Contributors

Matthew A. Back, BSc, MSc, PhD, PGDE

Present appointment: Reader in Plant Nematology, Crop & Environment Science Department, Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, UK.

Research interests include management and biology of plant parasitic nematodes with specific expertise on the application of biofumigation. At Harper Adams University Matthew teaches topics concerned with plant pathology and plant disease management.

Paul Brassley, BSc(Hons), BLitt, PhD

Present appointment: Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter.

Formerly a Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Policy Research at Exeter, following many years teaching agricultural policy and rural history at Seale-Hayne College, which became part of the University of Plymouth. He has also held visiting chairs at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2012) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2020). He was appointed to a three-year term as President of the British Agricultural History Society in 2019. Among his recent publications are Agriculture: a Very Short Introduction (with Richard Soffe, Oxford University Press, 2016).

Rick Brunt, BSc(Hons), PGDip Occupational Health and Safety, CMIOSH, Chartered Registered Safety Practitioner.

Present appointment: Deputy Director, Head of Operational Strategy, Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Her Majesty's Inspector of Health and Safety.

Previous appointments have included: Head of Operations, HSE North West; Head of Inspector training, HSE Merseyside; Learning and Development Business Partner.

Emily J. Burton, PhD

Present appointment: Professor in Sustainable Food Production, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Emily is president of the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) UK Branch and represents the UK in the European Working Groups on Nutrition (WG2) and Education and Information (WG11). Alongside her research, Emily's passion is for helping students to develop into scientists capable of making a tangible contribution to the advancement of animal science. Her research focuses on understanding interactions between feed materials and gastrointestinal environment in poultry in both developed and developing countries

Gian Lorenzo D'Alterio DVM, PhD, MSc FRCVS, Diplomate of the European College of Small Ruminant Health and Management

Veterinary private practitioner with Damory Veterinary Clinic, Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK.

Gian completed a residency at the farm animal practice of Bristol Vet School in Langford and has spent many years working in private practice on sheep and goat health management in both the meat and dairy sector

Louisa Dines MPhil, Member of BASIS and FACTS Professional Register

Present appointment: Principal Lecturer in Agronomy, Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire, UK.

Course tutor for agriculture and Course Manager for BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. Previous appointments have included agronomist and technical support manager for a national distributor company.

Ian C. Dodd, PhD (Lancaster), BSc (Queensland).

Present appointment: Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.

Research interests include crop water use efficiency, deficit irrigation and rhizobacteria. Ian is Director of Studies of Lancaster's MSc Food Security (Distance Learning) and Associate Editor of both the Journal of Experimental Botany & Plant and Soil.

Gemma Eales, BSc (Hons)

Present appointment: Research Leader, Rural Business School, Duchy College, UK.

Gemma graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Exeter and has spent over 14 years working in agricultural knowledge exchange and research, with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture and animal health. Research interests include farmland conservation, ecology and grassland-based systems, particularly multi-species swards.

John Eddison

Present appointment: Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Biological & Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK.

Prior to retiring in 2015, John was an associate professor in applied ethology at the University of Plymouth lecturing undergraduates and MSc students on applied behaviour and welfare of animals managed by humans, and supervising many postgraduate research students. For 10 years (prior to and since retirement) he was an appointed animal welfare expert on a committee of a UK government department and, for a further three years, a member of the animal welfare committee of the French biosecurity agency (ANSES). In addition, he has provided expert evidence on the behaviour of livestock in more than 25 legal cases across the UK and the Republic of Ireland where humans have been seriously injured or killed by farm animals.

E. David Elphinstone, PhD (University of Nottingham), BSc (University of Nottingham).

Retired - Director of Research, Myerscough College and University Centre, UK.

Research interests included crop nutrient and water use efficiency, and sustainable agricultural systems. Previously David was a lecturer on crop, plant science and biotechnology. Also Chair of Education and Qualifications Committee at the Chartered Institute of Horticulture.

Patrick Garland

Present appointment: Poultry Nutritionist, Premier Nutrition, Rugeley, UK.

A commercial poultry nutritionist working primarily in the UK but also supporting customers globally who are producing all classes of poultry and poultry products. Early in Patrick's career, experience in feed mills, running a poultry research farm, on farm sales support and liaison with retailers formed a foundation for becoming responsible for the poultry technical team at the largest animal feed compounder in the UK.

Past President of the UK Branch of WPSA from 2009 to 2014 and secretary for the WPSA working group No. 2 Nutrition from 1991 to 2005. In his commercial role he has presented papers at nutrition conferences in Europe, Asia and Australia, author and joint author of Nutritional Disorders in Poultry Diseases 5th and 6th Editions, member of the technical committee for Assured Chicken Production 1999-2005 and served on the Poultry Working Group and the Antimicrobial Working Group at the National Office For Animal Health 2005-2011.

Dr Robin Hawkey, PhD

Pesent appointment: Senior Nutritionist, Mole Valley Feed Solutions.

Previous appointments have included technical and commercial roles in ruminant nutrition and practical rationing, with specific interests in protein metabolism, rumen health and efficiency of forage utilisation. Lecturer at Harper Adams University College in Animal Production and Science. PhD 'Amino acid oxidation and protein metabolism in animals'.

Alan Hopkins, BSc, MPhil, CEnv, MCIEEM.

Independent grassland and environmental consultant, lecturer and science editor.

Previously research scientist at the Grassland Research Institute Hurley and North Wyke Research Station, Devon. Alan's research areas have included permanent grassland and legume agronomy, restoration and utilisation of grassland biodiversity, farmland surveys and climate change effects on agriculture.

He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Grass and Forage Science from 2008-2018, edited the 3rd edition of Grass: Its Production and Utilisation (2000) and numerous symposium proceedings for the European Grassland Federation and British Grassland Society. Previous appointments have included Honorary faculty member of University of Reading, Honorary Research Associate University of Exeter and Secretary of the Stapledon Memorial Trust.

Nic Lampkin, PhD, ARAgS, MIAgrM

Present appointments: Researcher, Thünen Institute, Germany; Honorary Fellow, Scotland's Rural College; Associate, Institute of European Environmental Policy, Brussels; Consultant on Agricultural Policy.

Previously Executive Director, Organic Research Centre, Newbury; Visiting Professor, University of Reading; Director, Organic Centre Wales, Aberystwyth; Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University. Research interests include technical, environmental business and policy aspects of organic farming and agroecology. Main author/editor of the Organic Farm Management Handbook and Organic Farming.

Matt Lobley

Present appointment: Professor of Rural Resource Management and Co-Director of the CRPR, University of Exeter, UK.

Much of Matt's research has focused on understanding influences on, and impacts of, farm household behaviour. This includes understanding policy influences such as agricultural policy reform and agri-environmental schemes, as well as understanding the process of agricultural restructuring and the socioeconomic implications of re-localised and organic food systems. One of his main areas of research expertise is in the family life-cycle and succession issues. With John Baker (Iowa State University), Matt co-directs a collaborative international project (FARMTRANSFERS) exploring farm succession and retirement in a range of different social, economic and political contexts.

Wyn Morgan, BSc Agriculture,...