Our Research People

Dr. Martin Wilkes

Contact for hydroecology, echohydraulics, hydrometry and water quality monitoring, fish aquatic invertebrate and plant biology, taxonomy and ecology | Email: ab9323@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 75574 25307 

Dr. Julia Wright

Contact for: Cuban farming and food systems, Eco-psychology, green ecology and traditional knowledge systems, Regenerative agriculture and permaculture, Agriculture and human nutrition, Quantum/5^th Dimension agriculture (including biodynamics, Stabilisation Agriculture: Building environmental and social resilience to natural and man-made disasters. Email: aa9469@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 1621

Colin Anderson

Contact for food, agriculture, diverse economies and social movements | Email: ab7359@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 1619

Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz

Contact for ecology and environmental change | Email: ab6340@coventry.ac.uk

Dr. Luis Sañudo-Fontaneda

Academic

Research Fellow and Agroecological and Water Systems Engineer |  ab3221@coventry.ac.uk
Luis moved to Coventry University in 2014 and joined the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) where he is currently developing his activity as a Researcher in Civil Engineering and Water Management.

Dr. Alex Franklin

Contact for Water and Resilient Communities | Email: alex.franklin@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 75574 25456

Dr. Liz Trenchard

Contact for distribution and taxonomy of tropical tree species; organic agriculture; ecology and conservation, environmental impacts of short food supply chains; plant ecology; links between agriculture, nutrition and health; agrobiodiversity | Email: liz.trenchard@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 7043

Dr. Ulrich Schmutz

Contact for agroecology, ecological economics, organic horticulture, agriculture | Email: ulrich.schmutz@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7630 8212

Donna Udall

Contact for soil science, biochar, anaerobic digestate, agriculture and farming | Email: donna.udall@coventry.ac.uk

Dr. Chiara Tornaghi

Contact for urban agriculture, food justice and sovereignty, insurgent/grassroots planning, social production of public space, urban metabolism and participatory action-research | Email: ac0952@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 75574 25355

Dr. Michael St John Warne

Contact for sources, transport and effects of pollutants; pesticides; pharmaceuticals; endocrine disrupting chemicals; environmental quality guidelines and ecological risk assessment | Email: michael.warne@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: (office) +44 (0) 24776 51677 and (mobile) +44 (0) 75574 25411

Moya Kneafsey

Contact for sustainable communities, food security, foodwebs, short food supply chains, local food systems, food planning | Email: m.kneafsey@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 1608

Priscilla Claeys

Contact for indoor environmental quality, energy policy, renewable energy, transient system simulation, water efficiency and management | Email: abdullahi.ahmed@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 8097

Deepa Joshi | Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Email: deepa.joshi@coventry.ac.uk

Elise Wach

Student

PhD Student| wache@coventry.ac.uk
Contact for agroecology, food sovereignty and participatory research

Liliane Binego

Contact for food security in emergencies, peace building, disaster risk reduction, development, engagement, approaches to resilience, water, sanitation and hygiene

Dr. Lopamudra Saxena

Contact for environment and development; food security, gender and climate change in South Asia; food and communities; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies | Email: lopa.saxena@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 75574 25327

Georgina McAllister

Student

PhD Student| mcallisg@uni.coventry.ac.uk
With an NGO background since the early 1990s, George’s experience spans both humanitarian and development sectors in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Tom Wakeford

Academic

Reader in Public Science| wakeford.tom@gmail.com
Dr Tom Wakeford is Lead Practitioner at the Centre’s People’s Knowledge and Transdisciplinary Working Group, which represents the Centre on the international AR+ initiative.

Luke Owen

Contact for food systems, short food chains, community resillience and sustainable livelihoods | Email: Luke.owen@coventry.ac.uk | Phone: +44 (0) 24 7765 1616