I am Associate Professor in Environmental Governance with teaching and research interests in the relationship between different land uses, communities and policies across the UK and Europe. This includes investigating innovations that can result from local decision making and collaboration.
>My research for the past 30 years has focused on agricultural transition, responding to biodiversity loss, how communities engage with nature and developing inclusive long-term solutions to complex issues.
I am recognised as an expert in integrated catchment management, landscape-scale management, common land and nature-based solutions.
As Associate Professor in the Countryside and Community Research Institute, I oversee a wide range of research that covers some of the greatest issues the world faces today, such as global warming, food security and biodiversity loss.
My own research looks at innovative approaches to the way we respond to issues such as environmental decline and the collaborative ways in which different communities are responding to this and the national policies developed.