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Jianyu Chen is a researcher in People-Environment studies and Behavioural Modelling in the Department of Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) at the James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen) since late 2022.
I completed my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Pretoria (UP, South Africa); my research focus is the legume-rhizobium
Katy is a Research Assistant in the Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Department (SEGS) working in Environmental Governance. Her projects
Trinity Sandra Ndlovu (nee) Senda is as Agroecosystem ecologist at the James Hutton Institute (JHI). She attained her PhD thesis from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in Management of Agroecosystems and the Environment. Her PhD work focused on the socio-ecological implications of communal land rights formalization in pastoral settings.
Alon is a landscape agroecologist with a background in geosciences, geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Victoria, Canada and an MSc from the Lund University, Sweden. His work involves the use of GIS, remote sensing applications, programming, and conceptual modelling to evaluate landscape changes and to greater understand a landscape’s potential for sustainable agricultural practices.
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.
Dr David Boldrin (BSc in Biology; MSc in Environmental biology; PhD in Civil Engineering) is a researcher in Plant Soil Mechanisms at The James Hutton Institute and a research fellow in the EPSRC-funded project “Climate Adaptation Control Technologies for Urban Spaces” at the University of Dundee.
Current role
Environmental social scientist employing a range of social science and environmental research methods, including questionnaire surveys, interviews, social media research and participatory