“If you have that boom-and-bust cycle of agricultural prosperity and research funding, people develop certain expertise. When those roles disappear, people are forced to move into different areas. It’s a matter of trying to keep those career paths open for scientists, to allow them to keep their roles in those sectors.
“If the areas [scientists they are forced to move into] are more reliable in terms of income, people won’t come back. That’s certainly a concern for industry. Once you lose that expertise, then you need to retrain people, and that takes time and costs money.”
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Dr Stuart Barber is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Veterinary Science in the University of Melbourne. He also runs a research program focused on sheep mastitis and talks to Science Hub about his research, and more broadly about the importance of agriculture to Australia’s economy.
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