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Judith Tsouvalis

Research Fellow in Geography, University of Sheffield

Research Fellow in Geography, University of Sheffield Judith has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. She lectured at the University of Oxford for three years before embarking on a full-time research career. Judith has worked on new participatory approaches (the RELU-funded Loweswater Care Project, where participation was modelled on Bruno Latour’s understanding of ‘new collectives’); science-publics-politics relations; plant biosecurity and ash dieback; precision farming; industrial forestry; and trees. Judith is a member of the joint Defra-Natural England Expert Panel on Social Science Evidence for Improving Environmental Land Management Outcomes. In 2011, she was awarded a Lancaster University Staff Prize (Loweswater Care Project) for "making complicated research or topics accessible and exciting to the general public, young people and non-specialists". From 2008-2010, she was a member of the Environment Agency’s Science Task Group for the Bassenthwaite and Windermere Restoration Programme (Loweswater Care Project).