Hugh Campbell was appointed Chair in Sociology at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2010. For the ten years prior to that he was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE) at the University of Otago and programme leader of four major research programmes into the elaboration of alternative farming practices and food systems.
Professor Hugh Campbell is Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology, School of Social Sciences, University of Otago.
In 2020, he published a book with Bloomsbury Academic –Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences – on the agency of farms in the colonisation of New Zealand, the creation of modernist farming as the dominant for of land-use in New Zealand, and the many ways in which alternatives to modernist farming are emerging. The book is available on open access at www.bloomsburycollections.com
