Mapping Rural Broadband with GIS
Rob Berry, CCRI's GIS expert has been working on a project that has required him to map the speed of rural broadband across England and Wales. In this post he shares some of his methods and the early results.
Completed research projects
View completed research projects carried out by CCRI.
Development of a Monitoring and Evaluation framework and a Forecast SROI for Hulme Community Garden Centre (HCGC) and to support the Growing Health network
A project that invokes development of a theory of Change and forecasts Social return on investment (SROI).
Ex-Post Evaluation of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) 2007-2013
Report on the impacts, effectiveness and efficiency of RDP expenditure.
SOFIA (Situated Learning Opportunities (SLOs) fostered by ICT applications in Alternative Agro-Food Networks )
Completed in February 2018, SOFIA created a Smartphone app called 'MiLarder' to help people access local food.
SUS-CHAIN – Marketing sustainable agriculture: an analysis of the potential role of new food supply chains in sustainable rural development
Dr James Kirwan, together with Bill Slee and Carolyn Foster (both formerly of the CCRI), completed an analysis of the potential role of new food supply chains in sustainable rural development during the period 2003 to 2006, as part of…
The ‘good farmer’: farmer identities and the control of exotic livestock disease in England
Social research project conducting primary research with animal keepers and vets to provide evidence on the impact of current exotic disease compensation policy on animal keeper behaviour.
SoilCare
The overall aim of SoilCare was to identify and evaluate promising soil-improving cropping systems and agronomic techniques that increase the profitability and sustainability of agriculture across Europe.
Rural Sustainable Drainage System (RSuDs)
CCRI has been working with Stroud District Council to tackle floods and help wildlife on the streams of the Stroud valleys.
State of Farming in Exmoor study
In November 2014, the CCRI won a new research project to explore the current state of Exmoor farming and analyse how it may change in the future.