Isabel Fletcher

Isabel Fletcher is a Senior Research Fellow in Food Policy and Systems Thinking at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Business. She leads the Policy Unit of the Wellcome-funded Living Good Food Nation Lab project and serves as a co-investigator on the UKRI-funded TRADE project, focusing on livestock systems transformation. Her work bridges science technology and innovation studies with sociology, food policy, and interdisciplinary research.

• Key Roles: Project leader (Living Good Food Nation Lab), Co-investigator (TRADE project), Co-convenor of Food Researchers in Edinburgh (FRIED).
• Teaching: Guest lectures on food policy and interdisciplinary research for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including 'The Social Life of Food'.

Her research addresses complex social problems like unhealthy diets and environmental impacts of food systems through qualitative methodologies, emphasizing interactions between policymakers, industry, and nutrition research.