Reading List

Start Here

These short documents are essential reading to get you started.

• University of Edinburgh *Sustainable Food Systems Policy 2014 Draft, 2016 Draft
• Nesta/Uscreates (2014) Food Stakeholder Research Report.

More Depth

You should definitely read and use some of the following documents, but the particular ones that you choose will depend on the specific details of your project.

Food issues at the University of Edinburgh

• Deniozou T (2015) Student Health and Lifestyle Survey, Healthy University Project, University of Edinburgh.
• The Russell Partnership (2014) Pollock Halls Nutrition Audit.
• University of Edinburgh Accommodation Services (2015) Catering News, Issue 14
• University of Edinburgh (2014) Student Engagement on Waste: Exploring Strategies on Recycling, Contamination, and Food Waste Reduction, Participation in Policy and Planning, School of Geoscience.

Design Thinking and Participatory Design

• Design Council (2007) 11 lessons: managing design in 11 global brands
• Merholz M (2013)The Double Diamond Model of Product Definition and Design
• Muller, M J (2003) Participatory design: the third space in HCI, chapter in Human-computer interaction: Development process, 4235.
• Spinzzi, C (2005) The methodology of participatory design, Technical Communication, 52(2), 163-174.
• Druin, A (2002) The role of children in the design of new technology, Behaviour and information technology, 21(1), 1-25.
• Grocki, M (2014) How to Create a Customer Journey Map

Designing for Change

• Darnton T and Horne J (2013) Influencing Behaviours: A User Guide to the ISM Tool, The Scottish Government.
• Garnett T, Mathewson S, Angelides P and Borthwick F (2015) Policies and actions to shift eating patterns: What works? A review of the evidence of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at shifting diets in more sustainable and healthy directions, Food Climate Research Network, University of Oxford.

Ethics, Privacy and Data Management

• Gray D E (2014) Research Ethics, Chapter 4, Doing research in the real world. Los Angeles, SAGE.
• Alcorn A M (2015) Research Ethics: Orientation. Course slides for Design for Informatics.
• Information Commissioner’s Office (2012) Anonymisation Code of Practice

Data Visualisation

• Few S (2009) Now You See It, Analytics Press
• Tufte E R (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press
• Makulec A (ND) Anatomy of a Graphic, chapter 14 of Data + Design
• Underwood J (2013) Data Visualization Best Practices (on Slideshare)
• School of Data From Data to Diagrams
• GOOD Infographics
• Visualisations that make no sense: WTF Visualizations
• Tactical Tech Guide to Visualisation Tools
• Resources for Data Driven Journalism

Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) Library

The FCRN’s Research Library summarises and hosts links to over 3,500 journal papers, reports and news articles representing nearly 10 years’ worth of research and discussion on food systems, climate and sustainability issues.