People
We have a wealth of experience in many diverse areas such as plant and soil biology, waste prevention in supply chains, and food justice.
Directors
Professor Duncan Cameron
Professor of Plant and Soil Biology
Soil, plants, fungi, symbiotic organisms, microorganisms, mycorrhizal, ecosystems, agriculture, ecology
Professor Peter Jackson
Professor of Human Geography
Social geography, cultural geography, consumption, identity, families, food
Leadership team
Dr Samantha Caton
Lecturer in Public Health
Children, alcohol, obesity, appetite, nutrition
Professor Hamish Cunningham
Professor of Internet Computing
Aquaponics control systems, Internet of Things, embedded computing, physical computing, micro-manufacturing, maker culture, ESP32, Raspberry Pi
Professor Andrew Fleming
Professor of Plant Science
Plant morphogenenesis, cell growth, biology, leaf growth
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska
Research Fellow at the Department of Geography
Soil, sustainable food production, environmental knowledge, agriculture, farmers
Dr Megan Lewis
Business Development Manager
Professor Bhavani Shankar
Professorial Research Fellow in Food and Health
Food, health, environmental sustainability
Professor Jurriaan Ton
Professor of Plant Environmental Signalling
Plants, plant immune systems, environmental stress, insects, plant defences
Professor Tim Daniell
Professor of Plant Science
Arbuscular mycorrhizal ecology, microbial nitrogen cycling, free-living nematode dynamics, soil health
Doctor Sonal Choudhary
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Management
Supply chain management, inclusive and integrated value chains, lean six sigma and sustainable natural resource management
Key researchers
Professor David J Beerling FRS
Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences
Photosynthesis, evolution, plants, ecology, climate change
Dr Megan Blake
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Hunger, food insecurity, neoliberalism, community, social justice, food waste, surplus
Professor Dan Brockington
Director of SIID
Livelihood change, natural resource governance, microfinance, institutional performance, Africa, protected areas, media, conservation, development
Professor Vanesa Castan Broto
Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute
Climate change, urban, urbanisation, energy
Dr Nick Taylor Buck
Research Fellow at the Urban Institute
Urban, ecology, design, co-production
Dr Bobby Caine
Research Associate in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Stomata, photosynthesis, climate-resilient crops
Dr Stuart A Campbell
Independent Research Fellow at the P3 Centre
Evolution, ecology, plants, herbivores, plant reproduction
Dr Stuart Casson
Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Structural biology, electron microscopy, cryoEM, X-ray crystallography, bacteriology
Professor Beining Chen
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Molecular design, combinatorial chemistry, drug design, molecular recognition
Dr Dylan Childs
Lecturer in Animal and Plant Sciences
Population biology, evolution, natural selection, demography, environment, ecology
Dr Sonal Choudhary
Lecturer in Sustainable Management
Logistics and supply chain management
Dr Pascal-Antoine Christin
ERC Research fellow
Plants, evolution, genes, transcriptomes, ecology, morphology
Professor Frances Cleaver
Professor in Human Geography
Institutions, water, governance, livelihoods, poverty, Africa, environment
Dr Alasdair Cochrane
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
Imprisonment, animal rights, human rights, food justice
Dr Bernard M Corfe
Senior Lecturer in Oncology
Diet, metabolism, nutrition, cancer, bowel, colon
Professor Tim Daniell
N8 Chair in Soil Microbiology
Soil, mycorrhizal, fungi, nitrogen, nemotodes
Professor Nicola Dibben
Professor of Music
Science, psychology, music, human behaviour, emotion, sociability, environmentalism, feminism
Dr Jill Edmondson
EPSRC Early Career 'Living with Environmental Change Challenge' Fellow
Soil, plants, carbon budgeting, food, biofuel, urban, agriculture, pollution, citizen science
Dr Sophie Evison
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Evolution, insects, evolution, biology
Professor Julie Gray
Professor of Plant Cell Signalling
Plant development, stomata, environmental signalling
Professor Graham Harrison
Professor of Politics
Africa, UK, development, poverty
Professor Michelle Holdsworth
Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Sustainable diets, malnutrition, food environment, dietary transitions, nutrition policy, low and middle income countries
Professor Peter Horton FRS
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry
Plants, photosynthesis, agriculture, agrifood systems, sustainability
Professor Dorothea Kleine
Faculty Professorial Research Fellow
Sustainable development, ICT, sustainable/ethical consumption research, food geography, trade justice, Fair Trade
Dr Janice Lake
Independent Research Fellow
Plant physiology and climate change, climate change mitigation (carbon capture and storage), remediation of industrial land for biomass production
Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford
Faculty Research Fellow
Food, poverty, food banks, austerity, welfare
Dr Harry Langford
Research Associate
Geomicrobiology, glaciers, soil, photosynthesis, environment
Dr Sanjay V Lanka
Lecturer in Financial Management
Environment, supply chains, accounting, ecology, agriculture, livelihoods, biodiversity, soil
Professor Jonathan R Leake
Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, soil, mycorrhizal, fungi, pollution, biology, chemistry
Dr Ruth Little
Lecturer in Human Geography
Social science, food, agriculture, Brexit
Dr Ben Lowe
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Natural capital, environmental finance, economy, water, agriculture
Jacob Nickles
Knowledge Exchange Associate
Aquaponics, hydroponics, plants, agriculture, environment, soil
Professor Colin Osborne
Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, photosynthesis, food, agriculture, environment, climate change, land
Dr Sam Outhwaite
Research Associate
Human geography
Dr Jagroop Pandhal
Lecturer in Bioengineering
Environment, agriculture, pollution, ecology, biology
Dr Rebecca Pradeilles
Research Fellow in Global Public Health Nutrition
Nutrition, health, Africa, South Asia, agriculture, obesity, community
Dr Stephen A Rolfe
Senior Lecturer in Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, plant disease, environment, pollution
Professor Anthony J Ryan
Professor of Physical Chemistry
Polymers, thermodynamics, nanotechnology
Professor Julie Scholes
Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, plant disease, photosynthesis, genes, parasites
Professor Michael T Siva-Jothy
Professor of Entymology
Insects, genes, immune systems, evolution, insect reproduction
Dr Lisa Smith
Lecturer in Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, environment, agriculture, biology
Dr Merisa S Thompson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Gender, politics, power, food, agriculture, environment, feminism, supply chains
Dr Christian Voigt
P3 Lecturer in Animal and Plant Sciences
Plants, pathogens, agriculture, plant diseases
Dr Elizabeth Williams
Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition
Nutrition, health, wellbeing, older adults, diet, immune function, ageing
Dr Ting Xu
Senior Lecturer
Law, governance, development, property, human rights, political economy
Dr Ellie Harrison
NERC Independent Research Fellow
Ecology and evolution in the soil microbiome, Rhizobia-legume interactions, bacteriophages and mobile genetic elements
Professor Phil Withington
Professor of Social and Cultural History
Pre-modern intoxicants (especially alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opiates, cacao, sugar), sociability, popular politics, urbanisation, practical humanism
Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Professor of Global History
Food Histories and Cultures, South Asia, Islam, Women and Gender
Dr Manoj Menon
Environmental Soil Scientist
Physical and hydrological processes in soils, soil and food contamination, imaging of soils and plants, arsenic in the food chain
Dr Luke Whaley
Global Challenge Research Fellow
Land and water governance, institutions, worldviews and the politics of meaning, social and ecological justice
Professor Philip Warren
Professor of Ecology
Landscape ecology; freshwater ecology and catchment management; urban ecology and urban food production; ecosystem services
Professor Mark Dickman
Professor of Bioanalytical Science and Engineering
Crop protection, biopesticides, proteomics, mass spectrometry, biomanufacturing
Dr Moaed Al Meselmani
Research Associate
Plant physiology, hydroponics, drought, agriculture, environment, climate change, food security, urban farming
Dr Josh Milburn
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Moral philosophy; political philosophy; animal ethics; animal rights; food ethics; food justice; agricultural ethics; veganism
Dr Adrien Chauvet
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry
Ultrafast spectroscopy, plant imaging and signalling
Dr Pamela Richardson-Ngwenya
Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow
Agri-food studies, feminist geography, diverse economies, sustainabilities, collaborative methodologies, critical development studies and political ecology
Dr Mike Foden
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow