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Prof Julie Ingram

Professor Of Innovation For Sustainable Agriculture

COUNTRYSIDE & COMMUNITY RESEARCH INST
Telephone:
01242 714134
Julie joined CCRI in 2004. Her main research interests are concerned with Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems and innovation processes. She is a specialist concerning knowledge exchange within the agricultural community and knowledge processes within the context of sustainable agriculture…

Biography

Julie joined CCRI in 2004. Her main research interests are concerned with Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems and innovation processes. She is a specialist concerning knowledge exchange within the agricultural community and knowledge processes within the context of sustainable agriculture and natural resource protection, with particular reference to soil.

Her research has also covered the evaluation of agri-environmental schemes examining the influence of farmer knowledge, attitudes and motivations on behaviour. Her research examines socio-technical transition towards sustainable agriculture, for example through digital agriculture, bioenergy crops, agroecology. For a number of years, Julie worked in developing countries in agriculture and forestry before joining CCRI.

At the European level Julie has led Work Packages in numerous EU Horizon 2020 and FP7 projects such as AgriDemo-F2F (Building an interactive AgriDemo-Hub community: enhancing farmer to farmer learning), VALERIE, SmartSOIL and SOLINSA.

She has been active on the EU Horizon 2020 projects ‘SoilCare’ (SoilCare for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe), and RECARE and currently leads a Work Package for MINAGRIS (MIcro- and NAno-Plastics in AGRIricultural Soils: sources, environmental fate and impacts on ecosystem services and overall sustainability).

Awards

  • OECD Research Fellowship, University of Queensland, Australia, and CIFOR and the University of Indonesia, 2018-19
  • Research and Scholarship award, University of Gloucestershire, 2017
  • Paper of Year award, Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014 – 2015.

Teaching & Research

Research

  • Perennial Biomass Crops for Greenhouse Gas Removal (PBC4GGR). BBSRC, 2021-2025
  • Post-Covid Knowledge exchange in agriculture: Evaluating current practice and Co-designing a digital solution to connect farmers and the AKIS. Innovate UK, 2021-2022
  • Priority Research Questions for Digital Agriculture. Defra, 2020-2021
  • An analysis of practice change and the use of behavioural insights in agriculture and horticulture – identifying what works. AHDB, 2021
  • Collaborative mechanisms and incentives for achieving environmental benefits at large spatial scales through Environmental Land Management (with CRPR, Exeter University). Defra, 2020-2021
  • An adaptive decision-support tool for better grassland management by UK farmers (with Cranfield University, Rothamsted Research and SRUC). NERC/ SARIC, 2019-2020.

Publications

More publications from Prof Julie Ingram can be found in the Research Repository.

External responsibilities

  • Steering committee for the International Farming Systems Association
  • Co-editor of the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
  • Expert reviewer for the Newton Prize
  • Co-coordinator and mentor for, Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops (UK, South Africa, Egypt and Kazakhstan).
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