Elizabeth originally joined FWAG as a farmer member in the early 1990s, looking for environmental advice on her 50 acre arable and livestock farm. She has a PhD in grassland ecology and has written the standard textbook on grassland management for horses. She worked as a Farm Environment Adviser with Cambs & Herts FWAG from 2002-2011 and then with FWAG East until the present. She was the Eastern Region co-ordinator for the Campaign for the Farmed Environment 2009-2020. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and a Chartered Environmentalist.