Sustainable Cropping Systems and Food Security: To provide strategic vision and leadership to ensure we maximise the value of our environment and rural economies for the communities we serve. Exploring how we can maximise efficiency and technology in aspects of land-use to secure food-security, whilst maintaining a balanced and sustainable future for the environment we live in – one health, one welfare.

Disease, Health and Physiology: Using model systems to examine the impact of host-diet, host-immunity, and host-density on disease dynamics, disease transmission and host-resistance. This has several implications for the success of pest-control strategies, animal welfare, the environment, human-wellbeing and land-user wildlife conflict.