Dr Tim Chancellor

Biography

Tim Chancellor trained as a vector ecologist and has spent many years overseas working on the ecology and management of virus disease of rice (south and southeast Asia), banana (Philippines and Uganda), groundnuts (Uganda) and tomato (Caribbean). In recent years he has continued to work on pest and disease management in tropical crops but he also specialises in capacity strengthening of individuals, organizations and institutions. He has an MSc in Crop Protection and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Reading. After working as an agriculturist for Tate & Lyle Technical Services in Indonesia and Ghana, Tim joined NRI in 1989. He spent most of the 1990s seconded to the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. He led NRI’s Plant, Animal & Human Health Group from 2001 to 2006. Since then he has been coordinating the Institute’s work on capacity strengthening. Tim is also currently acting as Liaison Scientist for the southern Africa Community of Practice of the Collaborative Crop Research Program of the McKnight Foundation.

Research Interest

Tim is interested in the development and application of ecological approaches to insect pest and disease management. His work has involved integrating knowledge on the population dynamics of insect vectors of crop diseases with an understanding of temporal and spatial patterns of disease spread in order to bring about improved disease control. He has also carried out research on the economic, social and cultural factors which influence crop management decisions and on pest and disease control practices utilized by resource-poor farmers.