“…With high expectations of accountability for public funding, research funders and society more broadly are requiring researchers to provide evidence of the social, cultural, environmental and economic returns from science (Gibbons, 1999;Bornmann, 2013;Dinsmore et al, 2014). Notwithstanding Midmore's conclusion, following a content analysis of the UK's 2014 REF Impact Case Studies, that researchers have "a nascent conservatism that focuses on research that can be shown to have impact, rather than research impact itself" (Midmore, 2017), providing such evidence is particularly important where food-related research is concerned. Food is at the heart of the SDGs (United Nations, 2015), with more than half of the 17 goals emphasising the need for a safe, nutritious and sustainable food supply (International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI], 2016).…”