Summary
Hermann Kam is a environmental social scientist. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and is on the Early Career Researchers Board for the Agri-Food for NetZero (AFN) Network. In addition, he is a policy consultant for an EU comissioned research project reviewing UK agricultural policies after Brexit.
Hermann completed his PhD in 2023, supervised by Prof. Clive Potter. The title of his thesis is: "New Land Managers: opportunities for delivering public goods through collaborative conservation". It looks into the changing complexion of the rural land management community in the UK, and utilised Q-method to understand the social, policy and economic interventions needed to engage a much broader set of landholders and land managers into landscape scale delivery of public goods through collaborations.
Current research projects include understanding the adoption of net-zero farming practices through the lens of Diffusion of Innovation Theory and the implications of agricultural policies on deer and tick-borne disease management.
Hermann holds degrees in Biology (BSc) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Environmental Management (MEM and MPhil) from the University of New South Wales.