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Dr. Hillary J. Shaw serves as a Visiting Fellow at De Montfort University's Leicester Castle Business School within the Faculty of Business and Law. Previously, he held academic positions at the University of Southampton (researching Tesco's community impacts), University of Leeds, and Audencia Nantes Business School in France. His expertise bridges food systems, economic geography, and social justice through interdisciplinary analysis of consumer behavior, retail dynamics, and spatial inequality.
He holds a BA Hons from the University of Lancaster (1992) and a PhD from the University of Leeds (2004), which examined the economics, geography, and sociology of food consumer choice and obesity, focusing on food desert evolution.
Dr. Shaw's research centers on sustainable economic development, austerity-driven inequality, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and global-local food system integration. He investigates how supermarket expansion (particularly Tesco) affects community health, diet accessibility, and socio-spatial justice. His work combines economic geography with sociological frameworks to address obesity drivers, food policy gaps, and ethical business practices in retail supply chains.
Analysis of his 2014-2019 publications reveals a trajectory from empirical food desert studies toward systemic CSR critiques in global food supply chains. Key themes include regulatory effectiveness, supermarket power dynamics, philosophical foundations of ethical business, and austerity's health impacts. His work consistently addresses sustainable feeding challenges for a growing global population through interdisciplinary lenses.
Affiliated with the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA), Dr. Shaw maintains www.fooddeserts.org, a top 1% global resource providing historical socio-economic data, country profiles, and choropleth maps on food deserts. Attracting 3,500 monthly visitors, it serves as a vital teaching and research tool for understanding food access inequities worldwide.
