About me

Currently the NW project manager for Feedback Global's Regional Food Economy, developing new networks of sustainable food projects and promoting a circular economy approach to food surplus - using it to feed people, animals and the soil, with a particular focus on the North. She is currently engaged in creating the social enterprise Alchemic Kitchen, which converts might be wasted edibles into new products through working with individuals and community groups, especially military veterans, and those in recovery to learn kitchen skills and increase their social interaction.

Lucy is a sustainable food adviser for The Food Domain, a network partnership enabling new relationships to develop between academics, NGOs, communities, businesses and the public sector. Lucy covers a wide remit of food issues including food growing, food waste and surplus, food skills and education, food enterprise, food access and food for health. She is working on three research projects for the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield on food procurement, narratives around food banks and surplus and social isolation. She supports the Alexandra Rose Charity Rose Voucher project in Liverpool and runs the steering group.

Lucy is a research associate at the University of Liverpool, and a member of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. She is an external examiner for food and nutrition students at Liverpool John Moores University, and is involved with several N8 research projects. Lucy is an active participant in the Sustainable Food Cities Network in the UK. and co-founder of the Knowledge Quarter Sustainability Network.

Previously, Lucy held the post of Sustainable Food City Liverpool Coordinator for the Liverpool Food People project. Lucy studied English Literature & History of Art at the University of Leeds, followed by 10 years working in the food industry within London, before relocating home to Liverpool to spend 13 years as Operations Manager & Project Developer for environmental charity the National Wildflower Centre. She joined Liverpool Food People in 2014 and founded The Food Domain in 2017.

In her spare time, Lucy enjoys writing and tweeting about food, and making preserves as Grab Your Spoon. Lucy is based in Liverpool, UK.