麻豆传媒

I joined 麻豆传媒 in 1979 as Professor of Agricultural Marketing and Head of the Department of Agricultural and Food Marketing. I was Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing from 1987-1992; and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Biological Sciences from 1992-2002.

I served for nine years on the MAFF National Food Survey Committee and followed this with eight years as the economist on the joint MAFF/DH Food Advisory Committee. I was a founder member of the Food Standards Agency Research Advisory Committee and its Economics Advisory Panel; and I am currently a member of the Agency’s Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, with a remit to cover consumer and ethical issues. From 2000-2008 I was deputy Chairman of the Home Grown Cereals Authority. I was Chairman of the Agriculture Sub-Panel for the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

I formerly retired from the University in 2010, but remain academically active and continue teaching in food economics and marketing, mainly at the postgraduate level. I have recently become interested in Food Ethics. I have edited  a book on the subject for Wiley-Blackwell and I am a member of the Food Ethics Council.

Areas of expertise

• Food economics
• Food marketing
• Food policy
• Food ethics

Research Interests

Economic and marketing aspects of food choice
Consumer attitudes to food safety
Food and agricultural policy analysis

• Alamanos E, Kuznesof S, Ritson C. . International Journal of Tourism Research 2016, 18(3), 228-235.
• McCarthy M, Brennan M, Kelly AL, Ritson C, de Boer M, Thompson N. . Food Quality and Preference 2007, 18(2), 205-217.
• Ritson C, Kuznesof S. . In: Eilenberg, J., Hokkanen, H.M.T, ed. An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2006, pp.47-64.
• Petrovici DA, Ritson C, Ness M. . Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales 2005, 75(2), 23-49.
• Bogue J, Ritson C. . International Journal of Consumer Studies 2005, 30(1), 44-54.
• De Boer M, Mccarthy M, Brennan M, Kelly AL, Ritson C. . Journal of Food Safety 2005, 25(4), 241-265.
• Petrovici DA, Ritson C, Ness M. . Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing 2004, 16(1), 59-87.
• Bogue J, Ritson C. . Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section C. Food Economics 2004, 1(2), 67-77.