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 is 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 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/
  • UK-ASEAN Precision Breeding Network: Developing a new network for researchers across the UK and ASEAN countries. See uk-asean-precision-breeding.net
  • Principles for ODA Developing a set of principles to guide and critique Overseas Development Aid strategy. See: odaprinciples.com