Her research is focussed on water management in field to meso-scale watersheds for food production, livelihood improvements and agro-ecosystems sustainability.Dr Barron is now working on research in integrated resource management strategies actively incorporating on and off-farm water uses in field to meso-scale watershed.

Of particular interest are the opportunities to enable desirable transformations of livelihoods and production landscapes for sustainable development, in view of uncertainty and complexity of global and local change.

The research activities are being undertaken in several project partnerships, currently focussing on sites in Niger, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Zambia and India.Previoulsy, Dr Barron worked with water and agricultural related research and development in sub-Sahara Africa, SE Asia and Australia. She has also several years of experience in higher education and learning support activities both in Sweden and in the African context.

She has contributed to the CGIAR initiative “Comprehensive assessment of water for agriculture" and made contributions towards the Swedish Environmental Advisory Council on future fresh water and land requirements for food, and bioenergy.

She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management, Stockholm University, and a M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. Dr Barron has author/co-author to 10 peer reviewed papers and book chapters.

She currently serves as a member on the Scientific Board of The Water Research Fund of Southern Africa (WARFSA). She has acted as reviewer to Norwegian Research Council and various scientific journals.