Yasmin is the Research Assistant for the UK case study of the ESRC-funded Digitalising Food Assistance project. She received her MA in Anthropology of Food at SOAS, University of London, and her BA in Political Science from Stanford University. Her research has previously focused on food systems and commodification in Tunisia.
Susanne is the Principal Investigator of the same project. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre and researches the political dynamics of food in situations of conflict, food and humanitarian crisis, and has also analysed migration and asylum policies. She has worked mostly in the Horn of Africa, often Sudan, but increasingly also in Europe.
Iris is a Postdoctoral Researcher who has worked on the UK case study for the ESRC-funded project that analyses the effect of digitalising food assistance. Her research examines digital public service delivery, digital inclusion, citizenship and integration, and critical user-experience (UX) research.