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
Glentworth, J., Hawkins, A., Bennett, E., Webb, S., & Hammond, C. (2024). Nature Recovery Now: How the new UK Government needs to act to address the biodiversity crisis with five key priorities. People, Place and Policy, 18 (2), 69-81. http://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2024.7875874494
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
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.