Dr Fiona Borthwick
Programme Director for MSc in Global Food Security and Nutrition
- University of Edinburgh, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
Contact details
- Email: fiona.borthwick@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, R(D)SVS, Easter Bush Campus, Roslin
- City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Fiona has a PhD in Environmental Science and Policy from Central European University - her dissertation focused on the international approaches to environmental management in post conflict regions of South Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. She has taught environmental management and Environmental Impact Assessment for over 10 years at Scotlands Rural College (SRUC) and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her interest in social networks and behaviour change and conflict led her to focusing on issues of food security and sustainable agriculture. Fiona has used her research on social network analysis and behaviour change models to investigate barriers to sustainable agriculture innovations, Integrated Pest Management, and the links between sustainable agriculture and diets. She was Programme Director of the campus-based MSc in Food Security at SRUC/University of Edinburgh for 5 years, and chaired the Professional Certificate in Strategic Food Security Planning for the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies in 2014 and 2017.
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IPM for Barley Farming in Scotland
Research output: › Digital or Visual Products (Published) -
The effect of animal health compensation on ‘positive’ behaviours towards exotic disease reporting and implementing biosecurity: A review, a synthesis and a research agenda. Preventative Veterinary Medicine
In:
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, vol. 122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2015.09.003
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Policies and actions to shift eating patterns: what works?: A review of the evidence of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at shifting diets in more sustainable and healthy directions
(85 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published)