The risks associated with two invasive tree pest and disease outbreaks in the UK, ash dieback and oak processionary moth, are considered in a new paper co-authored by CCRI's Julie Urquhart, which has been published in Environmental Science and Policy.

Janet Dwyer and Dan Keech were at the Urban Futures 2 Symposium last week (5th to 7th September), which aimed to research the territory between rurality and urbanity in the 21st century.

CCRI's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Marco Della Gala, will be in Vicenza, Italy, between 18th to 20th September to participate in PRO-VE2017 - 18th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises.

The CCRI welcomes Julie Urquhart to the team today (1st September) as a Senior Research Fellow

Damian Maye, James Kirwan, Dilshaad Bundhoo and Hannah Chiswell are at the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG, where Brexit is very much at the forefront of the CCRI presentations.

Janet Dwyer is currently at the XV EAAE Congress in Parma, Italy, where she is presenting a paper linked to research on the EU funded PEGASUS project.

CCRI Director, Professor Janet Dwyer, has just returned to the CCRI after spending two months during the summer in Kyoto, Japan, where she undertook an OECD Research Fellowship.

Some abstracts of the CCRI presentations are now available for the XXVIIth ESRS Conference, which took place in Krakow, Poland, from 24th to 27th July.

The data collection for the inventory for the EU H2020 Agridemo-F2F project has now commenced and the project team is appealing for farmers in Wales involved in demonstration activities to identify themselves or expect to be contacted by the research team.