About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

Timeline

Open call for entries

Autumn 2021

Entry deadline

Autumn 2021

Entries shortlisted

Autumn 2021

Pitches

Winter 2021

Prototyping

Winter 2021

Showcase

Spring 2022

To improve our health, we need to make healthy food more accessible and affordable for everyone. What surrounds us shapes our opportunity to be healthy and our lives are saturated with unhealthy food. And in many of our neighbourhoods there’s a drought of healthy options.

InGAME and Nesta have identified the possible value of applying video game engine technology and game design techniques to develop virtual environments that help us better understand how our surroundings shape our access to healthy and more affordable food options.

Team

Frances Bain

Frances Bain

Frances Bain

Mission Manager (Scotland), healthy life mission

Frances is Nesta’s mission manager for Scotland working on the healthy life mission and based with the Scotland team in Edinburgh.

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Deborah Fox

Deborah Fox

Deborah Fox

Director of Creative Innovation

Deborah leads Nesta's Arts practice.

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Parita Doshi

Parita Doshi

Parita Doshi

Deputy Director, healthy life mission

Her team is focused on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in the UK.

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Adam Lang

Adam Lang

Adam Lang

Head of Nesta Scotland

Adam led the work of Nesta in Scotland, working across missions, practices and partnerships to deliver impact against our strategic objectives in Scotland.

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