Experience

Crop Health & Protection - CHAP

• United Kingdom
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Innovation Network Lead

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  My role is to expand sector networks and identify industry-led problems, support and develop collaborative R&D, and exchange knowledge, across the agri-food supply chain and around CHAP's four key themes: intelligent agronomy, innovative crop health strategies, controlled environment agriculture and soil & crop health. I also lead on strategic responses to critical sector challenges, such as Net Zero, and lead CHAP's New Innovations Programme, a collaborative innovation programme that develops robust business cases for solutions to critical sector challenges, in order to tackle market failure and drive sector growth. https://chap-solutions.co.uk/ Show less



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Oct 2016 - Jul 2019

  My role was to represent the N8 AgriFood Programme and its academic cohort, to be a point of contact for key stakeholders, and to drive forward innovative and impactful multidisciplinary research within the theme of sustainable production and more widely across the agri-food chain. My key responsibilities were:* Building relationships with industry to understand their R&D needs* Facilitating research interactions between the academics in the North of England (N8 Partnership) and key agri-food stakeholders* Technical interpretation between academia and both industry and policy* Project management* Developing funding opportunities* Networkinghttp://n8agrifood.ac.uk Show less

• • Oct 2015 - Sep 2016

  Across two 6-month roles, I:a) worked for NERC to project manage the establishment of the joint NERC-NSFC programme 'Using Critical Zone Science to understand sustaining the ecosystem service of soil and water', including organising and hosting a project initiation workshop for all five funded projects;b) worked for the University of Sheffield's Research and Innovation Services as their Capital Equipment Manager, project managing the internal requisition, authorisation and reporting requirements for high-value equipment items. Show less



OLD page Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Soil Scientist

  • Jan 2014 - Sep 2015

  This position centred upon the preparation of a UK baseline soil monitoring strategy and observatory proposal, led by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). It involved: * Project managing an academic working group on UK soils and environmental monitoring to deliver new, strategic planning utilising an ecosystem services approach; * Collating expertise from across CEH's six science areas and interlinking this with both wider UK expertise and existing monitoring capabilities (rapid evidence review); * Contributing to an RSC special publication on the future of environmental sensing in the UK Show less



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow

  • Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

  This one-year fellowship involved the study of bioaggregation, specifically the cellular adhesion to and sequestration of atmospheric pollutants by photosynthetic microorganisms in various water-based environments. This one-year fellowship involved the study of bioaggregation, specifically the cellular adhesion to and sequestration of atmospheric pollutants by photosynthetic microorganisms in various water-based environments.



Wardell Armstrong LLP

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Environmental Scientist

  • Jan 2007 - Sep 2008

  This varied job role involved the full environmental assessment of contaminated land sites, soil and groundwater sampling, modelling and statistical analysis, the creation of remedial strategies for contaminated land, and various other tasks including flood risk assessment, environmental impact assessment and geotechnical investigation. This varied job role involved the full environmental assessment of contaminated land sites, soil and groundwater sampling, modelling and statistical analysis, the creation of remedial strategies for contaminated land, and various other tasks including flood risk assessment, environmental impact assessment and geotechnical investigation.