Naomi has 25 years' research experience including management of multidisciplinary, collaborative studies. She has managed many recent evaluations of agri-environment schemes and related initiatives including current projects evaluating the new Countryside Stewardship, assessing the role of advice on HLS agreement set-up, monitoring of Entry Level Stewardship and the impact of ETIP advice and the evaluation of voluntary measures implemented under the Campaign for the Farmed Environment.

Naomi is currently a member of the British Ecological Society, Association of Applied Biologists, European Weed Research Society and the UK Weed Liaison Group and was a subject Editor for Weed Research 2003-2009. She has been an Editor of two conference proceedings and is currently on the organising committee for two further conferences. Her recent research has included studies which combine ecological and wider environmental survey with socio-economic issues such as farmers' attitudes to, and understanding of, agri-environment policies and their implementation. Other areas of research include management of weeds (detrimental and beneficial) in arable systems.