Biography
Dr Erin Sherry is a programme lead within the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute. Her research investigates how the impacts of market dynamics and policies vary across groups and places using optimisation and equilibrium modelling at different scales (field, farm, sub-catchment, commodity, sector, national and regional). Recent research funded by the UKRI’s Transforming UK Food Systems Programme applied commodity market modelling to anticipate the impacts of alternative diet changes on the UK’s agricultural sector including international trade and greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, Erin is a funded investigator within the multi-institutional and cross jurisdictional Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water and is a past President of the Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland.
Select Publications
Erin Sherry, Binfield J., and Caskie C., (2026) Environmental and Trade Implications of Alternative Diet Scenarios for the United Kingdom, forthcoming in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
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
