PhD Students
Academy staff are associated with several students registered at other Universities - this lists only those with formal University of Edinburgh registration.
Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title |
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Aoife Behan | Examining the key barriers, levers and incentives to food procurement in order to embed sustainable farming and consumption practices |
Kirsty Blair | Livestock Futures: The role of framing in informing transformational pathways |
Apisit Boupai | Does crop genotype utilisation of soil organic matter lower greenhouse gas emissions from soil? |
Beth Bridge | Exploring wood pastures in Scotland for biodiversity and society |
Leslie Cai | Regenerative grazing methods for N cycle soil management, biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions |
Kaela Connors | Global distribution of environmental impacts from changes to UK food consumption |
Ros Craddock | General pedigree tracking of alleles causing hereditary disorders in dogs. |
Asa Dant | Regenerative agriculture - fix or fiction for soil health? |
Martín Del Valle Menéndez | Governing agriculture for sustainable diets |
Abdishakur Diriye | Exploring innovative ways of access to and use of finances for pastoralists to cope with droughts. |
Poppy Frater | Is mob grazing beneficial for soil health and the environment? |
Lina González Gordon | Epidemiology of Foot-and-Mouth (FMD) disease in Uganda |
Jillian Gordon | Livestock breeding goals & the environment |
Kim Hay | An investigation into genetic improvement of lamb survival and mothering behaviour in extensive sheep flocks |
Sirimon Thomas | Operationalising One Health for early warning of food insecurity and socio-ecological system breakdown in northern Kenya |
Laura Higham | Cost effective mitigation of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance |
Joseph Hills | Precision livestock technologies to improve welfare: needs and constraints of farmers and veterinary surgeons |
Benjamin Horne | Soil health in Nepal’s Terai region: exploring perceptions and practices |
Helen Hughes | Mathematical modelling to enable soil carbon sequestration globally |
Sonya Kalakonda | The role of legumes in achieving net zero: reducing nitrogen losses and improving soil health. |
Deksha Kapoor | A Data-Driven, Community-Based Approach to Evaluating and Improving Scottish Food Environments |
Jackson Kilonzi | Optimizing agricultural inputs informed by soil health and the soil microbiome |
April Liu | Environmental, social, and corporate governance in Chinese food and agriculture |
Abahan Majumdar | Impacts of climate change on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and crop productivity in the rice-based wetland agroecosystems in Bangladesh |
George Tsitati | Assessing locally-led anticipatory action options to climate induced humanitarian crises in East Africa |
Hellen Mbaya | Regulatory regimes and tools for detection of genome edited organisms and/or their products |
Amy McGoohan | One Health Aquaculture: Healthy Food, Healthy Animals, Healthy Ecosystems |
Patrick Miner | Modelling the human and environmental health potential from cutting 90% of cars in Edinburgh |
Karla Molina Galindo | Guatemalan Banana Plantations Transitioning From Traditional To Sustainable Farming Practices |
Rosie Morrison | Social Networks, Risk Management and Uptake of Improved Dairy Technologies in East Africa |
Puff Mukwaya | Evaluating returns to climate emergency humanitarian early intervention. |
Emma Mutch | Application of random regression and genomic models to study growth curves in UK beef cattle and sheep and estimate Genotype x Environment interaction |
John Mutua | Estimating livestock diets in support of improved estimation of greenhouse gas emissions for the livestock sector – a case study in East Africa |
Carys Redman-White | Antimicrobial use and resistance: modelling the animal-human interface |
Alexandra Sadler | Investigating the distribution and exchange of agroecological products in South India |
Aimen Sattar | Modelling water saving behaviours in Egyptian agriculture |
Aditya Singh | A Data Ethics Framework for Agriculture |
Nishmeet Singh | Understanding and Improving Food Environments, Diets and Nutrition |
Jacqueline Tereza Da Silva | Comparing the economic, environmental and social impacts of baseline diets with less meat-heavy diets |
Alexander Vonderschmidt | Impact on population and environmental health of the UK National Food Strategy goal for reducing meat |
Alex Merrington | The use of remote sensing to understand biodiversity mediated ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes |
Diorbhail Wentworth | Facilitating the circular economy in India’s food security: the social, economic and agronomic barriers and opportunities of sewage |
Chenzhe Xu | Evaluating the suitability of biochar amendments for soil improvement |
Haosheng Yang | Composition-function relationship of soil microbial diversity for nutrient cycling under climate change |
Han Zheng | Do cover crops have a positive legacy for C and N cycling? |