Dr Jackie Stroud is an agricultural soil scientist based at Rothamsted Research, England.

She studied Environmental Geology at RHUL, (Royal Holloway, University of London), then soil science – specialising in soil pollution at Lancaster University.  This was followed by postdocs at Rothamsted Research in fertiliser use to improve crop quality, and the University of New South Wales, Australia, to remediate acid sulfate soils.  Jackie leads the co-created farmland earthworm survey (#WorldWormWeek) which is a publicly funded research initiative through the NERC Soil Security Programme (2016 – 2019, Ploughing on Regardless?).