Professor Damien Field is the project Team Leader and researcher in Soil Security at the University of Sydney. He has a strong capacity to work in international cross-cultural projects and has successfully led Phase 1 (SMCN/2014/) of this project implemented in 2017. He is an executive member of the Sydney South East Asia Centre focusing on cross-disciplinary research in the region and was a partner in an ACIAR project in Laos (ASEM/2012/073). He has a research history in national projects focused on improving on-farm soil assessment and the development of soil education programs and training supported through the GRDC. He is also a research leader in Soil Security, which is a newly developed research concept that forms the foundation of the research approach being executed here, a combination of scientific and socio-economic dimensions.
