Albert Boaitey
Albert Boaitey is a Lecturer in Global Agri-food Supply Chains at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University. Trained as an agricultural economist, he specializes in sustainable livestock systems, ethical food choice and food supply chain stakeholders’ net zero transitions. He holds a PhD from the University of Alberta.
Web page: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/people/profile/albertboaitey.html |
Arina Machine
Arina Machine is a second-year PhD student at the University of Leicester. She looks at remote sensing applications to identify agroforestry and quantify its carbon outputs across the United Kingdom. She is interested in the application of big data to solve environmental and agricultural questions. Outside of her studies she co-founded the AgriTech business AkoFresh in 2021.
Web page: le.ac.uk/people/arina-machine |
Ashraf Alkhtib
Ashraf Alkhtib has a PhD in animal nutrition. He worked for 8 years as a research assistant in the general commission of agricultural research, Syria with main focus on utilisation of agricultural by-products as animal feed. He joined ICARDA (Ethiopia office) as a post-graduate Researcher for 4 years (2014-2018). He is currently working as a research fellow in Nottingham Trent University, Poultry research unit.
Web page: www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/animal-rural-environmental-sciences/ashraf-alkhtib |
Emmanuel Zuza
Emmanuel is a lecturer in Environmental Management and sustainability at the Royal Agricultural University. He is interested in sustainable farming landscape transformations, environmental justice, payment for ecosystem services and utilisation of indigenous knowledge and species for food security and climate adaptation. His expertise is in agroforestry systems, value chain development, species distribution modelling and design of payment for ecosystem services.
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Pan He
Pan is the Lecturer in Environmental Science and Sustainability at Cardiff University. Her work focuses on evaluating the environmental and social impacts of household food consumption and conducting quantitative environmental and climate policy analysis in countries with various development levels. She is keen to work with interdisciplinary scholars to explore dietary changes to address global sustainable challenges such as climate change and resource depletion.
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Hermann Kam
Hermann is a postdoctoral researcher at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He is keen on better understanding the intersections between policy, land use and ecosystems in the UK. Specifically, he seeks to incorporate a more interdisciplinary approach to examining the synergies and conflicts between agri-environmental policies, the farming sector and conservation efforts in the UK countryside. Web page:
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James McCaughern
James is a sheep farmer from Northern Ireland, and a Lecturer in Beef Production Systems at Harper Adams University, Shropshire. His research interests involve dairy and beef cattle, with a focus on feed efficiency, trace element nutrition, and metabolomics. Web page: www.harper-adams.ac.uk/general/staff/profile/202666/James-McCaughern/
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Kelly Jowett
Kelly is an entomologist working on the design of cropping systems and landscapes to reconcile crop and livestock production with biodiversity and ecosystem services. She has a particular interest in the functional biodiversity of carabid and dung beetles, and working with farmers to apply her research. Kelly completed her PhD on the modelling of carabid beetle distributions in farm landscapes towards effective natural-enemy pest control. She has a masters in Global Food Security and Development, and a degree in Environmental Conservation. She has expertise in agricultural entomology, forestry, agricultural systems, and communications.
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Lorena Rangel
Lorena is a research plant pathologist in the Cell & Molecular Sciences department at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, Scotland. Her research focuses on the foliar microbiome of agricultural crops or their wild progenitors and how phytopathogenesis impacts community structure. In particular, she is interested in investigating the potential to exploit the foliar and endophytic microbiome for tailored disease control of plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Web page: www.linkedin.com/in/lorenairangel/
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Martin Chadwick
Martin is research associate in the department of Food and Nutrition at Reading University. He has a background in crop genetics and formerly worked as a plant breeder developing fruit and vegetable varieties for North Africa and Europe. His current research is in the food systems and supply chain space, working as a business liaison in FoodSEqual, improving shelf life of leafy vegetables, and development of niche crop products. Web page: www.linkedin.com/in/martin-chadwick-42162258
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Peter Gittins
Peter Gittins is a Lecturer in the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies within the management department at LUBS. He has a practical working background in farm management, helping to run his family-owned livestock farm in West Yorkshire. Peter has an inter-disciplinary research background exploring ‘Constrained Entrepreneurship in the English Uplands’ as part of his PhD at the University of Huddersfield. Peter’s research interests are centred around agricultural business management, specifically rural entrepreneurship and approaches to strategic management in farming businesses. Web page: business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1414/dr-peter-gittins
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Philippa Simmonds
Philippa is an environmental social scientist with a background in clinical medicine, based at the University of Gloucestershire. Her current research focuses on discourses around ruminant methane emissions and how these are manifested as on-farm strategies. She is interested in deliberative democracy, climate governance, and how we might achieve a just transition towards a sustainable agri-food system. Web page: www.ccri.ac.uk/about-us/people/postgraduate-students/philippa-simmonds/
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Rosario Michel-Villarreal
Rosario is a Lecturer in Sustainability and Business in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests lie at the intersection of food supply chains and sustainability, with a primary focus on driving change towards more sustainable and resilient enterprises and food supply chains. Rosario has been actively engaged in research projects exploring the impact of digitalisation on improving logistics and resilience in short food supply chains, specifically focusing on the Global South and emerging economies.
Web page: environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/11563/dr-rosario-michel-villarreal |
Cynthia Okoro Shekwaga
Cynthia is a University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds, having completed her PhD at the university of Leeds, where she investigated the improvement of biomethane yield and biogas quality from food waste AD using sequential process optimisation and biomethanation. She continues her research supporting the BBSRC funded project on Bioenergy, Fertiliser and Clean Water from Invasive Aquatic Macrophyte (BEFWAM) and the Gates Foundation project on Climate Change and Sanitation; Assessing Resilience and Emissions (SCARE). In 2022 she was awarded the BBSRC Discovery Fellowship to investigate the production of low-carbon, high-grade biomethane from food waste for use as a vehicle fuel.
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Chidiebere Ofoegbu
Chidiebere is a forest and environmental scientist. His research interests focus on landscape and natural resources sustainability and ecosystem services. As a broadly trained natural resource scientist, he is well suited to understand and communicate the connections among the ecological, economic, policy, and social dimensions of these systems within the context of sustainable development.
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Payton Yau
Payton is a research associate in microbiology and bioinformatics at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). His current research focuses on soil microbiome in crops for the UK Crop Microbiome CryoBank. He previously worked on cancer, infectious and digestive diseases, focusing on epigenetics, microbial diagnostics, gut-host interactions and meta-analysis.
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Katie McDermott
Katie is a lecturer in Sustainable Livestock Production at the University of Leeds. She is interested in sustainable ways of improving animal health, efficiency and productivity while reducing feed waste, minimising land use and decreasing environmental pollution. Katie studies microbes in the gut and animal waste and is keen to explore ways to valorise waste streams.
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Sotirios OikonomouSotirios has a broad background in food microbiology and is currently working on developing new technologies and strategies to ensure the safety and quality of the food supply. His primary view is on the application of 3D printing technology (polymers and functional foods) and its great potential to be applied in the food sector as a sustainable technology, as well as the viability of consumer acceptance towards this novel technology.
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Natasha AuchIn 2022, Natasha completed a PhD at Newcastle University in behavioural economics for sustainable food consumption, with input from Unilever. She now works as a social science consultant for ADAS, an environmental and agricultural consultancy. Her skills are in qualitative data analysis. She is interested in behavioural insights and believes that while technological innovations will keep advancing, human perceptions can be a barrier.
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Andrea Garduño JiménezAndrea is an environmental engineer with analytical chemistry expertise; her research lies around reusing ‘waste’ streams in agriculture. Her interests are understanding, and ultimately minimising, environmental pollution arising from waste reuse (e.g. wastewater reuse for irrigation) in the agri-ecosystem. She is keen to work with social scientists to address social barriers to achieve sustainable waste reuse in agriculture globally.
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Saher HasnainSaher is a researcher at the Food Systems Transformation Programme with the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute. Trained as an environmental scientist and geographer, she currently works on an interdisciplinary portfolio focused on food systems and foresight analysis.
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Colm DuffyColm is an Agri-food Systems Ecologist at the James Hutton Institute and an EPA fellow in the University of Limerick. He specialises in modelling land use and land use change, life cycle and systems analysis. In addition, he has also worked on several other projects with the University of Galway, Bangor University. Colm has led the modelling work on the SeQUEsTER project and continues to develop the GOBLIN modelling framework in his current fellowship capacity.
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David BoldrinDavid is a researcher in soil biophysics and soil-plant interactions at The James Hutton Institute and at the University of Dundee. His research interests span from sustainable soil management in agroecosystem to environmental engineering in built environment. His major focus is on hydromechanical behaviour of vegetated soils to design nature-based solutions for adaptation to the climate crisis.
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Virginia ThomasBased in the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter, Virginia is an environmental social scientist researching the interface between conservation and other forms of land use. Her research explores the intersection of conservation and agriculture and how this is negotiated between different stakeholders. She is particularly interested in the narratives and policies surrounding ecological restoration, agricultural food production, and carbon sequestration and other pathways to net zero.
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Samuel RobinsonSam is a Plant-Soil Biogeochemist based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lancaster. Sam conducts fundamental and applied research to understand and mitigate land use impacts on biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles and GHG emissions underpinned by plant-soil interactions across systems ranging from temperate cropland to tropical forest. Current work addresses diurnal variation in soil nitrous oxide emissions from UK agriculture and ecosystem carbon stocks in oil palm plantations in SE Asia.
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Zainab Oyetunde-UsmanZainab is a Research Scientist in Social Science based at the Net Zero and Resilient Farming Department at Rothamsted Research. Her research interest surrounds behavioural and impacts modelling of innovative climate-resilient techniques across the agricultural food value chain in the UK. She is particularly interested in how the farming population heterogeneity plays a role in their various choices of climate-resilient techniques in the UK, and as well interested in consumers’ behavioural perceptions of innovative food products.
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Bingjie LiBingjie is a quantitative geneticist and animal breeder at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). Her research focuses on 1) developing statistical methods to study genetic difference in animal population, 2) developing sustainable and efficient animal production through breeding, 3) uncovering genetic basis of animal complex traits through integrating diverse data sources (e.g. data on animal production, health, efficiency, as well as animals' genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic data). She has been working on projects with BBSRC, AHDB, DEFRA and international consortium on animal production, genetics, and breeding.
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Ruben Valcarce DiñeiroRuben is a researcher in Remote Sensing at Newcastle University. He has over eight years of experience (industry and academia) in monitoring vegetation in agricultural and forest environments, through the development and application of remote sensing technology, including satellite time series.
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Gaetano GrilliGaetano is a research fellow at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia. His current work focuses on pathways to the sustainable management of ecosystems and natural resources. Gaetano is an applied economist interested in the relationship between ecosystem services and individual wellbeing, focusing on environmental valuation, applied microeconomics and quality of life.
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Joana FerreiraJoana is an ecological economist and biologist, working at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and University of Edinburgh. As a social and natural scientist, Joana is keen on cross- and transdisciplinary research. Her current research focuses on invertebrate conservation in agricultural landscapes. She is interested in conservation behaviour, collaborative learning and action, social well-being and ecological health indicators, and participatory monitoring design.
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Joseph MartlewJoseph is a Research Agronomist at NIAB, with a mixed background in academia as a soil scientist and in industry as a commercial agronomist. Joseph has a strong interest in how farm management approaches may be brought together into farming systems to increase the sustainability and resilience of food production. His specialist areas are soil function, soil/machinery interactions and agronomy.
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