Dr E J Roe

Dr E J Roe

University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Lecturer in Human Geography
Research group: Economy, Culture, Space
Location: 44/2072
Extension: 29222
Telephone: (023) 8059 9222
Fax: (023) 8059 3295
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Research interests

  1. Bodily cultural geographies of human-nonhuman relations
    • Commercialisation of the nonhuman: retailing and supply-chain cultures
    • Embodied consumption practices /Embodied stockperson practices
    • Farm animal welfare
    • Cross-species comparison of ethical practices of consent and welfare in clinical drug trials.
  2. Methodologies for researching the performative, material nonhuman
    • Critical ontologies for researching the nonhuman
    • Post-phenomenological interpretations of video empirical material.
  3. Theorising the corporeal nonhuman as naturecultures
    • Embodied Material Ethics
    • Affective geographies of care for the sentient nonhuman

Dr Emma Roe has over ten years experience of social science research in food and agriculture studies at the Universities of Bristol, the Open, Cardiff and currently Southampton.

Over the last 6 years she has specialised in the area of farm animal welfare through research in the UK, Hungary, Western Europe and China. She was a leading social scientist in the EU WelfareQuality® project 2004-2009, managing the UK and cross-European studies of the retail and food service sector study of foodstuffs with higher animal welfare standards. Additionally, she co-investigated an implementation study into the on-farm certification process and its flexibility to a change from resource-based to animal-based welfare measures.

Her work has received research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the European Commission. She has written peer-reviewed journal articles, book-chapters, reports and short articles on food consumption practices, the market for animal welfare-friendly foodstuffs and human relations to the animals we eat. She has presented research findings to industry and academic audiences, nationally and internationally.

She is on the UK Food Standards Agency register of Social Scientists.

She is on the RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Committee.

She is currently supervising PhD candidates Karolina Ronander-Taylor and Daniel Keech

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Research projects

  • Principle Investigator 'Constructing Quality' - UK part of UK/France comparison of how animal welfare is currently included, audited and developing in farm assurance schemes. Subcontracted from Prof Henry Buller, Exeter University. 63979 euros. Funding from EU Welfare Quality project. Jan-Dec 2008
  • Principle Investigator - Awarded - 'Negotiating post-Mao natures: a recent history of NGO involvement in improving farm animal husbandry in China' British Academy Small Grants Fund £5,530. To commence June 2007 to Dec 2008. http://culturalgeographerinchina.wordpress.com/
  • Principle Investigator. Cross-country study of welfare-friendly foodstuff in the food service sector. Work carried out in Norway, Italy, UK and the Netherlands. Includes product innovation work with Sodexho. 114,000 euros (30,820 euros for UK work). 'Funding from EU Welfare Quality project'. Jan-Dec 2007.

Biographical notes

Dr Emma Roe is currently Lecturer in Human Geography. She joined the School of Geography at the University of Southampton in 2007.

Qualifications

  • B.Sc Geography (Human and Physical) Reading 1998
  • Ph.D. Geography Bristol 2003

Details

  • 2001-2003 Fixed Term Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol University
  • 2003-2004 ESRC Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Geography Discipline, The Open University
  • 2004-2007 Research Associate on EU FP6 WelfareQuality research project, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University.
Teaching responsibilities for Dr E J Roe
Module title Module code Discipline Role
Geographies of Nature GEOG3041 Geography Course leader
Critical Human Geographies GEOG2008 Geography Tutor
Geographical Skills GEOG1007 Geography Tutor

Publications

Greenhough, Beth and Roe, Emma (2010) From ethical principles to response-able practice. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28, (1), 43-45. (doi:10.1068/d2706wse)
Roe, E.J. (2009) Human-nonhuman. In, Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 251-257.
pdfpdf Higgin, Marc and Roe, Emma (2009) Current strategies for animal welfare in the food service sector in Norway, UK and Italy. In, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina, Higgin, Marc and Roex, Joek (eds.) Farm Animal Welfare within the Supply Chain. Regulation, Agriculture and Geography. Cardiff, UK, Cardiff University, 215-280. (Welfare Quality Reports, 8 Part IV: Chapters 26-28).
pdfpdf Roe, Emma, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina, Higgin, Marc, van Huik, Marjolein and Cowan, Cathal (2009) Farm animal welfare in Hungary: a study of Hungarian producers, its food retail market and of Hungarian consumers. In, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina B., Higgin, Marc and Roex, Joek (eds.) Farm Animal Welfare within the Supply Chain. Regulation, Agriculture, and Geography. Cardiff, UK, Cardiff University, 145-214. (Welfare Quality Reports, 8 Part III Chapters 17-25).
pdf Roe, E. and Higgin, M. (2008) Ethical consumerism. How are caterers coping? Food Ethics, 3, (4), 4-7.
pdf Veissier, Isabelle, Butterworth, Andrew, Bock, Bettina and Roe, Emma (2008) European approaches to ensure good animal welfare. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 113, (4), 279-297. (doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2008.01.008)
pdf Roe, Emma and Higgin, Marc (2008) European meat and dairy retail distribution and supply networks: a comparative study of the current and potential markets for welfare-friendly foodstuffs in six European countries. In, Kjaernes, Unni, Bock, Bettina, Miele, Mara and Roex, Joek (eds.) Consumption, Distribution and Production of Farm Animal Welfare. Opinions and Practices within the Supply Chain. Cardiff, UK, Cardiff University, 129-256. (Welfare Quality Reports, 7 Part II, Chapters 10-14).
pdf Roe, Emma J., Murdoch, Jonathan and Miele, Mara (2008) Animals and ambivalence, governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector. In, Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (eds.) Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation. Oxford, UK, Routledge, 110-125.
pdf Roe, Emma J. and Buller, Henry (2008) Marketing farm animal welfare factsheet. Wageningen, Welfare Quality, 2pp.
pdf Roe, Emma. J and Marsden, T. (2007) Analysis of the retail survey of products that carry welfare- claims and of non-retailer led assurance schemes whose logos accompany welfare-claims. Cardiff, UK, Welfare Quality, 160pp.
msword Roe, E.J. and Higgin, M. (2006) The presence of animal-welfare friendly bodies: an organised or disorganised achievement in the food supply chain. In, Kaiser, Matthias and Lien, Marianne Elisabeth (eds.) Ethics and Politics of food. Wageningen, Wageningen Academic Publishers.
pdf Roe, Emma. J and Murdoch, Jonathan (2006) UK Market for Animal Welfare Friendly Products. Market Structure, Survey of Available Products and Quality Assurance Schemes. Cardiff, UK, Welfare Quality, 92pp. (1-902647-72-6)
Roe, Emma J. (2006) Things becoming food and the embodied, material practices of an organic food consumer. Sociologia Ruralis, 46, (2), 104-121. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00402.x)
pdf Roe, Emma J. and Greenhough, Beth (2006) Editorial: Towards a geography of bodily technologies. Environment and Planning A, 38, (3), 416-422. (doi:10.1068/a38514)
Roe, Emma J. (2006) Material connectivity, the immaterial and the aesthetic of eating practices: an argument for how genetically modified foodstuff becomes inedible. Environment and Planning A, 38, (3), 465-481. (doi:10.1068/a3835)
pdf Roe, Emma J., Murdoch, Jonathan and Marsden, T. (2005) The retail of welfare-friendly products: A comparative assessment of the nature of the market for welfare-friendly products in six European Countries. In, Science and Society improving animal welfare., Welfare Quality.
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