Latest news and updates from CCRI.
CCRI's Damian Maye is co-convening a session about Brexit with Gareth Enticott from Cardiff University at the RGS-IBG conference taking place in London from 29th August and 1st September 2017. The session is entitlted 'The Impact of Brexit to Agriculture, Food and Rural Society' and they have just announced a call for papers.
The EU VALERIE project has just released its 2016/17 Winter Newsletter, which gives details of the project progress over the past 12 months, including the ‘virtual adviser’ tool, which the CCRI has been co-ordinating.
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending the Agridemo-F2F kick off meeting in Ghent this week. Agridemo-F2F is a new project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.
The CCRI Postgraduate Winter School is currently taking place at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus.
Damian Maye has co-authored a paper which has been published in the first 2017 edition of Sociologia Ruralis. The article draws from research that Damian conducted with Dr Rhiannon Naylor from the Royal Agricultural University on the social science study which accompanied the Badger Vaccine Deployment Programme.
The first CCRI seminar for 2017 takes place on Thursday, 19th January, when Beth Brockett, from Natural England, is presenting 'Mixed methods mapping of soil carbon - challenging the usual approaches to mapping the agricultural environment'.
The CCRI Postgraduate Winter School takes place at the University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus on Thursday 12th January.
CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, has been awarded an OECD Research Fellowship and will be spending two months in the summer and autumn of 2017 in Japan researching the governance of Japan’s Satoyama cultural landscapes.
Jane Mills talks to Faye Hatcher on BBC Radio Gloucestershire about the importance of soil and how it is often forgotten and undervalued as a global resource