Coral Yu Han
About
My research project
Everyday Food Consumption and Food Wastehis project investigates the complex relationships between urban consumers' perceptions of food value, edibility, and the generation of food waste during consumption stages, with a focus on Kunming, a bustling and ethnically diverse city in China.
Supervisors
his project investigates the complex relationships between urban consumers' perceptions of food value, edibility, and the generation of food waste during consumption stages, with a focus on Kunming, a bustling and ethnically diverse city in China.
My qualifications
Affiliations and memberships
ResearchResearch interests
- Environment, food, and sustainability
- Material culture and consumption
- Identity, taste, and practice theories
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Qualitative and ethnographic research
Research interests
- Environment, food, and sustainability
- Material culture and consumption
- Identity, taste, and practice theories
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Qualitative and ethnographic research
Publications
Additional publications
American/Canadian Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Canada. 11/2023
Presented a working paper titled ‘Sensory Ethnography in the Research of Consumer Food Waste: A Case Study of Kunming (China) Middle-Class Consumers’ in the panel: Communities of Consumption
Lancaster Intellectual Party, UK 06/2023
Discussion and Presentation with PhD researchers and early career scholars
Consumer Culture Theory Conference, 06/2022
Poster presentation on a paper titled ‘Kunming (China) Middle-Class’ Daily Food Consumption Practices: Navigating Intersectionality and Sustainability’ for the CCT annual conference
Canadian Association for Food Studies Annual Conference, 05/2022
Presentation on a paper titled ‘Technology-Assisted Sustainable Food Practices in Kunming (China)’ for the 2022 CAFS Conference
British Sociological Association, UK-Hybrid 06/2021
Presented a paper titled ‘Everyday Food Practices: Food Consumption and Waste in Middle-Class Households of Kunming (China)” at the Food Study Group Conference.