Anne Touboulic is Associate Professor and a member the Food Systems Institute at the University of Nottingham (UK). Anne has an interdisciplinary background in the social sciences and her research is inherently boundary-spanning. Her research interests lie at the intersection of supply chain management, socio-ecological transitions, and organisational and critical theory with a primary focus on driving change towards more ecologically resilient and socially equitable production and consumption networks. Anne’s research primarily focuses on issues related to the transition to sustainable food systems, and her hope and purpose is to foster change through research and activism. She is passionate about engaged approaches to research, which enable collaborating with stakeholders and changing practice. Anne has worked on different facets of the sustainability agenda in food systems using participatory as well as other qualitative approaches. She has collaborated with several organisations and external stakeholders across various sectors, including large multinationals, family businesses and public sector bodies.
Anne’s recent research has primarily focused on adopting critical approaches to explore the transition to more ecologically harmonious and inclusive practices in production and consumption networks, and on the question of marginalised voices in global and local food systems. This includes different streams of work on the implications and limits of the corporate discourse on sustainability, on food deserts, and on rural communities and farmers. Other projects include using multimodal critical discourse analysis to explore concepts of food labour and value and the role of technology, unpacking the role of multistakeholder initiatives in the governance of grand challenges. Anne is also involved in work around the development of an outreach and educational agenda around reconnecting consumers to food and food producers.
She has co-authored a monograph with Paul Nieuwenhuis and Daniel Newman entitled ‘Sustainable Production, Consumption and Supply Chain Management’, which offers an ecologically focused and critical perspective reframing the discussion on the socio-ecological transitions within the global economic system.
Her work has been published in journals across different management fields including Work, Employment and Society, Human Relations, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences and the European Journal of Operational Research. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management and Senior Editor at the open access journal M@n@gement. Anne is a member of the executive committee of the EurOMA Forum on Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains.