News

  1. What’s been happening in FoodRisC?

    6/4/2012
    An update on FoodRisC activities over the first 18 months of the project.
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  2. Podcast: Dr Wim Verbeke – Ghent University, Belgium

    7/3/2012
    Dr Wim Verbeke, Professor of Agro-Food Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at Ghent University, discusses FoodRisC research dealing with the conceptualisation of food risks, benefits and crises.
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  3. Podcast: Dr Julie Barnett – Brunel University

    20/12/2011
    In this interview Dr Julie Barnett, reader in healthcare research at Brunel University, talks about her work in the FoodRisC project developing the Vizzata tool.
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  4. Podcast: Aine Regan - University College Dublin

    30/11/2011
    Aine Regan is a PhD student in the FoodRisC project. In this interview she gives an update on her work analysing traditional and social media coverage of the 2008 Irish dioxin crisis and what is next in the pipeline for her.
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  5. Using social media to ensure risk is reported accurately

    19/4/2011
    Social media can often be seen as the more fun side of communication; A way to have more fluid interactions with people. But when it comes to communicating risks social media may offer great benefits reports Nathan Gray, Foodnavigator.
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  6. FoodRisC at the Society for Risk Analysis Conference

    19/4/2011
    On Monday 6 June at 13.30-17.00, the FoodRisC project will present at the Society for Risk Analysis Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
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  7. FoodRisC publishes new leaflet

    16/3/2011
    FoodRisC has just published its new leaflet where you can read about the project and what it aims to achieve.
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  8. PRESS RELEASE: Evaluating new media as a means to communicate food risks & benefits to consumers across Europe

    20/12/2010
    The FoodRisC project funded by the EU under FP7 will create a communication toolkit and ‘best practice’ recommendations to help EU wide organisations improve their communication, information and education services to the public.
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  9. Bridging communication divides on food risk and benefit issues

    16/12/2010
    Dr Aine McConnon explains the novel research into improving communication of food risks and benefits throughout the EU and how the explosion of social media networks may influence traditional approaches to this increasingly important field.
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  10. Evaluating perceptions and communication of food risks & benefits across Europe

    8/12/2010
    Consumers are constantly faced with new information regarding the health and safety of their food. However, recent evidence suggests consumers remain concerned over their food supply. Understanding current barriers to communicating the risks and benefits of food and identifying potential remedies for such challenges are the objectives of the European Commission-funded project FoodRisC. This project seeks to produce a practical toolkit that enables effective and balanced food risk communication.
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