More pictures have been published from the Tri-lateral Researcher Links Workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa, which Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch (School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire) led from 29th September to 1st October.
Chris Short successfully nominated the Stroud rural sustainable drainage project for a 2016 Gloucestershire CPRE award for ‘innovative use of natural resources, including land and water’
As part of the VALERIE project dissemination, a CCRI team is in Budapest this week presenting a paper at the 14th European Rural Development Network Conference: Knowledge sharing and innovation in agriculture and rural areas
Janet Dwyer was part of an academic panel yesterday, speaking at Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee in Wales on the future of agriculture and rural policies in Wales.
Founding Professor of CCRI, Nigel Curry, has been elected Chair of the East Midlands Regional Big Food Project Board, which has been set up under the auspices of Public Health England and the Soil Association.
Julie Ingram and Kenny Lynch are leading a Tri-lateral Researcher Links Workshop in Stellenbosch from 29th September to 1st October, thanks to funding secured earlier this year from the UK’s Newton Fund, supported by a British Council Researcher Links award.
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,