Welcome to this short online course on the sustainability of aquaculture products, which has been developed by the staff of the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling, UK.

Your tutors for this course are:

Professor David Little

Chair of Aquatic Resource Development at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling and responsible for Internationalisation.

He has more than 40 years of professional experience in the sector. Research and educational interests focus on the societal impacts of aquaculture and, increasingly, highlight the importance of seafood in food systems.  As part of the Environment research group at the Institute¹, he has developed and coordinated a wide range of research, both externally funded and through postgraduate research with a focus on Asia and Africa. He has published widely on the interface between aquatic food production, broader natural resource management and development and has been a vocal advocate and practitioner of interdisciplinary systems research². He has recently been involved in the Blue Foods Assessment³ and continues as a member of the Standards Oversight Committee of Global Aquaculture Alliance and the Aquaculture of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Aquaculture Technical Committee.

¹http://www.susaquastirling.net/  ²https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Little3 ³https://www.bluefood.earth/

Dr Richard Newton

Research Fellow at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling

He specialises in Life Cycle Analysis and has worked in the Aquaculture industry for over 10 years, including work in Asia and Africa. His main interests are in improving resource efficiency in aquaculture, particularly value addition and environmental trade-offs of utilising by-product streams from aquaculture processing. He is active in developing LCA methodology that better represents the uses of by-products within such assessments.

Dr. Sonia Rey Planellas

Lecturer at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling

She has an MSc in biodiversity and conservation ecology. Her PhD was on Animal Sciences: Behaviour and Ecology. Her latest Post-doctoral research position was on a European Project on fish welfare (COPEWELL). She was appointed as a lecturer in 2019 She has been working in the field of behaviour, physiology and welfare of individuals and groups of animals for the past 15 years.