People
The Centre for Rural Policy Research is co-directed by and . The centre administrator is .
| Name | Role | Keywords |
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| Co-Director, Professor, Rural Resource Management | Sociology of agriculture; Health and well-being in agriculture; succession and retirement; land and agri-environmental management; agricultural restructuring | |
| Co-Director, Professor, Anthropology | Political anthropology; history and culture of agrarian societies; food studies; food systems and alternative food networks; heritage foods; geographical appellations and indications; terroir; artisan cheesemaking. | |
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Administrator/PA to Directors of CRPR |
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| Honorary Research Fellow | Freelance Researcher | |
| Postgraduate Research Associate | Rural sociology, farming and society, farmer public engagement, farmer-nonfarmer relationship, food system transition, sustainable livestock farming | |
| Senior Lecturer, SPA | ||
| Honorary Research Fellow | ||
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Senior Lecturer, SPSPA |
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Research Fellow |
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| Senior Research Fellow | ||
| Research Fellow | Environmental governance, policy learning and change; nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation; links between environment and health and wellbeing; sustainable tourism | |
| Lecturer, Sociology of Food | Anthropology of food; food cooperatives; community organising; mutual aid; food and housing insecurity; everyday politics | |
| Professor, Politics | ||
| Research Fellow | Sustainable food systems; climate change; sustainable school food | |
| Research Fellow | ||
| Research Fellow | Health and well-being in agriculture; Environmental land management; Rural sustainability and resilience; Public engagement in farming; Rural sociology | |
| Research Fellow | ||
| Chair of Management Board, Professor, Land Economy and Society | Sociology of agriculture; agrarian history; agro-food systems; land use change. |
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| Professor of Geography | ||
| Associate Professor, Politics (Cornwall) | ||
| Professor in Organisation and Sustainability (Cornwall) | ||
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy |
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| Jessica Evans |
Nursery & Assistant Horticultural Manager |
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Senior Research Fellow |
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Governance |
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| Professor Jo Little | Professor in Gender and Geography | |
| Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy | ||
| Associate Professor, Environment & Sustainability Institute (Cornwall) | ||
| Lecturer, Politics (Cornwall) | ||
| Research Fellow | ||
| Research Fellow | Anthropology, ethics, morality, mental health, horses, politics, green social prescribing | |
| Associate Professor | ||
| Dr Lucy Szaboova | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Other staff
The Centre for Rural Policy Research receives input from a number of 樱花动漫 academics from other departments and disciplines, plus visiting staff from other institutions.
The Centre is also home to a number of PhD researchers, and is guided by an expert Advisory Board.
| Name | PhD title |
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| Caroline Aitken |
Agroecological Transition: Lessons from the new British peasantry |
| Alessandro Guglielmo |
Mutual Metabolisms: Land, Food and More-than-human Bodies in Rural Sardinia |
| William Jaggard |
Painfully delicious: What producing and consuming chilli says about individual identity in British society |
| Jill Lidgey |
The role and future of town markets in the 21st Century |
| Aoife Maher |
Exploring the barriers to alternative horticultural uses for grazing lands |
| Hannah Mortimer | Human-animal interactions and feeding practices on British farms |
| Anna Seecharan |
Food knowledge in migratory bodies: an embodied approach to taste/smell memories through time and space. |
| Giulia Nicolini |
Eating seaweed in the U.K.: Understanding how culture intersects with the environmental sustainability of food |
| Jo Furtando |
Predicting future cultural and natural heritage scenarios on common land |
| Nina Serbedzija |
Farming heritage: Native breed 'revitalisation' in Istria and South West England |
| Skylar Collins |
Understanding Mental Health, Wellbeing and Risk in UK-small scale fisheries |
Recently completed PhDs
| Name | PhD title |
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| Catherine Broomfield |
Making it work here: enabling grassland farming communities to develop a place-based response to the global challenge of living within planetary boundaries |
| Oliver Moore | Feeding time at the zoo: post-war to present day |
| Jessica Fagin |
Boundary and Identity making in “Conventional” and Halal Sheep Slaughter in England |
| Jed Hilton |
The Chef as Activist: The Changing Role and Activism of Contemporary Chefs |
| Megan Larmer |
Towards an edible ethic: land-use, gastronomy, and the politics of rurality in the Hudson Valley |
| Eimear Mc Loughlin | Slaughterhouse Culture: An Ethnography of Animal Slaughter in Denmark |
| Hannah Chiswell | Rising to the Food Security Challenge: An Investigation into the Impact of the Food Security Agenda on Farmers and their Successors in the South West of England. |
| Charlotte-Anne Chivers | Exploring the credibility, relevance and legitimacy of environmental advice provisioning surrounding diffuse water pollution from agriculture |
| Jen Clements | The Cornish agri-environment: attitudes, values and behaviour in uncertain times |
| Beth Dooly | The Rowan Johnstone PhD Studentship: Reorientating change: an ethnographic look at how farmer discussion groups within the South West promote social learning and build resilience |
| Adrian Colston | Stakeholder attitudes to the Dartmoor Commons: tradition, conflict and the search for consensus in an age of atmospheric pollution and climate change |
| Georgina Crossman | The Organisational Landscape of the English Horse Industry: a Contrast with Sweden and the Netherlands. |
| Pedro Andrés Garzon Delvaux | Woodfuel Supply Chain Integration in the South West of England; A Transaction Costs Approach to Bioenergy Development |
| Nicholas Kirsop-Taylor | Land use Futures - An Ecosystem Services Approach to the 'Land between the Moors' |
| Gordon Morris | People Helping People - An Assessment of the Market Towns and Related Initiatives and the Extent to Which they Addressed Rural Poverty. |
| Polly Lord | The application of employment law in agriculture |
| Colin Nolden | Building Capacity for Climate Change Actions in Rural Communities. |
| Caroline Nye | The John Oldacre Foundation PhD Studentship: Agricultural Labour in the UK: Change and Challenge in the Transition to Sustainable Intensification |
| Lauren Parry | Policy and Practice for the Sustainable Carbon Management of Moorlands. |
| Celia Plender | Food Co-ops in Austerity Britain: Negotiating politics, aid and care in changing times |
| Tom Richardson(Tremough) | Science and the Politics of Sustainability: An Analysis of Four Research-Council Funded Bioenergy Projects. |
| Virginia Thomas | Navigating the landscapes and boundaries of rewilding |
| Tim Wilkinson | Perceptions of Exmoor |
| Cheryl Willis | Harnessing Nature’s Benefits: Problems and Prospects for Recognising the Environmental Basis of Regional Tourist Economies. |
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| HONORARY APPOINTMENTS | ||
| Honorary Research Fellow | North Devon Biosphere and Forestry Commission | |
| Honorary Professor | Rothamsted Research | |
| Dr Adrian Colston | Honorary Research Fellow | |
| Honorary Research Fellow | SOAS Food Studies Centre | |
| Honorary Professor | The National Trust | |
| Honorary Research Fellow | SPSN: Supporting the People who Support Nature | |
| Honorary Senior Research Fellow | IEEP | |
| Honorary Professor | The National Trust | |
| Dr Oliver Moore | Feeding time at the zoo: post-war to present day | |
| Honorary Research Fellow | Rothamsted Research | |
| Professor John McInerney | Emeritus Professor | |
| Honorary Senior Research Fellow | Duchy College Rural Business School | |
| Honorary Research Fellow | ||
| Honorary Professor | Chair of the Forestry Commission | |
| Dr Virginia Thomas | Honorary Research Fellow | |
| ASSOCIATES | ||
| Research Associate | Environment Agency | |
| Dr Beth Dooly | Research Associate | |
| >Dr Jessica Fagin |
Research Associate |
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| Alessandro Guglielmo |
Research Associate |
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| John Harvey |
Research Associate |
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| Dr Jed Hilton |
Research Associate |
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