樱花动漫

My research specialises in the politics and economics of regional development, focussing on how people, economies, communities, and geologies, geographies, and ecologies co-evolve. ? I consider how people acquire the skills to be able to navigate and contribute to local economies, drawing on fieldwork in the UK and the US. ? I apply this to rural and peripheral regions, resource economies, and local government.? In current and recent projects I look at skills, finding work and local governance in , and in nature recovery.? I have completed consultancy work around workforce and skills development; and local government.

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My has been published in journals such as The Journal of Rural Studies, Sociologia Ruralis, Political Studies, Environment and Planning C: Population and Space, Journal of Material Culture, Habitat, and British Politics. My first book , (with Rowman and Littlefield) draws on ethnographic, embodied research in Cornwall UK, and SW Virginia US, imagining regions as complex adaptive assemblages to explore a more effective regional development.? These perspectives underpin my 2024 textbook which examines the role which identities play in contemporary UK politics.? My next book, More-Than-Human Politics: Worldmaking and the American Political Imaginary, is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic

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In addition to my Fulbright, I have been PI or Co-I on AHRC, ESRC, and UKRI research projects, and have contributed to a number of Parliamentary Inquiries, such as the House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy “”, and the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s “” and "" reports. I am invited to present my research internationally in both policy and academic settings, including the European Union Committee of the Regions (with the European Association for Local Democracy); The European Parliament (with the European Free Alliance); the University of California Berkeley; Ume? University; the Virginia Tech Office for Economic Development; Feile Belfast, the National Association of Local Councils; and the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government.

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I am co-director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, a former trustee of the , co-convenor of the , and help to coordinate a Regional Studies Association network which explores questions of peripheral and rural development. I have been interviewed by local, national and international media (TV, print and radio), including the BBC, NPR, The Guardian, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Follow me on?

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