
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills in Ghent for new Horizon 2020 project meeting
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending the Agridemo-F2F kick off meeting in Ghent this week. Agridemo-F2F is a new project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending the Agridemo-F2F kick off meeting in Ghent this week. Agridemo-F2F is a new project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

Pete Gaskell and Julie Ingram are visiting one of the VALERIE project forestry case studies this week in the Roncal Valley in the Basque Pyrenees.

Julie Ingram will be in Kazakhstan from the 14th to 18th November, at a British Council Researcher Links Workshop on Management of Innovation in the Agricultural Sector. Julie is acting as mentor for the coordinators of the workshop which aims to increase research capacity of UK and Kazakhstani early career researchers and promote collaboration between them.

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

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.

Julie Ingram is giving a Keynote paper at the 5th Belgian Agroecology Meeting (BAM) in Ghent, Belguim, on Tuesday 20th September. The meeting, which is co-organised by Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO) and Ghent University, is entitled ''Bridging gaps between principles and practices in agroecology".

Dr Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are attending a SmartSOIL one-day conference, which takes place this Wednesday, 30 September, in Brussels.
2026 marks 40 years of the Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI)! We’re proud to celebrate four decades of advancing rural understanding, building enduring research partnerships, and shaping positive change. Our journey began in 1986, when the late Nigel Curry…

As CCRI celebrate its 40th birthday, we talk to four long-standing members of the team about their time here.

Details of the latest publications, including a book chapter whose lead author is PhD student Chloe Thompson and an article by one of the newest members of the CCRI team, Ffion Evans.