Anna Hawkins BA (Hons), PgCert, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Social Science
Summary
My professional background is in urban planning and regeneration. I teach subjects related to urban sustainability and placed-based health. My research interests include changing practices and processes to support sustainable and equitable resource consumption, ecological harm reduction and restoration. I undertake work in policy and project evaluation, content analysis, theories of change, indicator / outcome mapping and specialise in research design to explore and address poor policy outcomes.
About
I have recently completed my PhD in Social and Cultural Geographies of Food and Consumption at the University of Sheffield.
Teaching Interests
- Geographies of Consumption
- Sustainable Food Systems and Practices
- Urban Ecologies and Resilience
- Green Political Thought and Utopianism
Research
2024-2026 Nature Recovery Farming: Supporting the Transition, South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre.
Publications
Journal articles
Hawkins, A., & Rundle, R. (2024). School Food Hero and the Battle of the Food Foe: a story of public health policy, power imbalance and potential. Social Science and Medicine, 342. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116520
Hawkins, A. (2024). Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography. Qualitative Research. http://doi.org/10.1177/14687941231224590
Hawkins, A. (2023). Spatial barriers to the effective delivery of school food policy in UK primary schools: Findings from an Institutional Ethnography. People, Place and Policy Online, 17 (2), 59-81. http://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2023.5335632665
Castano Garcia, A., Ambrose, A., Hawkins, A., & Parkes, S. (2021). High consumption, an unsustainable habit that needs more attention. Energy Research and Social Science, 80. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102241
Parr, S., Hawkins, A., & Dayson, C. (2021). The Ethical Dilemmas of Food Banking: an Analysis of the More Than Food Programme. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 29 (3), 259-277. http://doi.org/10.1332/175982721X16246224734827
Beatty, C., Bennett, C., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Managing precarity: food bank use by low-income women workers in a changing welfare regime. Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research, 55 (5), 981-1000. http://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12707
Ambrose, A., Baker, W., Batty, E., & MacNair Hawkins, A. (2020). "I have a panic attack when I pick up the phone": experiences of energy advice amongst 'hard to reach' energy users. People Place and Policy Online, 14 (1), 58-64. http://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2019.3479427335
Hawkins, A., Sharpe, R., Spence, K., & Holmes, N. (2018). Inappropriate flushing of menstrual sanitary products. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management. https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/toc/jwama/0/0
Glentworth, J., Hawkins, A., Bennett, E., Webb, S., & Hammond, C. (n.d.). Nature Recovery Now: How the new UK Government needs to act to address the biodiversity crisis with five key priorities. People, Place and Policy Online.
Conference papers
Glentworth, J., Hammond, C., Hawkins, A., Webb, S., Bird, S., & Pilbeam, R. (2023). What does a transition to a nature-based economy look like to English upland farmers? [abstract only]. In XXIXth European Society for Rural Sociology Congress Crises and the futures of rural areas, Rennes, France, 3 July 2023 - 7 July 2023. https://esrs2023.institut-agro-rennes-angers.fr/program/2023-07-06/wg-24-rewilding-transformative-solution-rural-crises-across-europe
Hawkins, A., Ambrose, A., Parkes, S., Arbell, Y., Garcia, A.C., & Rafalowicz-Campbell, M. (2022). High consumers of energy and resources and the work of being wealthy: towards a research agenda. In ECEEE Summer Study 2022, Hyeres, France, 6 June 2022 - 11 June 2022. ECEEE: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2022/1-dynamics-of-consumption-less-is-more/high-consumers-of-energy-and-resources-and-the-work-of-being-wealthy-towards-a-research-agenda/
Book chapters
Ambrose, A., Castano Garcia, A., Hawkins, A., Parkes, S., & Arbell, Y. (2024). Uneven consumption and the work of being a high consumer. In Horne, R., Ambrose, A., Walker, G., & Nelson, A. (Eds.) Post Carbon Inclusion: transitions built on justice. (pp. 174-188). Bristol: Bristol University Press: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/post-carbon-inclusion
Ambrose, A., Hawkins, A., Parkes, S., Castano Garcia, A., Arbell, Y., & Speake, B. (2024). Uneven Consumption and the Work of Being a High Consumer. In Post Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice. Bristol University Press
Reports
Ambrose, A., Rafalowicz-Campbell, M., Castano Garcia, A., Hawkins, A., & Parkes, S. (2023). High consumption in the UK: an exploration of secondary data. Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/high-consumption-in-the-uk
Ambrose, A., Castano Garcia, A., Hawkins, A., Parkes, S., Rafalowicz-Campbell, M., & Smith, M. (2022). It’s high time to talk about the climate impacts of high consumers. Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/its-high-time-to-talk-about-the-climate-impacts-of-high-consumers
Ambrose, A., Baker, W., Batty, E., & Hawkins, A. (2019). Reaching the 'Hardest to Reach' with energy advice: final report - Executive Summary. Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/reaching-the-hardest-to-reach-with-energy-advice-final-report---executive-summary
Ambrose, A., Baker, W., Batty, E., & Hawkins, A. (2019). Reaching the 'Hardest to Reach' with energy advice: final report. Sheffield Hallam University. http://doi.org/10.7190/cresr.2019.8286642862
Presentations
Holmes, N., Hawkins, A., Simpson, S., & Wharton, L. (2021). Student experiences of virtual fieldwork learning opportunities [as a response to C-19]. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online
Buckley, B., Goldwood, M., Holmes, N., Dowey, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Producing a JEDI impact assessment and checklist for local field visits. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online
Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Learning about the outdoors, indoors: encouraging individual engagement with learning and the environment through assessment. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online
Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Giving the students their (anonymous) voices: encouraging engagement in online sessions. Presented at: Transforming Learning conference, Online
Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Learning about the outdoors, indoors: encouraging individual engagement with learning and the environment through assessment. Presented at: CHES Annual Forum (IES), Online
Holmes, N., & Hawkins, A. (2021). Giving the students their (anonymous) voices: encouraging engagement in online sessions. Presented at: CHES / IES Annual Forum, Online
Posters
Holmes, N., Hawkins, A., Simpson, S., & Wharton, L. (2021). Student experiences of virtual fieldwork learning opportunities [as a response to C-19]. Presented at: BSG Annual Meeting, Online
Other activities
I am interested in supervising undergraduate and post-graduate research projects and dissertations in the following areas:
- Geographies of food and consumption practice.
- Sustainable food systems.
- Environmental 'behaviour change'.
- Please contact me for an informal chat if you are interested in carrying out research in these areas.