The James Hutton Institute – JHI

The JHI was formed in April 2011, bringing together the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) and the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) to combine existing strengths in land use and environmental research. Its work is funded by the Scottish Government, the European Union, and other competitive funding sources. The JHI has continued the long tradition of the MLURI and the SCRI in participating in and co-ordinating interdisciplinary research projects, funded in Framework 7 and previous programmes.

James Hutton Institute
Errol Road, Invergowrie, Dundee. DD2 5DA. UK
Phone: +44 1224 395000
Mail:   Website: www.hutton.ac.uk

 

 

Gary Polhill Information and Computational Sciences.The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.	WP2 LeaderSkype: gary.polhill

Tony Craig Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences. The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

Skype: dr.tony.craig

He is an environmental psychologist whose main research interests are on the relationships between psychological factors and environmentally relevant behaviour. Tony has been involved in a number of studies looking at individual and community level responses to climate change in Scotland, including a large field study looking at the effectiveness of energy feedback technology in facilitating energy reduction behaviours at the household scale. He was a member of the FP7 GILDED research team, and is currently a work-package leader on the LOCAW FP7 project. He sits on the board of the International Association of People Environment Studies (IAPS).

Mark Brewer Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, UK.

Skype: mark.j.brewer

Dr. Mark J Brewer is a principal statistician with experience in the analysis of large data sets recorded in space and/or time. He joined Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) in 2001. Mark is now responsible for the ecology and environmental science subject area within BioSS, and recent research has considered analysis of automatic recording data in hydrology as well as linking species distribution to habitat changes in ecology. He works regularly with social scientists, particularly on issues with measurements on ordinal scales. Mark is currently involved in the FP7 MiSAFE project.

Anke Fischer Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences. The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

Skype: a.d.fischer

Dr Anke Fischer is a senior research scientist whose work addresses the psychological and governance aspects of natural resource use. She has participated in several EU-funded projects as a collaborator and workpackage leader, among them also GILDED, and has coordinated joint data collection, analysis and write-up for a number of cross-country studies. For GILDED, she led an analysis of psychological factors influencing support for governance approaches to address climate change and sustainable resource use, which included data from five countries.

Patricia Melo Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences. The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

Skype: pcmelo

Patricia Melo is an applied economist in spatial economics whose main research interests fall within the fields of spatial economics and transport economics. She has undertaken research on the relationship between transport provision, agglomeration economies and economic performance; travel demand modelling; wider economic impacts of transport investment; transport appraisal; and international benchmarking of output and cost efficiency of public transport operators.