Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (11)

Modelling the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antimicrobial resistance in dairy farms (2024)
Journal Article
Todman, H., Helliwell, R., King, L., Blanchard, A., Gray-Hammerton, C. J., Hooton, S. P., …Stekel, D. J. (2024). Modelling the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antimicrobial resistance in dairy farms. npj Antimicrobials & Resistance, 2(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44259-024-00029-4

Dairy slurry is a major source of environmental contamination with antimicrobial resistant genes and bacteria. We developed mathematical models and conducted on-farm research to explore the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antim... Read More about Modelling the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antimicrobial resistance in dairy farms.

Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Seymour, S., & Wilson, P. (2020). Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England. Energy Research and Social Science, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101387

Outside of Denmark, straw-based bioenergy has seen uneven success across Europe. In the UK, straw-based bioenergy has been positioned as making a potentially important contribution to the UK government's energy and environmental objectives. However,... Read More about Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England.

NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Hartley, S., & Pearce, W. (2019). NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing. Agriculture and Human Values, 36(4), 779–791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09956-9

Plant genome editing has the potential to become another chapter in the intractable debate that has dogged agricultural biotechnology. In 2016, 107 Nobel Laureates accused Greenpeace of emotional and dogmatic campaigning against agricultural biotechn... Read More about NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing.

Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2019). Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0220-2

This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops (2018)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R. (2018). Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops. Energy Policy, 117, 166-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.03.011

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Dedicated energy crops such as miscanthus and short rotation coppice willow were expected by UK policy and academic modelling to be deployed across large swaths of UK marginal lands in response to farm and market level incentives,... Read More about Where did the marginal land go? Farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops.

The emergent rhizosphere: imaging the development of the porous architecture at the root-soil interface (2017)
Journal Article
Helliwell, J., Sturrock, C. J., Mairhofer, S., Craigon, J., Ashton, R., Miller, A., …Mooney, S. J. (in press). The emergent rhizosphere: imaging the development of the porous architecture at the root-soil interface. Scientific Reports, 7(14875), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14904-w

The rhizosphere is the zone of soil infuenced by a plant root and is critical for plant health and nutrient acquisition. All below ground resources must pass through this dynamic zone prior to their capture by plant roots. However, researching the un... Read More about The emergent rhizosphere: imaging the development of the porous architecture at the root-soil interface.

Practicing stewardship: EU biofuels policy and certification in the UK and Guatemala (2016)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., & Tomei, J. (2017). Practicing stewardship: EU biofuels policy and certification in the UK and Guatemala. Agriculture and Human Values, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-016-9737-9

Biofuels have transitioned from a technology expected to deliver numerous benefits to a highly contested socio-technical solution. Initial hopes about their potential to mitigate climate change and to deliver energy security benefits and rural develo... Read More about Practicing stewardship: EU biofuels policy and certification in the UK and Guatemala.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2016). Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press. Journal of Rural Studies, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.003

Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.

Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
Tomei, J., & Helliwell, R. (2016). Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels. Land Use Policy, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.11.015

In less than a decade, biofuels transitioned from being a socially and politically acceptable alternative to conventional transport fuels to a deeply contested solution. Claims of land grabs, forest loss and food riots emerged to undermine the sustai... Read More about Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels.

Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels (2015)
Journal Article
Raman, S., Mohr, A., Helliwell, R., Ribeiro, B., Shortall, O., Smith, R., & Millar, K. (2015). Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels. Biomass and Bioenergy, 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.04.022

The paper clarifies the social and value dimensions for integrated sustainability assessments of lignocellulosic biofuels. We develop a responsible innovation approach, looking at technology impacts and implementation challenges, assumptions and valu... Read More about Integrating social and value dimensions into sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biofuels.