Find an expert
Welcome to the Durham University Media Guide to Expertise, a resource for journalists seeking informed comment on a wide variety of topical issues.
To find an expert in a specialist area, please use the 'search' facility to search by keyword or expert surname.
Plants & agriculture
Parent category: Environment
Professor B. Huntley
Professor, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41282
Leader of Work Package 1, Tipping Points Research Project
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41282
Specialist expertise:
- biogeography
- climate change
- global change
- natural resource management
- palaeoecology
- palaeoenvironments
- plant ecology
- wildlife
Prof Paul Sillitoe
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Specialist expertise:
- International development, esp natural resources
- Natural resources management
- Oceania - esp. New Guinea
- Subsistence farming
- Sustainable development
- Tribal peoples.
Prof AR Slabas
Professor, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41354
Specialist expertise:
- breeding strains of oil seed rape capable of yielding new oils for industrial use
- regulation of genes & proteins involved in lipid biosynthesis
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