Dr Erin Sherry (neé Minihan)

Biography

Dr Sherry (neé Minihan) hails from Michigan and studied public affairs at James Madison College (Michigan State University) followed by Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (The Pennsylvania State University) and General Equilibrium Modelling (Queen's University Belfast). Her research focuses on integrating the economic system with physical and social systems to inform policy design and implementation strategies. She leads the regional economics research programme, investigating how the impacts of market dynamics and policies vary across groups and places using empirical and quantitative modelling at different scales (field, farm, sub-catchment, commodity, sector, national and UK). These models have been developed and applied to the link between diet change and international trade in the UK (FAPRI-UK), commodity price spikes and phosphorus efficiency in the UK food system (PhARM), the trade-offs of alternative approaches to meeting water quality targets at sub-catchment scale in Northern Ireland (PhARM-CAT), and field-specific simulations of actual derogated and non-derogated farms to analyse alternative nutrient management regulations (PhARM-SIM). She is honoured to be President Elect for the Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland (term commencing June 2024).

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Julia Martin-Ortega, Shane A Rothwell, Aine Anderson, Murat Okumah, Christopher Lyon, Erin Sherry, Christopher Johnston, Paul JA Withers, Donnacha G Doody (2022) Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system, Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 131, pp. 177-187.

Ryan McGuire, Alberto Longo and Erin Sherry (2022) Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 89, pp. 161-170.

Vero, S.E., E.Sherry and D.Doody, 2020. Evidence and perception of phosphorus loss risk factors in farmyards, Environmental Science & Policy 114, 542-548

Sherry, E. and S. Shortall (2018) Methodological fallacies and perceptions of rural disparity: How rural proofing addresses real versus abstract needs, Journal of Rural Studies

Sherry, E. and S. Shortall (2018) The Needy Rural – Does Living in a Rural Area Mean that You Are in Need? In Service Provision and Rural Sustainability: Infrastructure and Innovation, 1st Edition, Edited by G. Halseth, S. Markey, and L. Ryser, Routeledge, Oxford

Minihan, E.S. and Z. Wu (2014) Capturing the macroeconomic impact of technology-based greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture: a computable general equilibrium approach, Operational Research, Vol.14, pp. 189-203

Minihan, E.S. and Z. Wu (2012) Economic structure and strategies for greenhouse gas mitigation, Energy Economics, Vol. 34, pp. 350-357