Gordon’s focus is on protected cropping, soil health, vegetable agronomy, crop physiology, and the development of sustainable crop production systems. He is passionate about communicating results of research to growers and end-users in a way that helps them implement findings.

Current work includes low cost protected cropping, soil health, climate change, alternative uses for vegetable crop waste, and international aid projects with a focus on vegetable market linkages in Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar and Africa.

Gordon is currently vice chair of the International Society for Horticultural Science commission for protected cropping, and is immediate past president of the Australian Society for Horticultural Science.