Rate My Professor Rory Padfield

Padfield's research examines supply chain and natural resource governance, sustainable consumption and production, and corporate sustainability across business scales, with a political ecology lens on ethics, social and environmental responsibility, and local-global political economy. Key focuses include adoption of sustainability standards by small and medium-sized food manufacturers in Malaysia and Indonesia, sustainability impacts of water commercialization in Malaysian utilities, palm oil traceability in UK supply chains, and peatland issues. He leads projects such as 'Empires of sustainability' investigating Sabah's sustainable palm oil policy for smallholder farmers, 'Flex crop traceability and sustainability' in UK catering supply chains, 'Sustainability Stories' on communication in creative industries, and 'Food on Film', a community-led filmmaking initiative on Bradford food sustainability. As Programme Leader for the MSc Sustainability and Business and Co-Research Lead for Business and Organisations for Sustainable Societies (BOSS), he teaches on the Environment and Business BA, MSc Sustainability and Consultancy, and MSc Sustainability and Business. Notable publications include co-editing A Research Agenda for Sustainability and Business (Edward Elgar, 2022), 'Patterns and Causes of Food Waste in the Hospitality and Food Service Sector' (Sustainability, 2019), and 'Conceptual framework for the study of food waste generation and prevention in the hospitality sector' (Waste Management, 2016), contributing to over 2600 citations on Google Scholar.