Latest news and updates from CCRI.
Julie Urquhart presented two papers based on her recent research on public, stakeholder and expert perceptions of tree pests and diseases at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg, Germany.
Julie is giving a presentation at a mini-symposium in Wageningen today, 4th October, entitled 'Developing effective decision support for managing soil organic matter - stakeholder perspectives', which is based on her research under the EU funded SmartSOil project.
The CCRI is part of a 16 pan-European consortium (from 13 countries) working on an EU Horizon 2020 project “Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems (SURE-Farm)", which has just launched its official website.
Jane Mills is taking part in the fifth European Network of Soil Awareness - Joint Research Centre (ENSA-JRC) meeting in Bratislava on 28th - 29th September. The workshop is called 'Giving Soils a Voice 2017'.
The risks associated with two invasive tree pest and disease outbreaks in the UK, ash dieback and oak processionary moth, are considered in a new paper co-authored by CCRI's Julie Urquhart, which has been published in Environmental Science and Policy.
Janet Dwyer and Dan Keech were at the Urban Futures 2 Symposium last week (5th to 7th September), which aimed to research the territory between rurality and urbanity in the 21st century.
CCRI's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Marco Della Gala, will be in Vicenza, Italy, between 18th to 20th September to participate in PRO-VE2017 - 18th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises.
The CCRI welcomes Julie Urquhart to the team today (1st September) as a Senior Research Fellow
Damian Maye, James Kirwan, Dilshaad Bundhoo and Hannah Chiswell are at the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG, where Brexit is very much at the forefront of the CCRI presentations.