Welcome
DR. BEE FARRELL FOOD + HEALTH EDUCATOR
I have worked as creative educator and consultant on eight large food + health research projects, and numerous smaller ones since 2009, with academic. qualifications (Ph.D. in social anthropology and masters in education and in the anthropology of food), plus training in culinary arts, gut and brain health, culinary medicine, teaching, food as medicine and health and hygiene. I design and facilitate interactive, multi-sensory and creative research and learning projects for a wide range of clients and collaborators (e.g., individual mindful cooking sessions, HE teaching, public facing events, community or academic research projects with universities, businesses, charities, councils, and schools).
THE STILL ROOM STUDIO HUMAN+NATURE DESIGN RESEARCH
The Still Room Studio takes its name from stillness as a state of calm and freedom and in recognition of the ancient Still Room – part kitchen part science lab – where nature-based knowledge was put into practice to keep communities well. I am part of a collection of interdisciplinary design researchers who give insight into complex relationships by curating interaction design, and participatory research. In collaboration with our clients, we project manage goal-focused overviews – in the form of reports, teaching, talks, graphics, events, and exhibitions. This re-conceptualises today’s challenges by stimulating the interface between human + nature centric perspectives to focus on designing a healthy future
MAKING CHANGE
VALUES | Healthy people and planet
CONSUMPTION
BUYING | What we buy changes us and our world
BEING TOGETHER
GATHERING | Being in company keeps us well
With over twenty years of applied research and creative practice with epidemiologists, scientists, care farmers, urban growers, museums, community wellbeing projects, schools, architects, design companies and universities, I mix theory with practice. I have masters' degrees in Education (Anglia Ruskin University, 2009), Anthropology of Food (SOAS, University of London 2015) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Kent, 2023), with a continuing commitment to education on health, food and sustainability.
Clients & Collaborators include:
University of Manchester, Children’s National Railway Urban Park, Lowestoft Maritime Museum, Shucks Festival, Maximus Sustainable Fishing, Museum of English Rural Life, Museum of East Anglia, William Murray, Culture of the Countryside HLF project, British Land, Sustain, British Academy, Goodbrand, London Festival of Design, Phoenix Housing Association, AONB (Dedham Vale and Suffolk Coastal), Heritage Gardens Felixstowe and Suffolk Coastal County Council, Backroad books, Lewisham Council, Eastfeast’s Waveney project (heritage pigs, fish, honey and apples), Bee London, University of Aarhus, Church Street Neighbourhood Forum, Makemore Festival, Farrells, Regent's Place, Four Rain, Harper Collins, Real Food Market, RUAF Foundation, Food&, Selfridges, Springer Publishing, The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival, The New Craftsmen, The Offbeats, Binge, The Sustainable Food Trust, The Woodbridge Tide Mill, The University of East Anglia and the University of Kassel.