Founding member 01
To be confirmed
Founding Pulse Pod · Active
Vitagri's own working group, focused on soil-to-human-health evidence in UK farming systems. Same workflow the founding cohort is being recruited to do — themed preferences, shared catalogue lens, discoveries published as news or insights to the wider Vitagri network.
Pod members
The Vitagri Research Pod is staffed by members of the wider Vitagri research team. Member naming is being confirmed — each profile lands as soon as the contributor has confirmed their consent to be publicly named.
Founding member 01
To be confirmed
Founding member 02
To be confirmed
Founding member 03
To be confirmed
Member naming: The Vitagri research team includes nineteen contributors across farming, nutrition, medicine and policy — see the full team here →. The pod's named line-up lands here as each member confirms their consent to be publicly attributed to the pod.
Themed preferences
A pod's themed preferences calibrate the Pulse Brain catalogue to its research focus. The Vitagri Research Pod is configured for soil-to-human-health evidence in UK working farms, with weight given to systematic reviews and farm-trial data over commentary.
Sector focus
Soil · nutrient density · human health
Geography
UK & EU temperate
Tier weighting
T1 & T2 prioritised; T3 surfaced; T4 archived
Study designs
Systematic reviews, RCTs, farm trials
Recent insights
A sample of insights surfaced by the pod and published to the wider Vitagri network. Browse the full set on the Insights index.
Why soil biology, not the certification label, is the primary determinant of nutritional density in food crops.
Bionutrient Institute crop data 2018–2020 shows the spread within a single crop type is far wider than between varieties.
Diet-related chronic disease costs the UK £268bn per year; the case for soil-to-health intervention at the food-system level.
How the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 settlement maps onto nutrient-dense food production at scale.
Currently working on
Updated as the pod's research line moves. A snapshot of what's in flight right now, not a roadmap.
May 2026 · Soil-microbiome-to-gut-health axis
The pod is working through the soil-microbiome → plant-microbiome → gut-microbiome axis evidence: which links are strongly supported (T1/T2), which are indicative (T3) and where the catalogue still has thin coverage. Output will land as a Weekly Bulletin issue and a Pulse Brain insight.
If your team's research line maps to soil, nutrition or human health, the Research Partner programme is where to start.
Apply to the founding cohort →