Isobel Talks

Dr Isobel Talks is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant. After getting involved in agricultural projects whilst carrying out her DPhil fieldwork in Bangladesh, she began working on a farm near Cambridge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2021 Isobel has worked with the LWA on a number of projects, including the NESS (New Entrant Support Scheme) pilot with Defra and ‘Experts in Your Field’. She now facilitates the Agroecology Research Collaboration, which seeks to support and inform research that is led by, centres on, and meets the needs of, agroecological farmers, growers, foresters and other land-based workers. Isobel also teaches the ‘Environmental Education’ course at the University of Oxford which promotes the radical reorientation of teaching and learning in response to the climate crisis and carries out research on agroecological education. Outside of work Isobel loves birdwatching, swimming in the sea and cultivating mushrooms.