Steven Emery
2025
Steven is a social scientist at Rothamsted interested in the intersection between farming culture, the political economy of food systems and agri-environmental governance. His work has explored the barriers and opportunities to greater farmer collaboration in food production and the delivery of landscape-scale environmental benefits. He is also keen to ensure that farmers’ local and experiential knowledge is recognised and incorporated into decision-making around sustainable food futures.
My Sessions
Optimising the potential of farmer-scientist collaboration
This session moves the discussion about collaborative research beyond its well-rehearsed and widely accepted benefits to focus on the changes needed to UK research funding culture to enable optimal and equal status farmer-scientist collaboration that starts from the first discussion of research need and design. Building on a collaborative project between Rothamsted and PFL, this […]