Lecturer and researcher in Agriculture and Business Management at SRUC, Aberdeen.
My research looks at transitional vulnerability, which is how farms, rural businesses and food supply chains become exposed while they are going through change. I work in a participatory way, alongside the communities and businesses I study.
- Agri-food system resilience
- Rural entrepreneurship
- Supply chain vulnerability
- Qualitative research methods and CAQDAS (NVivo, ATLAS.ti)
- NBS treescapes reverse-logic analysis, the data, search strategy and framework behind my 2026 IJERPH article on nature-based solution treescapes across Europe (doi:10.3390/ijerph23060691)
- Woodlands for All, a 19-benefit framework, workshop method and resource lists for community woodland groups (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15050621)
- Emerging ostrich farmers, the participation capacity instrument, method and recommended interventions from my doctoral thesis on supply chain participation in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23881131)
- PRISMA Flow, a step-by-step wizard for drawing PRISMA flow diagrams for systematic reviews
- QualHub data demo, demo repository for QualHub
- Website: transitionalvulnerability.org
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9792-0932
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pittaway
- Substack: timpit.substack.com