Dr Niamh Mahon
Environmental Social Scientist
Niamh Mahon is an environmental social scientist, with an interdisciplinary background, working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) group at the James Hutton Institute. Niamh is interested in stakeholders’, and in particular farmers’ practices, and their perspectives and understandings of sustainability in farming and the wider food system.
Before joining the James Hutton Institute, Niamh worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Hull on the Wellcome Trust Funded FIELD project, exploring the sustainable reduction of endemic livestock disease in the UK. She also worked as a research assistant in socio-economics and policy for the Organic Research Centre.
Niamh has a PhD on the development of stakeholder-sensitive indicators of the Sustainable Intensification of UK agriculture and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security.
