Dr Patrick O’Reilly is Research Associate, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester UK, Liverpool John Moores University.
Dr O’Reilly has been active in research, teaching and applied work relating to local and rural development for over 25 years. He has researched and written on multiple subjects in the field including rural livelihoods, the water energy food nexus, orphan crops, environmental and development governance, and research management. For the last ten years, his work has been focussed in Southeast Asia, in particular Malaysia and Indonesia, where his work has focussed on the intersection between policy, livelihood and the environment.