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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.

The CCRI Seminar Series for 2016/17 will kick off on Thursday 15 September when Professor Johan Fredrik Rye, from the Department for Sociology and Political Science, National University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, gives a presentation entitled "Eastern European migrant workers in Norway’s agricultural and fish farming industries".

The CCRI/University of Gloucestershire is delighted to be named as a collaborating research organisation for the ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, led by Cardiff University.

An free event is taking place at the Royal Agricultural University on 16th September, which will be looking at innovation in Gloucestershire's rural businesses.

Damian Maye has had a new paper accepted for publication in Veterinary Record, which derives from a social research project on exotic livestock disease that Damian was involved with for Defra.

Damian Mayer and James Kirwan are once again very much involved in the annual RGS-IBG conference, where they are organising a session on food system sustainability and resilience and also co-presenting three research papers.