Lisa Ackerley

Who is Lisa Ackerley?

Dr Lisa Ackerley is a British food safety expert.

In 1984 Ackerley gained a First Class Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Health from Bristol Polytechnic. Her thesis examined the survival of Campylobacter jejuni on kitchen surfaces and also uncovered that many GPs were unaware of the organism. This led to the publication of her first academic paper with Dr A Jones.

Ackerley went to work at Cherwell District Council in 1984 as an Environmental Health Officer. Following this, she moved to Thames Polytechnic where she became Senior Lecturer in Food Law and Practice, teaching on the undergraduate Environmental Health programme.

In 1990 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel to the USA and Canada to study concepts of HACCP. This involved visiting the Pilsbury factory in Minneapolis where HACCP was invented as part of the NASA space programme. She visited a number of cook-chill outlets, academics including Pete Snyder and spoke at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in Carolina.

Ackerley's PhD covered the subject of consumer awareness of food poisoning and food hygiene.