Professor Rachel Norman FRSE
Chair of Food Security and Sustainability, Institutional Dean for Research Engagement and Performance, University of Stirling
Rachel Norman received a BSc Hons in Mathematics from the University of Liverpool in 1991 and then did a PhD in mathematical biology there, graduating in 1995. She spent a year as a postdoc in the zoology department in Oxford before coming to the University of Stirling in 1996 as a lecturer in the department of Computing Science and Mathematics. Her research focuses on mathematical models of infectious disease dynamics and control. Most of her work has been in animal disease, with specific expertise in tick-borne infections. In 2013, she was promoted to the position of Professor of Food Security and Sustainability. Her more recent focus has been interdisciplinary approaches to food security, including community growing systems. From a mathematical point of view she is working on trade-offs in the food system. Rachel was made a Fellow of the RSE in 2023.
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By 2050, the world must feed two billion more people. At this annual joint lecture with SCRR, experts explore the key challenges.
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The dietary order has always been part of the moral order, but the idioms linking them have historically changed.
