News

Julie Ingram has had a paper published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. The paper can be accessed online.

Our current placement student Eloise Fresnay will soon be leaving CCRI. While she has been here, Eloise has been conducting a research project about the role of social interaction and collective work in WWOOF-ing networks. This Thursday, Eloise will present her findings as part of the CCRI Seminar series.

The IASC's 16th Biennial Global conference ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ is taking place this week in Utrecht, Netherlands. As President of the IASC, John Powell gave the welcoming address at the opening ceremony on 10th July.

Matt Reed and Dan Keech have had a jointly authored paper published today (12th July) in Landscape Research. The paper is entitled 'Gardening cyberspace—social media and hybrid spaces in the creation of food citizenship in the Bristol city-region, UK'.

Damian Maye was a guest editor for a special issue of Sociologia Ruralis, which was published this week (11th July 2017). Damian co-edited the special issue with Jessica Duncan from Wageningen University, Netherlands.

A Masters by Research project run by Kate Smith, together with her supervisors Rob Berry, Lucy Clarke and Chris Short, is evaluating the use of 3D landscape visualisation technology (Google Earth) for enhancing and improving participation in Natural Flood Management (NFM). Help the research team by participating in an online survey.

John Powell and Chris Short are travelling to the beautiful medieval city centre of Utrecht in the Netherlands for the 16th Biennial Global conference ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).

Drs Damian Maye, James Kirwan and Mauro Vigani were in Esbjerg, Denmark on the 4th-6th July for the fifth project meeting for the SUFISA [Sustainable finance for sustainable agriculture and fisheries] project.

The CCRI held its first ever postgraduate Summer School on 29th June, as an internal day of training and discussion for our PG research students.