Research Profile
Dr Mara Miele
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 79121
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Address:Room: 2.77, Glamorgan Building
Qualifications
Final degree (Laurea) in Agricultural Economics (Magna Cum Laude) at Pisa University (Italy), (1984).
PhD in Social Sciences (dissertation in sociology) at Wageningen University, (2001).
Research Interests
Post-humanism; Human/non-human animals’ relationships; Food consumption practices; Theories and Principles of sustainable consumption.
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Selected Projects
Selected Publications
- Between Food and Flesh: How Animals are Made to Matter (and Not to Matter) Within Food Consumption Practices
- The Taste of Happiness: Free Range Chicken
- When Foods become Animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in Care-full practices of consumption
- CittàSlow: Producing Slowness against the Fast Life
Additional Information
Recent News
Welfare Quality Report Series Complete
The series of Welfare Quality Reports (19 vols) has now been completed. Individual reports are available for download.
New Report on Consumers' Attitude to Animal Welfare
Miele, M. (2010) 'Report concerning consumer perceptions and attitudes towards farm animal welfare' Official Experts Report EAWP (task 1.3), Uppsala: Uppsala University.
This report is an official deliverable of the EU VII Framework project European Animal Welfare Platform.
Food Programme on BBC Radio 4
Mara participated in the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on Sunday 21st February, which looked at the growing demand for halal meat in Britain. The programme can be heard again on BBC iPlayer Console - Food Programme: Halal.
Press Release from Dialrel on Recommendations for Good Practice
The Dialrel project has now ended and the final document, Improving Animal Welfare during Religious Slaughter, Recommendations for Good Practice, is now available.
Letter to NewScientist about Religious Slaughter in Europe and the EU project Dialrel
A letter sent to NewScientist has been published in the Opinion session of the issue 2377 on November 4th, 2009 with the title 'Meat for a ritual'.