Biography

Jonas House is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton (UK). His research investigates eating and dietary change from a sociological and geographic perspective. He is interested in how food practices are established, maintained and changed, with a particular focus on shifts in food consumption: for example, novel foods becoming established, foods travelling to new places, shifting public tastes, or changing notions of what ‘food’ actually is. His current research explores how particular things become classified, culturally and practically, as ‘food’, and how this changes over space and time. It focuses on a number of case studies, including practices of meat eating and meat replacement in Singapore.

He visited LKYCIC from 9 Sept to 11 Nov 2026 as Visiting Researcher.

Education

• PhD Human Geography, University of Sheffield, 2018
• MRes Sociology, Planning & Policy (Distinction), Sheffield Hallam University, 2012
• BA Sociology (First Class), Sheffield Hallam University, 2009

Selected publications

• Shen, Julia; House, Jonas; de Vries, Jasper; Poortvliet, Marijn. (2025). More than bees and flowers: Understanding public perceptions of biodiversity in the context of food production and consumption. Agriculture and Human Values.
• Praasterink, Frederike; Beers, PJ; Hassink, Jan; House, Jonas; van der Horst, Hilje. (2025). Assessing ongoing sustainability transitions: The state of food system transition in the Netherlands. NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences.
• House, Jonas; Davis, Natalie; Dermody, Brian; van der Horst, Hilje, Praasterink, Frederike; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid. (2024). The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions. Futures. 
• House, Jonas; Brons, Anke; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; van der Horst, Hilje. (2024). What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation. Agriculture and Human Values.
• House, Jonas. (2019). Modes of eating and phased routinisation: Insect-based food practices in the Netherlands. Sociology.
• House, Jonas. (2019). Insects are not ‘the new sushi’: Theories of practice and the acceptance of novel foods. Social & Cultural Geography.
• House, Jonas. (2018). Insects as food in the Netherlands: Production networks and the geographies of edibility. Geoforum.
• House, Jonas. (2018). Sushi in the United States, 1945-1970. Food and Foodways.

• House, Jonas. (2016). Consumer acceptance of insect-based foods in the Netherlands: Academic and commercial implications. Appetite.