Dr Diana Tingley

I work at the cross section between academia, business, policy and public engagement. My skill sets include: economics, research, consultancy, policy, communications, project management, strategic delivery, impact development and evaluation, commercialisation and innovation.  

My current work focuses on the following activities: 

• Real time detection of dissolved metals (calcium) for healthier aquatic systems - I work with the team to commercialise this major innovation allowing for accurate, real-time testing of dissolved calcium in aquaculture, environmental and health-care settings. The Patent Application was filed on 3rd Feb 2026. Contact Diana <D.M.Tingley@exeter.ac.uk> or Academic Lead Inventor (Dr Alexis Perry <A.Perry@exeter.ac.uk>) for more information. 
• Dragon Capital Chair | Economic Policy Making for Biodiversity - I am leading work to refresh and enhance all forms of communication for this influential and impactful research programme. https://dragonchair.org.uk/ 
• Investing in the UK's Blue Transformation | National Centre for Land-based Seafood Farming - "This is a transformational opportunity to boost not only productivity and exports, but also the technology behind it." Prof. Ian Bateman, OBE, US-NAS, FBA, FEARE, FRSA, FRSA. We are planning a launch for our Policy Brief and Investment Prospectus which sets out the UK opportunity. 
• The UK Sustainable King Prawn Project - As Business Fellow and Project Manager, I led on stakeholder engagement and strategic project management to develop the UK's opportunity to grow warm water king prawns in bio-secure, circular land-based settings. https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/kingprawn/  
• Biodiversity Net Gain - My research explores the public's preferences for how Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain could be delivered in practice. We showed that people do not just care about the overall impacts of environmental policies, but also about the distribution of the associated losses and gains across society. These findings highlight the potential role of environmental policies to reduce social inequalities. Who should benefit from environmental policies? Social preferences and nonmarket values for the distribution of environmental improvements.