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Dr Emily Soh is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Food Politics and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute at NUS. She received her PhD (D.Phil in Urban Planning) from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. She has worked on cross-cutting issues including ageing and the city, transport, and food systems. Emily’s foray into food studies began when she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she embarked on her research on food system transitions and their normative and value-based facets. Broadly, she is interested in exploring the socio-ecological dimensions of food system transitions. Emily’s research at ARI focuses on emerging discourses and practices in Singapore’s food system including citizen-led food initiatives, urban food commons, food rescue, and reimagining pathways to food security.