Welcome to our Living Good Food Nation Lab
Our Living Good Food Nation Lab vision is to foster and empower the strong, critically informed community of practice for food systems transformation in Scotland, provide essential analytical support to Scottish Local Authorities and Health Boards with their first Local Good Food Nation Plans, and undertake research into the enablers and ways of working needed to bring the Good Food Nation vision to life.
Message from Professor Brennan
Principal Investigator and Lab Director

Through my working on, and across, different food policy issues, and years advocating, as Chair of the Scottish Food Coalition, for the new Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act, I am proud, excited and just a bit terrified to have the privilege of leading our new Living Good Food Nation Lab.
We are here to work with, and provide essential support to, relevant Scottish authorities, the new statutory Scottish Food Commission, and the wider Scottish community of practice for food systems transformation during the initial rollout period (2023-2027) of the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022, and specifically to provide support with the development of the first Local Good Food Nation Plans.
Our transdisciplinary consortia (including our 6 new full time Research Fellows) come from an eclectic array of disciplinary, policy, professional and civil society backgrounds. We will draw on our collective expertise, resources and creativity to support you in building your connections, competencies, confidence and comfort in systems thinking and kickstart your Good Food Nation journey.
Our work will evolve with, and be responsive to, the Good Food Nation process and its key actors meeting relevant authorities where you are in your Good Food Nation journey with all the associated challenges, resource constraints and statutory pressures you face. We will explore the barriers to, and enablers of, food systems transformation across national and local government and with, and in, communities across Scotland. We will create spaces for listening to, connecting with, and networking between, key actors and curate learning opportunities to support and empower our community of practice.
We look forward to welcoming you to, supporting you through, and inspiring your involvement in, food systems transformation in Scotland.