Latest news and updates from CCRI.
Our placement student, Eloise Fresnay, is a 'WWOOFer' and she is calling for other WWOOFers and hosts to help her student placement research study by completing a short survey on WWOOFIng to help her establish how it plays a role in farming knowledge transmission.
John Powell has been invited to give the keynote speech at an international workshop in China later this year. The workshop, focusing on “Enhancing Water Governance and Policy”, will be held on 14th and 15th October 2017, at Tsinghua University, near Beijing in China. This will be the first professional academic conference around Commons in China, and has been approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Mauro Vigani was interviewed by WIRED USA regarding EU regulations in connection with the development of a tomato resistant to a pernicious fungal disease.
The CCRI, University of Gloucestershire and the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, supported by the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership for Wales (Wales DTP), are currently inviting applications for a funded PhD studentship – QUALMAP: Qualitative Geospatial Methods for Active Participation
The RECARE project has recently completed a review of EU polices on soil protection. In this review, 28 of the most relevant EU policy instruments for soil protection have been examined with respect to their provisions and mechanisms.
CCRI researchers have had several papers accepted for publication, including an introduction and papers for a special issue of Sociologia Ruralis, due to be published in July, 2017.
Janet Dwyer is working with ADAS on a research project commissioned by Defra. The aim of the research is to prepare and deliver the information required for the 2017 EAIR for the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) 2014-2020 in accordance with European Evaluation Helpdesk Guidelines.
Julie Ingram and Damian Maye have had a article published in a new book. “Niche knowledge systems-challenging or invigorating the AKS? An analysis of the Permaculture community in England”, was published in AgroEcological Transitions : Changes and breakthroughs in the making.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the CCRI seminar scheduled for Thursday, 13th April, has been postponed. A new date will be published for Rob Berry's presentation, Spatio-economic modelling of agricultural resilience, in due course.