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Cristina Violante - PhD Placement in DEFRA: Food and Innovation

Cristina Violante
Cristina Violante

Cristina spent three months on a placement with DEFRA in the Food Strategy and Innovation teams. Her role was to map the UK’s agri-tech innovation landscape, identifying and mapping all the stakeholders involved in the UK’s agri-tech sector. She then analysed their involvement in the agri-tech sector and how much funding they provide or have; assessed the different programmes and funding available for agri-tech innovation; cross-checked their relationship with the previously identified priority themes for agri-tech innovation in the UK; and researched the impact that the different funding schemes and programmes have had in the agri-tech sector, through different projects and case studies.

“Doing this placement was a challenging yet very rewarding experience, professionally and personally. I got the chance to immerse myself into different very interesting topics that were outside my area of expertise. I learned from the experience of diverse professional and highly committed civil servants. I also had the chance to engage with food industry and business entrepreneurs and to understand the role they play and how they influence policy. I realised the important role that research plays in some policy areas and themes, such as innovation and food systems.”

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