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Julie Urquhart and Mauro Vigani have been giving training sessions for qualitative methods for understanding dimensions of farm resilience at a SURE-Farm meeting in Madrid

CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, has been invited to give oral evidence in public on 25th April in connection with the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee's 'Work of DEFRA: Health and Harmony inquiry'.

One of the key recommendations coming out of a recently completed EU funded project is a new approach that would bring the social dimension – people – to the centre stage to deliver more environmental and social benefits.

On Thursday 26th April, Dilshaad Bundhoo will present her PhD work, which has developed a context based framework for understanding how relationships transform effectively at times of stress (interpersonal resilience) instead of breaking down.

A new print issue of Sociologia Ruralis has just been published, which includes an article by CCRI's Damian Maye.

On the 19th April, Professor David Main, Professor of Production Animal Health and Welfare at the Royal Agricultural University, will be making a presentation for the CCRI Seminar Series.

Matt Reed is the lead author on a paper just published in Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems. The paper - "The Challenges of Governing Urban Food Production across Four European City-Regions: Identity, Sustainability and Governance" - is available with free access online.

More than 125 people attended CCRI's 'Growing the Future' Rural Policy workshop held at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus in Gloucester on Thursday, 29th March, 2018.

Julie Ingram was at Ghent University in Belgium last week examining a PhD thesis entitled 'Dynamics of participation and learning in sustainable farming initiatives: opening the black box'.