- I embody interdisciplinarity. My undergraduate is in Political Science and History, my PhD is in Human Geography and ... moreI embody interdisciplinarity. My undergraduate is in Political Science and History, my PhD is in Human Geography and I now work in a Vet School. I My research explores tensions and intersections between livestock farming and the environment. I am particularly interested in the challenges of reconciling the impetus for conservation and the duty to protect livelihoods. Through these themes I pursue an interest in cultural politics, agricultural and environmental governance and human-animal relationships. Conceptually, my research relates to regulation studies, more-than-human geographies, political ecology and the politics of materiality. I currently explore these themes in four interdisciplinary and international projects related to reforestation, water management, ecosystem conservation and anti-microbial resistance AMR. My projects are funded by BBSRC, NERC, AHRC and ESRC and have granted me skills and experience that allow me to communicate with a variety of audiences: communities, academics and policymakers. I have an interest in vidual outputs and methods, you can find my documentaries in YouTube.edit
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BIOSMART1 es un proyecto interdisciplinario e internacional con duración de 3 años dedicado al estudio de la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles (SSP)2 y otros esquemas agroambientales en la Amazonía colombiana en pro de la... more
BIOSMART1 es un proyecto interdisciplinario e internacional con duración de 3 años dedicado al estudio de la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles (SSP)2 y otros esquemas agroambientales en la Amazonía colombiana en pro de la sociedad, el medio ambiente y la economía local. El proyecto Paisajes Sostenibles para la Amazonía, liderado por el CIAT3 fue uno de los esquemas estudiados. Los métodos de investigación incluyeron entrevistas semiestructuradas, sondeos telefónicos, grupos focales, juegos de percepción de riesgo, modelación de cambios en el uso del suelo y ecología de campo. Aspiramos a una mejor comprensión de estos sistemas para apoyar los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible relacionados con la erradicación de la pobreza, el impulso del desarrollo rural, el logro de una producción pecuaria neto cero carbono y la conservación de los bosques y la biodiversidad
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This article uses the case of animal welfare to contribute to academic debates about audit and better regulation reforms designed to reduce administrative burdens and increase regulatory effectiveness. Combining desk-based policy document... more
This article uses the case of animal welfare to contribute to academic debates about audit and better regulation reforms designed to reduce administrative burdens and increase regulatory effectiveness. Combining desk-based policy document analysis, on-farm field visits, and 31 interviews with livestock farmers and animal health and welfare inspectors in England, it explores farmers' record-keeping practices and the contrasting role regulatory records are understood to play in assurance and good animal husbandry by farmers, regulatory inspectors, and veterinary experts. Farmers experience record-keeping as something they must do to satisfy external regulatory demands rather than anything that good farmers might themselves use in caring for their livestock. As a result they regard paperwork as burdensome and often fail to comply with record-keeping requirements. By contrast, inspectors and animal welfare experts frame record-keeping and analysis as central to good animal husbandry...
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Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures... more
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exerci...
Research Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, Animal Welfare, Medicine, and 14 moreInterdisciplinary Studies, Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Discipline, Collaborative Research, Humans, Animals, Laboratory Animal Welfare, PLoS one, DDC, Animal Research, Laboratory Animal Science, Cooperative Behavior, and Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine
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This report, produced as the final deliverable of a 9 month full-time social science fellowship at Defra, reviews Defra's social science evidence base on the issue of farmer behaviour, particularly with regards to animal welfare. The... more
This report, produced as the final deliverable of a 9 month full-time social science fellowship at Defra, reviews Defra's social science evidence base on the issue of farmer behaviour, particularly with regards to animal welfare. The report argues that the Department would benefit from understanding and engaging with social science beyond the approaches of cognitive psychology and behavioural economics. As it further reviews four specific farmer practices around animal welfare the report goes on to suggest areas that could articulate a social science research agenda on farmers' actions and decisions around animal welfare.
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Our analysis of 2707 news stories explores the framing of flooding in Britain over the past quarter century and the displacement of a once dominant understanding of flooding as an agricultural problem of land drainage by the contemporary... more
Our analysis of 2707 news stories explores the framing of flooding in Britain over the past quarter century and the displacement of a once dominant understanding of flooding as an agricultural problem of land drainage by the contemporary concern for its urban impacts, particularly to homes and property. We document dramatic changes in the volume and variety of reporting about flooding since 2000 as the risks of flooding have become more salient, the informal ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ between government and private insurers has broken down, and flood management subjected to greater public scrutiny. While the historic reliance on private insurance remains largely unchallenged, we show that other aspects of flood hazard management are now topics of active political debate to which the looming threat of climate change adds both urgency and exculpatory excuses for poor performance. We conclude by reflecting on the significance of the case for grand theories of neoliberalisation and governm...
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The regeneration of Trafalgar Square was presented as a process of transforming a chaotic roundabout into a world-class square fit for a world-class city. This worldclassness revolved around enabling the square as a cultural space by... more
The regeneration of Trafalgar Square was presented as a process of transforming a chaotic roundabout into a world-class square fit for a world-class city. This worldclassness revolved around enabling the square as a cultural space by altering the very materiality of the place: several human and nonhuman objects were added in order to encourage those cultural practices through which a world-class city-ness is performed. The proposal implied some exclusions too. Turning the square into a cultural place implied redefining the presence of nature within it. To be cultural the square had to be pigeon-free and achieving that goal, in turn, required some material objects being removed and some practices being proscribed. This paper examines the contested accounts of civility at play in this material remaking of Trafalgar Square and advances the wider theoretical claim that this dynamic interplay of placement and displacement of ontologically symmetrical humans and nonhumans is not blind to ...
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Book review Who speaks for the climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate change by M T Boykoff; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011