Dr Isabelle de Solier is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne who specialises in the study of food and gardening. She is the author of the best-selling book ‘Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture’ (Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2013) and co-editor of ‘Food Cultures’ (Cultural Studies Review, 2013). She received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for her current project ‘Community Gardening: A Nationwide Study’.
Isabelle has researched and published on:
• consumer behaviour and food (including food shopping and dining out)
• food trends (including 'foodies', Slow Food and molecular gastronomy)
• food media (including celebrity chefs, food television, amateur food bloggers, and audience perceptions and uses of food media)
• domestic food practices (including cooking)
• gardening (including community gardening)
She spends her spare time arranging flowers @thedoctorsflowers
Experience
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2016–presentARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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2013–2016Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Victoria University
Education
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Monash University, BA (Hons)
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The University of Melbourne, PhD
Publications
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2013Food and the Self, Book
Grants and Contracts
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2016Community Gardening: A Nationwide Study
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
- Melbourne
- Website
- Article Feed
- Joined
