Niamh Mahon
Niamh Mahon is an environmental social scientist, with an interdisciplinary background, working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) group at the James Hutton Institute. Niamh is interested in stakeholders’, and in particular farmers’ practices, and their perspectives and understandings of sustainability in farming and the wider food system.
Before joining the James Hutton Institute, Niamh worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Hull on the Wellcome Trust Funded FIELD project, exploring the sustainable reduction of endemic livestock disease in the UK. She also worked as a research assistant in socio-economics and policy for the Organic Research Centre.
Niamh has a PhD on the development of stakeholder-sensitive indicators of the Sustainable Intensification of UK agriculture and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security.
Bibliography
- Holloway, L.; Mahon, N.; Clark, B.; Proctor, A. (2023) Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England, Sociologia Ruralis
- Clark, B.; Mahon, N. (2023) In the shoes of a farmer (re)connecting the public with animal health and welfare in livestock production, Research for All, 7(1)
- Holloway, L.; Mahon, N.; Clark, B.; Proctor, A. (2023) Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England, Sociologia Ruralis
- Clark, B.; Mahon, N. (2023) In the shoes of a farmer (re)connecting the public with animal health and welfare in livestock production, Research for All, 7(1)
- Mahon, N.; Holloway, L.; Clark, B.; Proctor, A. (2023) Doing disease at scale: The case of farm animal lameness, 2023 International ISESSAH Conference, 13-15 June 2023, University of Helsinki, Finland
