Dr Jim Radford leads the Landscape Ecology lab in the Department of Environment and Genetics and is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Future Landscapes. Dr Radford’s research focuses on landscape ecology, conservation biology and sustainable agriculture, aligned with the Centre’s aims to find solutions for the global challenge of sustaining natural ecosystems and biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes under climate change. Dr Radford led the Farm-scale Natural Capital Accounting project (2020-2024), which has developed tools and processes to generate farm-scale Natural Capital Accounts and relate measures of natural capital to biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Dr Radford is also a project partner with Farming for the Future and CI on the ARC Linkage Bird Community Condition Metrics project With colleagues from La Trobe, other universities, government and industry, Dr Radford is undertaking research into the outcomes of landscape change (fire and other disturbances, restoration, farming practices) on ecological communities and native wildlife, practices to increase the ecological and social sustainability of farming, integrating nature conservation into landscape design and management, and approaches to improve biodiversity monitoring at broad spatial and temporal scales. Dr Radford completed his PhD on the breeding biology and conservation ecology of the White-browed Treecreeper at Deakin University in 2002. He was a Research Fellow at Deakin University studying the impacts of land-use change in agricultural landscapes on bird communities until 2007, when he joined Bush Heritage Australia as their Ecological Monitoring Coordinator. Dr Radford held several roles at Bush Heritage, including Science Director and Executive Manager Science and Conservation until he joined La Trobe at the end of 2016.