Kim Smith is an MSc Food Policy Graduate with Distinction (2021) from the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London. Currently Kim is working as Chair and Trustee of TastEd and as a Food Educator. Her 20-year career has featured varied experience across the UK food system including London Farmers Markets, Product Development for Sainsbury’s Supermarkets PLC and Burger King, Food Technologist for Firmenich and Northern Foods, setting up a GF events business, food writing and most recently developing and implementing a primary school food education programme into the curriculum. Kim is currently developing a PhD proposal examining how Food Literacy is addressed in primary schools. Her current research interests include primary school food education, primary school food policy and bringing food systems thinking to education. She is a member of the British Education Research Association and British Sociological Association.
Kim Smith is an MSc Food Policy Graduate with Distinction (2021) from the Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London. Currently Kim is working as Chair and Trustee of TastEd and as a Food Educator. Her 20-year career has featured varied experience across the UK food system including London Farmers Markets, Product Development for Sainsbury’s Supermarkets PLC and Burger King, Food Technologist for Firmenich and Northern Foods, setting up a GF events business, food writing and most recently developing and implementing a primary school food education programme into the curriculum. Kim is currently developing a PhD proposal examining how Food Literacy is addressed in primary schools. Her current research interests include primary school food education, primary school food policy and bringing food systems thinking to education. She is a member of the British Education Research Association and British Sociological Association.