About
Dr Jenny Baverstock has been part of the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences since April 2018 having worked previously within the University of Southampton's Faculty of Health Sciences (from 2014), and previously within the Faculty of Medicine (NIHR Clinical Research Network).
Jenny's expertise is on the analysis of food systems, nutrients and trade and is a co-lead on the FAIR project funded by UKRI and the Novel and Underutilised Crop Network (NUCNet) funded by BBSRC. She has supervised at the Masters and PhD level.
Jenny is also Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences lead on the Engaged University Steering Group supporting and championing public and community engagement across the Faculty and leads Public Engagement activities including outreach activities within the School of Biological Sciences fostering a number of important external collaborations with strategic influence. She also has led/co-led a number of funded public engagement projects, including Growing Wild Citizens @School, Mapping the Southampton Food System and the Southampton Food Partnership.
From 2019-2022, Jenny was a Clean Air Champion (Co-Champion) of the UKRI Clean Air Strategic Priority Fund Clean Air SPF. This was a £42 million area of funding for UKRI. She was also a member of the STFC Air Quality Network Steering Committee from 2019-2022 and the Clean Air SPF cross-council Award Panel and Steering Committee.
Previous research areas have involved palliative care and urgent care in the NHS and primary care and public health and biomedical research (biochemistry) and has worked in several research and research management roles (NHS, Medical Research Council). Her thesis research focussed on signal transduction systems.
Additional reading:
Mapping Southampton's Food Health