Welcome to the Knowledge Exchange Awards

Convex Seascape Survey Education Programme

The Convex Seascape Survey is a large, interdisciplinary, international project led by the University of Exeter. Its research aims to investigate the ocean's vital role as the world's largest carbon sink. Over five years, the project will explore and quantify carbon locked in continental shelves, assess the role played by marine life in carbon storage, and determine risks from human activities.

Led by Professor Callum Roberts (PI) along with a team of academics, including Ceri Lewis and Adam Porter, they are co-producing an educational outreach programme with Encounter Edu and Blue Marine Foundation. They are creating a legacy of UK curriculum-aligned lesson packages while ensuring a global reach through live lessons, a free-to-access online repository of resources/activities, and an immersive digital experience. In the non-digital world, artist Naomi Hart is leading a series of informative art workshops and exhibitions.

ReefBudget: A Global Coral Reef Monitoring Tool To Support Reef Conservation And Management

ReefBudget is an online tool developed by Professor Chris Perry and his team that delivers data on coral reef growth potential. He has been working with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA), supporting them in adopting the ReefBudget coral reef monitoring protocol.

This is relevant to NOAA and other agencies because it predicts reef capacity to sustain critical ecosystem functions (e.g., coastal protection, biodiversity, fisheries). NOAA now uses ReefBudget across all its Atlantic and Pacific reef jurisdiction sites and recently funded an Exeter Research Fellow to develop an App-based version for managers.

We Are The Possible

We Are The Possible has pioneered a new way of communicating climate science that engages people intellectually and emotionally at major international negotiations and beyond, helping drive the call to action to safeguard and restore our planet. They help build bridges across cultures and generations, so as to move people from a place of eco-anxiety, anger and despair to a place of understanding, hope and agency.

The We Are The Possible (COP28, Dubai 2023), We Still Have a Chance (COP27, Egypt 2022), and One Chance Left (COP26, UK 2021) projects have been delivered successfully at COP and other fora. Led by Peter Stott, Cecilia Manosa Nyblon and Sally Flint, this project has helped to place the University of Exeter, their partners, and the UK at the heart of the international conversation on confronting the climate crisis with determination and hope, reaching 28 million people worldwide.

ENLIVEN

People with dementia really benefit from outdoor and nature-based experiences but often face barriers to access. Businesses and organisations that manage outdoor sites often lack awareness and knowledge of how to open up opportunities for people with dementia.

To address this issue, ENLIVEN has worked with outdoor providers to co-produce dementia-inclusive, nature-based experiences. Underpinned by research evidence and knowledge exchange activities, ENLIVEN formed 11 bespoke partnerships with historic properties, National Parks, and other outdoor experience providers throughout England and Wales, including the world-renowned sites the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and the Historic Royal Palaces.

The project has brought together people with lived experience of dementia and businesses to co-produce visitor experiences that promote independence, accessibility, wellbeing, and inclusion while supporting organisational knowledge creation and innovation. ENLIVEN is an interdisciplinary project spanning the Business School and the Medical School in collaboration with external co-investigators, which received funding from the UKRI's Healthy Ageing Challenge research programme for 2021-24.

Healthy Parent Carers

The Healthy Parent Carers Programme is a 12-week health and wellbeing course specifically designed for parent carers of disabled children. It has been co-produced by health researchers and parent carers, extensively trialled and commercialised.

The feedback from parent carers who have participated in the programme is overwhelmingly positive, with several describing it as 'life-changing'. Healthy Parent Carers are now seeking to make the programme available to as many parent carers across the UK as possible by partnering with disabled children's charities, local authorities, and NHS England. 

The Citizen Phage Library

The silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance continues to threaten global health, food security and modern medicine. Our most promising sustainable solution lies in the use of natural predators of bacteria called phages that have co-evolved with their bacterial prey for a billion years. Phages are highly specific, clinically safe, genetically tractable and cheap to produce, providing a low-cost precision and personalised medicine to those with drug-resistant infections. 

Through Citizen Science and a partnership with the Environment Agency, the Citizen Phage Library provides phages to clinicians and researchers around the world for use in therapy when no other clinical options remain.

Cultural Heritage Management Diploma Degree For Local Community Archaeology Tourist Guides, Colombian Amazon

The Amazon is in crisis. Saving the forests, the forests' residents who safeguard them, and their bio-cultural heritage are one and the same thing. Since the peace process in 2016, the world-class rock art of the Colombian Amazon has become a driver of positive social transformation, providing the local rural and indigenous communities a viable alternative to growing coca, joining the dissident guerrillas, or deforesting the Amazon for cattle-ranching. 

To this end, the Diploma Degree Project was conceived as an academic support strategy for community tourism guides, who have set up community organisations that combine tourism management with the conservation of cultural and natural assets.

Section 28 and its afterlives in the South West

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the repeal of Section 28, which prohibited local authorities and schools from “promoting” homosexuality between 1988 and 2003, the Section 28 and its Afterlives project team collaborated with local LGBTQ+ organisations, including the Intercom Trust, the leading LGBTQ+ charity in the South West. 

These collaborations have helped raise wider awareness of this difficult period of local LGBTQ+ history, created opportunities for reflection among those directly affected by the legislation, and enabled LGBTQ+ people of all generations to respond creatively to this history and to concerningly similar attacks on LGBTQ+ rights in the present.

The Community Law Clinic in Partnership

The Community Law Clinic is a service embedded in the local community with the overarching objective of creating a just, equitable, inclusive, and fair society. The Clinic provides pro bono legal services to those who cannot access justice due to barriers that can affect their financial situation, health, or understanding of a complex legal system. 

Their new partnership with Citizens Advice Teignbridge has elevated their student-led clinical offering in a new area of law to meet increasing demand.

The Exeter Tutoring Model

The South West Social Mobility Commission (SWSMC) Exeter Tutoring Model has positively impacted school-aged pupils. Through partnerships with schools, universities, and others, SWSMC has scaled up their model from their original pilot to reach around 700 pupils at 40 schools from Cornwall to Northumberland. 

At Exeter, students became tutors through an accredited module (a part of their degree). Then, they went into schools to deliver a course designed by an Exeter-based Headteacher. After the nine-week intervention, pupils’ ability to write accurate sentences improved by 100%.

The Exeter Tutoring Model has been praised by the Department for Education ministerial team and Labour’s shadow education team.

HistoryCity

HistoryCity is a unique app that expands heritage by translating world-leading research into immersive experiences that bring the past to life in the streets of the present. Innovative in platform design and first-person storytelling, HistoryCity has grown from a small impact experiment in 2014 to a self-sustaining venture.

Working with partners such as the app firms Calvium and Apple, universities, museums, and heritage organisations in the UK, Europe, and the US, they have created impactful public history resources and educational packages for students. This collaboration has also enabled civic bodies to provide new heritage interpretations and manage visitor traffic effectively.

SENISCA: Commercialisation of the University’s RNA Biology Expertise

Professor Lorna Harries' RNA Biology group has created a groundbreaking cell rejuvenation technology, commercialised within biotech as oligonucleotide therapeutics and cosmeceuticals as anti-ageing formulations. The resultant spin-out company is SENISCA. 

The success of SENISCA's commercialisation journey to date is evidenced by over £7M of equity funds raised, >£1M of Innovate UK grants, winning the 2021 OBN Best UK Biotech Start-up award, being a finalist for the Reuters Health entrepreneur award in 2022, and being the only UK company shortlisted for the global Nature spin-off 2023 prize.

Watercress Research

For over a decade, the 'watercress team' at the University of Exeter has researched the chemistry behind watercress's beneficial effects on reducing human skin irritation, with the crucial initial help of charitable funding from the Torbay Medical Research Fund. 

In 2019, Paul and Kyle co-founded the spin-out company Watercress Research Limited, focusing on sustainability and regional partnerships. 

In January 2024, Watercress Research Limited launched its first three skin care products under the "Prof & Doc" brand. This highly successful UK retail product launch has achieved astounding early sales and attracted widespread regional and national media coverage.

Microplastics as Vectors of Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquatic Systems

Emily Stevenson joined the University of Exeter in 2019 for her Masters in Conservation Science and Policy. During her MSc, she worked under the supervision of Professor Angus Buckling and Dr Aimee Murray, where they co-designed a research project to investigate the role of microplastics in spreading diseases. She is now in the third year of her PhD, researching the same topic but with supervision additions from Plymouth Marine Laboratory: Professor Penelope Lindeque and Dr Matthew Cole. During this time, she has worked in further roles in the community, industry and policy, which have increased the project’s broader impact. 

Opas Guides

Opas Guides is a small start-up that aims to "make medicine better" by creating custom surgical instruments and personalising medicine. They use patient CT scans to create digital twins of patient joints and model them in various movements to help surgeons visualise and understand their patients better. 

Opas Guides offers an 'Implant Placement Optimisation' service to help surgeons decide the best placement for an implant and design and manufacture patient-specific instrumentation for use in orthopaedic surgeries. This helps to accurately realise implant placement using Computer-Aided Design, fundamental engineering principles of design and additive manufacturing.

Phage Therapy: Understanding and Predicting Treatment Outcomes

The antimicrobial resistance crisis is a growing threat to healthcare, with an estimated 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Phage therapy represents a promising complement to antibiotics, and a recent report has shown treatment success in 61% of infections. Phage therapy uses viruses to infect and kill bacteria to treat infections. However, understanding of bacteria-phage interactions in clinical environments is limited. The Phage Therapy team partners with clinicians actively using phage to treat life threatening infections. They have shown that laboratory studies can predict treatment outcomes, and that phage resistance can be beneficial in treatment success. These insights are important for the development of therapeutics for individual patients which harness laboratory studies to estimate the most effective phages for treatment.

Digital Transformation of the Built Environment

Digital technologies are critical to the competitive advantage of organisations by enhancing informed decision making, productivity, and fostering economic growth. Despite making a significant contribution to the UK economy, the adoption of digital technologies has lagged in the built environment due to the sector’s dependence on legacy systems, inadequate budget, lack of standards, difficulty in realising benefits and inadequate cross-departmental communication or silos. 

This digital transformation project is currently working with Network Rail (infrastructure owner and operator) and Natural Building Systems (SME and construction product supplier) to improve the sector's traceability, sustainability and circularity. 

Ground Truth: Simulating Performance of Underground Water Mains with AI and Sensors

Water mains failure is a c. £500m direct cost to water utilities annually. Mains breaks result in substantial fines for water companies, and leaks create significant pressure on utilities in an age of increasing water scarcity. 

The University of Exeter and Datatecnics embarked in 2021 on a KTP to digitally map the underground network of pipes using AI and sensors. At the University, the Associate has worked on creating an entirely novel dataset of hydraulic and ground loads to calibrate a machine learning model which can then predict when pipes will fail more accurately than any present solution. 

STRAWS: Supporting Teachers, Resilience, And Wellbeing, Slovakia

The STRAWS project aims to transform Slovakia's education system. Frequent changes in political leadership have resulted in stagnation in educational policymaking, hindering the shift away from directive teaching methods rooted in the country's communist past. This has led to low student performance and poor mental health experiences in schools. Teachers lack the skills to manage their wellbeing and support their students. 

The STRAWS team has collaborated with the Coalition of Schools in Mental Health in Slovakia and the Social and Health Education project in Ireland to create an evidence-based programme that will inform educational practice and policy in Slovakia.

3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment Technical Report

The Technical Report for the 3rd UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) was delivered by a large, multi-disciplinary consortium of experts led by Professor Richard Betts. This created new knowledge in the form of a comprehensive assessment of the risks climate change brings to the UK and the urgency of adaptation. 

This directly informed the advice the Climate Change Committee gave to the UK government and the Devolved Administrations, which in turn informed the report to the government to Parliament as required by the Climate Change Act. It also informed the development of the 3rd National Adaptation Programme.

Exeter at the Heart of the UK’s Metamaterials Revolution

With key collaborators at QineitQ and Dstl, the Metamaterials Team is the driving force behind the UK's Metamaterials Revolution. The Revolution has its roots in Exeter's hugely successful industry-aligned CDT in Metamaterials, with ambitions progressing through the EPSRC Big Idea, award of multiple million-pound grants, and establishment of the UK Metamaterials Network. 

The Team has firmly established the Centre of Metamaterials Research and Innovation (CMRI) at Exeter and the activities and membership of the national network, which today exceeds 800 industry, governmental, and academic representatives. Working together since 2018, the Metamaterials Team has enabled national leadership in this area of sovereign importance.

Global Carbon Budget 

The Global Carbon Budget (GCB) is the most comprehensive, independent, scientific report on global carbon emissions and sinks. It is consistently a significant science story at the UNFCCC COP negotiations, where it is launched every year. It informs and influences the climate talks at the highest levels, including talks with the UN General Secretary. 

Annually, it estimates the remaining carbon budget before the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C and 2˚C targets are breached, providing a reality check to world leaders and setting out the scale of the action required to address climate change in this critical decade for climate action.

Increasing Public Awareness of Medical Mycology

Fungal infections are commonly considered skin infections, like thrush or athlete’s foot. However, invasive fungal infections cause approximately 3 million deaths each year. Despite this devastating impact, they remain critically understudied. We need more accurate diagnostics, better antifungal drugs, and a deeper understanding of fungal disease.

At the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM), a key objective is to raise awareness of the fungal threat and highlight the challenges facing researchers, clinicians and patients. To address this, the Centre’s Public Engagement and Communications team engage the public each year in new, innovative ways across disciplines and audiences.

Professor Grant Stentiford

Chairperson of judges for the Sustainable Futures Award

Grant is Chief Scientist at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), which plays a leading role in providing evidence to decision makers across Defra and government. Cefas focuses on the sustainable use of resources from rivers, seas and oceans.

Previous roles have included Principal Pathologist at Cefas, Director of a European Union Reference Laboratory, Head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases and co-Director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Futures Centre at the University of Exeter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRC Path) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS) in 2016.

He is accountable for implementation of the Science, Evidence and Advice Strategy (SEAS), which centres on applying approaches to evidence provision for better policy making.

Carolyn Cadman

Judge for the Sustainable Futures Award

Carolyn is Chief Sustainability and Natural Resources Officer for the Pennon Group and her team deliver projects to lower carbon emissions, increase nature recovery and improve the sustainability of operations, including mainstreaming nature-based solutions.

Prior to joining South West Water, Carolyn was Chief Executive of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, and has served in national roles for Natural England and the Marine Management Organisation.

Carolyn is a Director of SWW's partnership with Exeter University, the Centre for Resilience, Environment, Waste and Water. Carolyn sits on the Board of the Devon Local Nature Partnership and chairs the Cornwall Catchment Partnership.

Professor Konstantinos Chalvatzis

Judge for the Sustainable Futures Award

Konstantinos joined the University of Exeter in 2024 as the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation for the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy. Before that he was Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Associate Dean for Innovation and Academic Director for ClimateUEA at the University of East Anglia.

His research focuses on energy sector innovation and business sustainability practices and his projects have attracted funding of approximately £22m. Konstantinos has held visiting posts with the Universities of Bologna, Maryland, College Park and ESCP.

Professor Carol Routledge

Chairperson of judges for the Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences Award

Professor Carol Routledge is an R&D professional and drug development expert with over 35 years of experience within UK and US based major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, plus VC and non-profit sectors with a focus on drug acquisition and profiling of NCEs and biologics.  

Prof. Routledge currently serves as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of Brandaris Therapeutics, a neuropsychiatry-focused biotech founded by BGV. Prior to Brandaris, Carol was Chief Medical & Scientific officer of Small Pharma, a biotech start up focussed on developing psychedelic treatments for mental health disorders. Prof. Routledge has also held leadership roles in Syntex, Wyeth, BTG, and GSK.

Professor John Love

Judge for the Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences Award

John Love is Professor of Synthetic Biology and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation at the University of Exeter. He brings over two decades of experience in translational research, combining scientific expertise with business training to drive collaboration between academia and industry.

John’s research focuses on synthetic biology, including the development of microbial biocatalysts for low-impact alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. He is a strong advocate for open innovation and SME collaboration, leading projects in renewable energy and environmental biotechnology.

Alongside his academic role, John supports entrepreneurs and early-stage companies through mentoring and strategic advice. He has served on national strategy boards, advised governments on bioeconomy development. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and Vice President of the Society for Experimental Biology.

Professor Jeremy Shears FRSC, FRSB, FRAS

Judge for the Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences Award

Jeremy is Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Manchester where he is also Honorary Professor in Chemistry. He is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s board on early career fellowships, and of advisory boards at the Universities of Exeter and Newcastle.

Previously Jeremy held commercial and technology leadership positions at Shell in the UK, Singapore, UAE, India and Belgium, across businesses including chemicals, lubricants, (bio)fuels and new energies. Most recently as Chief Scientist, he led Shell’s innovation agenda focussing on bioenergy, circular chemicals and nature-based solutions.

Professor Will Higbee

Chairperson of judges for the Fair, Just and Inclusive Society Award

Professor Will Higbee is Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter.

His background is in film studies with a particular interest in questions of how theories of transnational cinema intersect with transformation and challenge being faced by screen industries. He has led international research projects between the UK, US, Belgium and Morocco, established the MA in International Film Business (in partnership with the London Film School) and is co-founder of eXe Film, the UK’s first film distribution company based within a university. He is a board member of Screen Devon and led the University of Exeter's team that worked with regional partners to found Screen Devon, the county’s first screen agency, in 2024.

Professor Sue Prince

Judge for the Fair, Just and Inclusive Society Award

Professor Sue Prince is an Emeritus Professor in the Law School at the University of Exeter, with expertise in access to justice, digital civil justice reform, mediation and legal innovation. She designs and evaluates dispute resolution processes, including court-based mediation and online dispute resolution.

Professor Prince has led empirical studies for the Ministry of Justice and the Civil Justice Council, and co-chaired initiatives on digital inclusion in justice system design. She is an accredited civil, commercial and workplace mediator and a community mediator with Devon Mediation.

She has extensive senior management experience and developed award-winning educational and pro bono programmes, including establishing Exeter’s first law clinic. She sponsors the Innovation Award for the Devon and Somerset Law Society and works with Tech4Good SW.

Martin Kane

Judge for the Fair, Just and Inclusive Society Award

Professor Michelle Law

Chairperson of judges for the Commercialisation Project of the Year Award

Michelle is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Exeter and an independent strategy and M&A adviser with over 20 years’ global experience across financial services and health innovation. She is COO of venture capital firm QantX and works at the intersection of research, investment and real-world implementation, supporting the translation of ideas from discovery to impact.

A strong advocate for knowledge exchange and research translation, Michelle writes on health innovation and patient experience, informed by nearly two decades living with type 1 diabetes.

Professor Chris Lawrence

Judge for the Commercialisation Project of the Year Award

Yolanda Hill

Judge for the Commercialisation Project of the Year Award

Dr Dreolin Fleischer

Chairperson of judges for the Community Impact Award

Dreolin is an Engaged Research Manager at the University of Exeter, supporting researchers to work with diverse publics across the research lifecycle. She champions inclusive and equitable engagement within the University and serves as Secretary to the Public Engagement Strategic Advisory Group. Dreolin also manages an annual funding call that enables collaborative projects between University researchers and external partners, often involving communities of practice or place.

With previous experience as an embedded Research Fellow within Devon and Cornwall Police, Dreolin’s work sits at the intersection of research and practice, with a strong focus on knowledge exchange and real-world impact.

Dr Nicola Frost

Judge for the Community Impact Award

Dr Nicola Frost is Head of Impact, Insight and Learning at Devon Community Foundation. A social anthropologist by background, she holds degrees from The Universities of Cambridge and London (Goldsmiths). Nicola has a long-term interest in the relationship between civil society organisations and the state, and has spent her career working with and for voluntary sector organisations in Indonesia, Australia, London, and Devon. Since 2017, her work at the Community Foundation has focused on understanding the value of voluntary sector activity, and on facilitating relationships between these civic organisations and academic and public sector institutions. She is a long-term collaborator with the University of Exeter, and sits on the panel for the University’s Engaged & Participatory Research Fund.

Dr Sanja Djerasimovic

Judge for the Community Impact Award

Sanja Djerasimovic is Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research and Impact Fellow, and a higher education researcher based in the School of Education, University of Exeter.

Sanja has over ten years’ experience studying UK and international research policy and (early career) academic work and identities, as well as collaborating with colleagues across humanities and social science disciplines, and university professional services, to identify, evidence, and narrate the ways in which university research creates ‘real-world’ impact.

Pursuing her passion for supporting and rewarding diverse academic pathways and careers, she is also a co-lead of the regional (Southwest and South Wales) cluster of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.

Jasmine Hammond

Chairperson of judges for the Bright Future Award 1: Student Innovation

Colin Dart

Judge for the Bright Future Award 1: Student Innovation

Abbi Hall

Judge for the Bright Future Award 1: Student Innovation

Brigid Howarth

Judge for the Bright Future Award 2: Early Career Research Impact

Brigid is Assistant Director of the Sector and Corporate Partnerships Team at the University of Exeter, supporting impact development, research collaboration, and business engagement across the Faculties. With 30 years’ experience in knowledge exchange and income generation within Russell Group universities, she has also held external examiner and visiting lecturer roles at the Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London. Her background spans fiction publishing, the cultural sector, and leading a creative economy consultancy, before joining Exeter from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr Rebecca Whear

Judge for the Bright Future Award 2: Early Career Research Impact

Rebecca Whear is a Senior Research Fellow in evidence synthesis at PenARC (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West), where she has worked for over 15 years on fixed-term contracts. Her earlier roles included research in youth offending, children’s services and hospital R&D. Much of Rebecca’s career has been spent as an early career researcher, balancing caring responsibilities alongside professional challenges. Rebecca is an ECR representative, working to amplify the voices of early career researchers and improve their experience through listening and advocacy. She recognises that no single person can represent every ECR experience, which is why open communication through email, networks and town halls is central.

Professor Geraint Evans

Chairperson of judges for the Bright Future Award 2: Early Career Research Impact

Geraint Evans is an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. His research interests include Applied Systems Theory, Capabilities Development, Information Theory, Organisational Science and the Socio-Technical dynamics of AI integration. He has previously led AI research and capability development in both the public and private sector. He holds degrees from the University of Exeter, King’s College London and Cranfield University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Strategy and Security Institute at Exeter, having previously been a Senior Research Fellow at the Defence Data Research Centre.

Chris Evans

Chairperson of judges for the Knowledge Exchange Solution of the Year Award

Jim Sibson

Judge for the Knowledge Exchange Solution of the Year Award

Jim Sibson is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Project Professional with Babcock International, responsible for developing research and business collaborations growing technology capability.

Jim started his career with Lucas Industries. He moved to Hamilton Sundstrand, Claverham where he led the programme to design and manufacture innovative valves and actuators for the Boeing Dreamliner. He joined Babcock as Project Leader for the Spanish S-80 Submarine; taking these products through design and supply of first hardware. He was appointed Head of Product Support before supporting the implementation of Group Technology Strategy.

Jim is an APM Fellow and Honorary Associate Professor in Engineering.

Professor Matt Lobley

Judge for the Knowledge Exchange Solution of the Year Award

Matt Lobley is a rural social scientist, with over 30 years of research experience, drawing primarily on the disciplines of Rural Sociology and Geography. He has a long-standing track record in the generation of external research income from a range of sources including Research Councils, Government Departments, NGOs, Charities and the private sector. His research largely focuses on understanding influences on and impacts of farm household behaviour. One of his main areas of expertise is in the mental health and well-being of farm households and family life-cycle and succession issues on family farms. Matt is a member of the Board of Rothamsted Research, the National Trust Research Strategy group and is a member of Great South West Food Security Programme Board

Warwick Event Services
Production Sponsor

Warwick are an event production company with a reputation for the design, build and delivery of events that really stand out. Since the 80’s Warwick Event Services has been working with their clients offering creative designs for live events, from conferences and exhibitions, to product launches and awards dinners.

Their fully train staff members boast superb skills in Audio Visual & Technical services, Exhibition Services, Shell Scheme build, electrical and lighting solutions. They have HQ’s in both Devon and Northern Ireland, and produce events across the whole of the UK & Europe.

Visit their website: https://warwickeventservices.com/