Dr Jay Burns

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Biography

Background

Jay is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Edinburgh with an interest in the land system. He is currently developing new knowledge on scenarios and modelling to evaluate global biodiversity policy, including to model drivers and impacts of land use and land use change, with substantial links to food systems.  This includes new scenarios of livestock futures. Jay is an interdisciplinary researcher with previous work spanning public attitudes to agriculture and land use policy, as well as research on what it means for livestock to be resilient and efficient in the context of climate change.

Project activity

Current projects:

UKRI (PDRA): Transforming the DEbate about livestock system transformation (TRADE)

DEFRA (named PDRA): BIO-Futures: models and scenario for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

UKRI (PI) : Can we agree some fundamental of food system transformation?

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