Purposes and Scope

The Australian Food, Society and Culture Network is an umbrella research network. Its main purposes are:

1. To serve as a network and forum that facilitates research exchange, collaboration and synergy between researchers interested in the social and cultural aspects of food and eating in Australia across a range of disciplines.
2. To foster international links with similar networks in other countries for research exchange and sharing.
   To this purpose, the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of the network will be reflected in several thematic groups representing our current membership's research interests. They are as follows:
   
   1. Food and Socioeconomic Disadvantage
   2. Families, Relationships and Food
   3. Gender, the Body and Food
   4. Food and Ethics
   5. Methodologies in Food Research
   6. Food Production and Supply Chains
   7. Food Policy, Politics and Governance
   8. Social Histories of Food
   9. Mass Media, Commodity Culture and Food
   10. Food and Consumption
   11. Food and Sensory Experience
   12. Food and Health
   13. Time in Culinary Culture
   14. Food, Race and Class

The thematic groups may meet individually, but the AFSCN organises a meeting once a year in an annual workshop/meeting where all the thematic groups can come together to present research and exchange ideas.