About

Hi, I’m Dr Matt Heaton. I am a John Innes Foundation Fellow in Sustainable Food Security at the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development and a Research Associate at the UK-CGIAR Centre.

I am based in the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia and am a visiting worker at the John Innes Centre.

Overview

Blog

I write about sustainability, agriculture and development research for my projects and others.

Research

My academic work uses mixed methods to study agricultural development challenges across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Data Vis

I produce data visulation of humanitarian and sustainability issues to support communication of these topics.

Visual

I run a company alongside my research that provides graphical, photographic and video content to support research communications.

I am currently working on...

  • Understanding wheat farmer preferences:Research with the UK-CGIAR Centre with farmers and value chains across Egypt, Kenya and Pakistan.
  • Gene editing book chapter: Leading a chapter on the global status of gene editing regulations for crops.
  • Gene editing crop regulation tracker:Leading a website tracking regulatory change across gene editing in crops and providing communication tools for researchers to report on this. See https://cropgeregulations.com/
  • Principles for ODA Developing a set of principles to guide and critique Overseas Development Aid strategy. See: odaprinciples.com
  • Improving the translational ecosystem for wheat innovation Working with the Delivering Sustainable Wheat programme to understand drivers and ways to improve the impacts from research innovations into healthier and more sustainable wheat. See: wheatresearch.ac.uk