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Are you looking for an academic to provide expert commentary/analysis for a news story/documentary?
This experts directory is a searchable database of Queen’s academics who are interested in talking to the media about their areas of expertise.
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Dr Hanson is an academic, award-winning social entrepreneur, snow leopard conservationist and former community farmer who specialises in human-wildlife coexistence and rural development.
Expertise: Social aspects of conservation and agriculture, and how these relate to other social processes, including tourism and enterprise. Specifically, coexistence between large carnivore conservation and livestock farming, as well as social and community farming.
Dr Carroll is an expert in farm and companion-animal welfare science and human-animal interactions
Expertise: Cats, pigs, animal welfare; human behaviour change; domestication, evolutionary psychology
Specialises in the effects of animal management on their performance, ability to cope with challenges, such as pathogens, and environmental impact.
Expertise: Environmental and climate-change impacts of agriculture; Sustainability in animal food systems; sustainability of agricultural systems; environmental impacts of agricultural systems; reducing agricultural carbon footprint; reducing agricultural emissions