Ollie Chesworth

Ollie’s main research interests include how food support sites are formed and organised through practice arrays. His work addresses the role of connection, value and trust in space and how they constrain and open up everyday practices. His work focuses on how everyday food insecurity can be addressed in developed economies where the dominant mode of food production is based on commercial exchange.

Ollie’s current research interrogates how people in food insecurity cope with the pressures of food price inflation. He seeks to understand how everyday practices of coping and food consumption are changed during periods of inflated food prices. As such, Ollie has spent multiple years conducting research in the Midlands and North of England, running workshops, conducting interviews and deploying ethnographically informed research techniques to move our understanding of food insecurity beyond crisis management and toward building more socially just food futures.

Ollie has developed a specialism in qualitative research and creative methodological approaches. Ollie has worked to develop innovative research methods to ethically engage with people facing food insecurity and to foster meaningful conversations about loneliness and possible futures.