Profile

I live in London with friends. I’m half Welsh (the better half) and half English. I’m a flexitarian (mostly vegetarian, but eat meat when I want to).  My favorite podcast is The Food Chain from the BBC World Service.

My main interest is trying to understand if we all eat healthier (and therefore improve our own health), will this also improve our planet’s health. To explore this question I use information on current diets, and make small changes to see what the potential environmental impacts would be. My work mainly focuses on India. Vegetables, which are good for our health, tend to have a lower impact on the environment than other foods (use less water, and lead to less greenhouse gas emissions). So what we usually find is that if we eat a healthier diet, this would be better for our current planet.

However, our environment is changing, which means crops might struggle to grow in the future. Therefore, my research team also tries to understand how climate change will impact the ability for us to produce healthy foods, and if we can do something about it.

I wake up and have a coffee straight away (I’m not a morning person). Usually a commute to my office at the University, then I spend some of my day sitting at my computer playing around with numbers (data), and making nice graphs. I will also have a call our meeting with colleagues in India (sometimes I get to go there too). I might then do some teaching or marking, spend some time reading about other ongoing research, or writing about my work.