Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems

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
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?