Graduated in agriculture from London University in 1981 followed by a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989 . I held positions at Newcastle University for 20 years first as a lecture and, in 1999, as a senior lecturer. Took up a position at UWA in 2001 as a senior lecturer. From 2007 to 2013 I was Head of the School of Agriculture and Resource Economics. My current position is as an Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture and Environment. 

ECON1120 Enviromental Economics 1
Analysis for Environmental Management

Research interests are in environmental and agricultural economics with a particular interest in environmental contracts and incentives for farmers to provide environmental public goods.