We will be setting up stalls at the Cheltenham and Cirencester farmers' markets (on 10th and 11th November respectively) to give short talks and chat with members of the public about our latest food and farming research and how it affects the products we buy. These are free events as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
John Powell, who is currently in China has managed to find the centre of the Universe (we are unsure whether he means the observable or known!) If you would like to know where this is, read more in his latest blog post!
Paul Courtney has had a paper published which describes a programme of action research which has developed a user-friendly tool to assist smaller social purpose organisations to explore, evidence and value the benefits that they produce for society.
IASC president John Powell is currently in China and attending the first ever commons themed conference. Focusing on water governance, John has been visiting a number of locations observing related issues and has had an opportunity to produce a short blog post detailing his experiences so far.
Dr Joo-In Seong, our visiting researcher from South Korea, is making a presentation as part of the CCRI Seminar Series on Thursday 26th October on 'Rural changes in Korea’s modernisation and new rurality for the future', which is based on his sabbatical research. The seminar is free to attend.
Julie Ingram was in Portugal last week representing the EU funded VALERIE and AgridemoF2F projects at the Agri Innovation summit 2017 (AIS 2017).
John Powell has been participating in the first ever workshop on commons to be held in China, which was attended by over 80 participants at Tsinghua University in Beijing on 14th and 15th October 2017.
The first installment from the new placement student Katie, who started at CCRI the beginning of September. Read more to find out what she has been up to in the last month, the work she is doing with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and the places she has been exploring.
The CCRI is running a Twitter completion - 'Name the cardboard cow'! - in connection with a free ESRC Festival event 'From Moo to You' that they are running at Asda in Gloucester on Monday 6th November. #moo2u