Latest news and updates from CCRI.
Janet Dwyer led a discussion session at an 'Innovation in Gloucestershire’s Rural Businesses event', which was organised by GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Land Based Business Group. Its purpose was to demonstrate to Gloucestershire rural businesses how their businesses could benefit from engaging with GFirst LEP.
CCRI’s Matt Reed is lined up to give a presentation as part of the University of Gloucestershire’s Research Methods Seminar Series on Wednesday 26th October, when he will be talking about qualitative methods for understanding how Twitter is used in political campaigning.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said this week that the National Bee Unit has confirmed a sighting of the Asian hornet in the Tetbury area of Gloucestershire – the first time the hornet has been discovered in the UK, sparking fears for the future of our native honey bees,
Julie Ingram is giving a Keynote paper at the 5th Belgian Agroecology Meeting (BAM) in Ghent, Belguim, on Tuesday 20th September. The meeting, which is co-organised by Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO) and Ghent University, is entitled ''Bridging gaps between principles and practices in agroecology".
We regret to advise you that this week's CCRI Seminar, due to be presented by Professor Johan Fredrik Rye, from the Department for Sociology and Political Science, National University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, on Thursday, 15th September, has been cancelled due to sickness.
CCRI was pleased to hear from Visiting Professor, Michael Dower, this week, bringing us up to date on his role as Coordinator of the PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe and Joint Coordinator of the European Rural Parliament.
Janet Dwyer was interviewed by Farmers Weekly following discussions at the Rural Services Network conference last week, regarding the possible implications of Brexit on farm subsidies.
The CCRI was well represented at the 2016 RGS-IBG Annual Conference, this year's theme being ‘nexus thinking’, an approach that aims to address the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between different environmental and social domains.
Soil is always at the forefront of Jane Mills' research and this coming week it is indeed all about soil as she attends various workshops and meetings around Europe to discuss soil issues.