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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

Pete Gaskell and Julie Ingram are visiting one of the VALERIE project forestry case studies this week in the Roncal Valley in the Basque Pyrenees.

The CCRI has today published its 2016 Year in Review brochure, highlighting our research and other activities during the past year.

The latest project update for 'VALERIE’ (VALorising European Research for Innovation in agriculturE and forestry), which concerns research to underpin innovation in the agri-rural sector, is available to download.