Laura Vickers is an Associate Head of the Department for the Sustainable Systems Section and Senior Lecturer in Plant Biology at Harper Adams University. She previously held a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship in the area of Horticulture. She gained her Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Birmingham before working as a postdoc at Harper Adams University in Shropshire, within the Fresh Produce Research Centre. She teaches crop production, plant physiology, and biosciences to undergraduates, and entomology, horticulture, and plant physiology to postgraduates. She is the course manager for the Agricultural Sciences and Production Systems MSc and the BASIS partnership manager. Her research areas of expertise are in organismal adaptability to environmental stress, in particular water stress, working with Professor Peter Kettlewell in the area of antitranspirants. She also conducts research in entomology, particularly aphids, and urban farming. She is an advisory board member of the UK Urban AgriTech, as well as working within the Policy and Advocacy group. Her other interests are in fresh produce production, and postharvest quality, in addition to plants as green infrastructure.
