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Mrs. Hazel Peavoy works as the Senior Strategic Business Partner for Walton Institute. Hazel works very closely with actors across the field of agriculture in Ireland and across Europe, strategically placing Walton Institute as the lead in the application of technologies into Agri and Food. She has worked on countless projects with Walton Institute following results from basic research through to the commercialisation of the results.
She is the project lead for Walton on: Site Manager for the SFI Research Centre, VistaMilk; Project Lead for the European Digital Innovation Hub: ENTIRE; and Project Manager on CITIES2030.
She is a member of the Smart Agri Hubs community Board; Synergy Days Organisation committee (specific responsibility for the EDIH Stream); and is a member of The Gender Alliance for Innovation in Agriculture (GAIA).
She is currently undertaking a PhD with the Department of Social Sciences at Newcastle University. Her PhD title is, “Assessing the influence of strategic choice on innovation ecosystems’ policy and performance: The case of European Digital Innovation Hubs.”
Hazel was also previously: Principle Investigator on AgriDISCRETE, a Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, Ireland project; Regional Cluster Lead for Ireland and the UK, Smart Agri Hubs; Regional Cluster Lead, AgROBOFood; and Walton Institute Agri activities manager of Precision Agricultural Centre of Excellence (PACE), a WIT-TSSG led Digital Innovation Hub.