Rounaq’s expertise lies in in human factors research and its application to sustainability and Net Zero challenges within the agri-food sector. Their research focusses on human geography, with a particular interest in integrating social sustainability focussed interventions within the Net Zero and food insecurity realm, using mostly user-centred and citizen science methods. Dr Nayak has a particular interest in food aid programmes (e.g., food banks, community hubs, community kitchens, larders, pantries and other such entities). They are an Early Career Researcher and have been awarded the prestigious British Academy Grant (2022-2024) along with other grants to carry out exploratory studies in the agri-food sector to explore food poverty, food safety culture and forced labour within the global agri-food sector. Dr Nayak frequently contributes to academic journals and has contributed to Policy Briefings and Calls for Evidence on the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on food security by the UK Parliament.
Dr Rounaq Nayak
(Lecturer in Sustainability)
Areas of expertise
- 3D printing
- 3D printing and intellectual property
- amusements
- ancient telescope
- animation
- anthropology
- assistive technology
- BAFTA Albert in Education partnership
- biological signs of stress
- blockchain
- blockchain and intellectual property
- Booker prize
- brain injury
- British Archaeology
- celestial alignment
- climate change
- coastal erosion
- comics
- cortisol
- cultural analysis
- dementia care
- dementia therapy
- Diffusion tensor Imaging
- digital business
- disabled technology
- drug analysis
- e-readers
- e-reading
- entrepreneurship
- fairgrounds
- female comics
- feminist theory
- financial scams
- flooding
- forensic analysis
- fruits and vegetables
- gender studies
- geophysics
- girls and comics
- gothic comics
- governance of bodies
- Greek Archaeology
- healthy eating
- hidden voices
- influencers
- Innovation
- Kindle
- learning innovation
- legal high
- Lesion analysis
- magazines in the digital age
- marine biologist
- marine climate change
- national centre for computer animation
- NCCA
- never let me go
- NPS
- omega-3 oils and depression
- organisational image and legitimacy
- Oscars
- overfishing
- parody
- parody and intellectual property
- participatory research
- postnatal depression
- postnatal depression in men
- protein intake in older adults
- Pyramids
- reading on kindle
- remains of the day
- reminiscence therapy
- resorts
- robot carers
- Russian Archaeology
- scamming
- seaside
- social identity
- social media influencers
- social work
- sociology
- solar panels
- sport consumption
- sport fandom
- sports mega-events
- stop and search
- stress diagnosis
- stress hormone
- sugar reduction
- sweet taste
- tank corrosion
- tank protection
- technology in learning
- technology in teaching
- urban spaces
- VFX
- Vlochos