Dr. Hermann Kam

Dr Hermann Kam’s specialises in UK agricultural policy, with extensive experience in mixed-method social science research. His research focuses on increasing our understanding of the intersections between policy, land use and ecosystems. He seeks to incorporate a more interdisciplinary approach to examining the synergies and conflicts between agri-environmental policies, the farming sector and conservation efforts in the UK countryside. He is co-lead for the social science aspect of a multi-disciplinary project, investigating what drives the uptake of net-zero farm innovation practices by farmers together with the social, economic and policy interventions needed to facilitate better uptake. 

Before this role, he completed his PhD at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. His research investigated how the new suite of agri-environmental policies in the UK can accommodate for an increasingly diverse land management community, to achieve greater conservation outcome on a landscape scale in the English countryside.