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Project and team leadership in agricultural research, with a focus on applied plant pathology and developing solutions that are directly relevant to crop production. Project management of large multidisciplinary projects. Consortia and network building, developing research ideas and obtaining grant funding. Providing recommendations and designing bespoke protocols for field, polytunnel and glasshouse crop protection studies. Technical report and scientific report writing including appropriate statistical analysis. Expertise developing methods to produce plant pathogens for inoculation studies. Specialist knowledge of plant pathogens including foliar and soil-borne diseases of cereals, oilseed rape and potatoes. Special interests include integrated disease management and fungicide resistance management. Design, delivery and reporting of field trials for product registration (ORETO and GEP). BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection (2011) and a member of the BASIS Professional Register.