Cross-cutting social science research
Cross-cutting research focuses on issues that affect multiple policy areas and/or are multidisciplinary in nature.
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Biannual public attitudes tracker survey
The Agency conducts a tracking survey among consumers, in order to monitor changes in consumer attitudes towards the Agency and food-related issues.
Interviews exploring regulation cultures and behaviours
A small number of in-depth interviews were carried out to add to the Agency’s understanding of what works to secure regulatory compliance. This was accompanied by a short paper on the implications of this research, and related research, for the Agency’s work.
Citizens' Forums: Earned Recognition
The national citizens’ forums explored consumers’ views about changes to food business regulation under the proposed 'Earned Recognition' scheme.
Assessment of the COT uncertainty framework: a social science perspective
This evaluation provides a social science perspective on a framework for assessing and communicating uncertainty produced by the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT). It evaluates existing research to consider how people understand uncertainty and how this affects the framework.
Evidence review on regulation cultures and behaviours
The Food Standards Agency commissioned a review of evidence to understand what works to secure regulatory compliance.
Towards partnership: an analysis of the literature on organisational change
This research seeks to deepen our understanding of partnership models in order to support the Agency's incident prevention policy makers developing more effective partnerships with key industry stakeholders.
Alternatives to enforcement – working in partnership on mycotoxins
The project objectives were to evaluate the potential for a mycotoxin partnership between industry and enforcing authorities and scope out the role, composition and aims of such a partnership.
The 'Food and You' survey
Food and You is an annual survey that collects robust quantitative data to allow us to compare attitudes and behaviours between different groups within the population, and how these change over time.
Food technologies: findings from the 2008 British Social Attitudes survey
The report describes the findings from an FSA-funded module of questions on food technologies in the 2008 British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey. The module also included four questions on genetically modified (GM) food that were asked in the BSA survey in 1999 and 2003.
Public attitudes to emerging food technologies
A literature review to consolidate knowledge, from the UK and beyond, on public opinion about emerging food technologies, such as genetically modified food and crops, cloning, nanotechnologies, irradiation, functional foods, synthetic biology and novel food processes