LEAP conference 2025

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New LEAP conference to be held in 2025

Date posted: 5 December 2024

 

We are excited to announce that the LEAP conference will be returning to Oxford in 2025! 

Taking place at Lady Margaret Hall on Tuesday 8 April 2025, LEAP will once again welcome researchers working on aspects of meat and dairy production and consumption to consider its effects on population health, the economy, society and the environment. The LEAP conference aims to build a community of researchers in this field to share evidence and tools to inform action. 

Current worldwide food consumption practices are unsustainable. In particular, the food system is responsible for more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions. This food system is also having adverse effects on both planetary and human health. 

The LEAP conference is an interdisciplinary event and we welcome researchers from multiple disciplines and approaches, as well as those at different career stages. 

Registration will open in February but the call for papers is now open.

The LEAP conference is sponsored by the Oxford Martin programme on the Future of Food.

 

Call for papers

Abstracts must directly relate to the themes of the LEAP project. These included: how future trends and policies on meat and dairy impact health; the social and political context within which decisions are made; the health effects of meat and dairy consumption; and the environmental effects of meat and dairy production and consumption.

We are eager for researchers at all levels to participate, especially PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.

There will be opportunities for both short oral presentations and posters (A1/A0, portrait format). If the total number of abstracts received requesting oral presentations exceeds the spaces available, we will offer a poster as an alternative. There will be prizes (1 x oral; 1 x poster). 

Please send the following information as a Word document to: leap@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk by Friday 14 February 2025.

1. Name and affiliation (if any)

2. Email

3. Paper title

4. Brief abstract (300 words)

5. Preference for oral or poster presentation

Successful candidates will be notified by 7 March 2025. 

Hybridity

We will be holding oral and poster presentations in person, in Oxford. These will not be available online. The plenary sessions will be recorded and available online following the event.

Contact 

For any queries or further information, please contact the Future of Food programme manager, Lexi Earl: lexi.earl@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk 

 

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