Tanya is a researcher specialising in food systems, public policy, and multi-actor governance. She holds a PhD from the University of Central Lancashire, and her work lies at the intersection of political science, public administration, science and technology studies, and human geography.
She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow in the European project AETERAKIS (Territorialised Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems Framework for Agroecological Transitions), which aims to develop a territorialised AKIS framework to support agroecological transitions through a mixed-methods approach grounded in social network analysis.

