Completed projects

Assessing the Mental Health Benefits of Walking the South West Coast Path

Matt Lobley

Natural England

2022 - 2022

Production of comprehensive labour market information for the agricultural and horticultural sectors

Matt Lobley

TIAH

2022 - 2022

Future Farming Resilience Fund Interim Phase Evaluation

Matt Lobley

DEFRA (via Ipsos MORI)

2021 - 2022

Understanding Public Food Procurement in the HotSW region

Matt Lobley

Devon County Council

2021 - 2022

Overcoming the Knowledge to Action Gap

Matt Lobley

Forest Research

2021 - 2023

Farming resilience: civil society's role in supporting vulnerable rural communities through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Matt Lobley

ESRC UKRI Covid Rapid Response

2021 - 2022

Agricultural Wellbeing

Matt Lobley

Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI)

2020 - 2021

A Helping Hand. Alternative sources of agricultural labour for farms in the U.K.

Matt Lobley

The Worshipful Company of Farmers and the John Oldacre Foundation

2020 - 2021

Loneliness, social isolation and mental health in farming communities: An analysis of social and cultural factors

Matt Lobley

Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network (funded by UKRI)

2020 - 2021

Rural isolation and COVID-19: Faith, worship and social contact

Matt Lobley

ARC (Arthur Rank Centre)

2020 - 2020

Food System Impacts of COVID-19

Michael Winter

UKRI - ESRC

2020 - 2021

Collaboration and Incentives Commission – Exploring the effectiveness of collaborative mechanisms, incentives and alternative approaches for delivering environmental outcomes at large spatial scales through ELM

Matt Lobley

Defra

2020 - 2021

The Prince’s Countryside Fund: Livestock Auction Marts Research Project

Michael Winter

The Prince's Countryside Fund and the John Oldacre Foundation Endowment

2019 - 2020

BCHT: Bio-Cultural Heritage Tourism

Michael Winter

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

2018 - 2021

Demonstration test catchment Project - LM0304 (Phase 2 - Extension)

Michael Winter

DEFRA

2017 - 2017

NFU Mutual Farm and Rural Succession

Matt Lobley

NFUM

2017 - 2020

Nuffield Farming Lecture scholarship

Michael Winter

2017 - 2018

Systems Change - Towards a Circular Economy SL-07647

Matt Lobley

EPSRC

2016 - 2019

Managing bovine TB in the UK: a disease at the intersections of the human, owned and wild

Angela Cassidy

Wellcome Trust

2016 - 2017

SUSTAinable Intensification Network - SUSTAIN

Michael Winter

BBSRC

2016 - 2018

Determining the Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on Cultural Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being

Cheryl Willis

NERC

2016 - 2016

Exploring biodiversity values in the Somerset Levels with ‘ecological entrepreneurs’

Timothy Wilkinson

NERC

2016 - 2016

The viability of the UK family farm

Michael Winter

Prince's Countryside Fund

2015 - 2016

Environmental Effectiveness of the HLS Stewardship Scheme, resurvey SL-07102

Michael Winter

Natural England via NERC CEH

2015 - 2017

Valuing Nature

Michael Winter

NERC CEH

2014 - 2019

Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship Award: Determining the impact of forest gardens on raspberry production

BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council)

2014 - 2016

Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship Award: Determining the impact of forest gardens on raspberry production

Emma Pilgrim

BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council)

2014 - 2016

Sustainable Intensification Platform

Michael Winter

DEFRA

2014 - 2017

Public Dialogue UK National Ecosystem Assessment

Robert Fish

NERC (National environmental research council)

2013 - 2014

CSF (Catchment Sensitive Farming) Motivations

Robert Fish

Environment Agency

2013 - 2013

Evaluation of the Family Business Growth Programme as part of the Rural Growth Network

Matt Lobley

DEFRA

2013 - 2014

UK NEA (Work Module 3: Cultural Ecosystem Case studies)

Robert Fish

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)

2012 - 2013

Research to Inform the Farming Help Charities

Matt Lobley

Farm Crisis Network

2012 - 2013

Development of a UK knowledge exchange demonstrator projects and their interest groups

Robert Fish

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

2011 - 2014

The Impact of Social Purpose Organisations on Skills and Training

Matt Lobley

South West Forum, Big Lottery Fund

2011 - 2013

South West Agricultural Resource Management (SWARM)

Matt Lobley

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)/SWRDA

2011 - 2013

Validation of Fertiliser Manual (RB209) recommendations for grassland

Matt Lobley

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

2011 - 2015

Economic Impact Assessment of Bovine Tuberculosis in the South West

Michael Winter

National Farmers Union

2010 - 2010

Processes of Technical Change in British Agriculture: Innovation in the Farming of South West England, 1935 - 1985

Michael Winter

ESRC

2009 - 2012

Farmcat - Improving the success of agri-environment initiatives

Matt Lobley

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

2009 - 2010

Sustainable Rural Futures (SRF)

Michael Winter

Devon County Council (DCC)

2009 - 2022

Farm Incomes in Devon

Matt Lobley

Devon County Council

2008 - 2009

Land - the New Debate - Workshop

Matt Lobley

Commission for Rural Communities

2008 - 2008

Sustainable Food and Farming Strategy: Regional Indicator Analysis

Matt Lobley

South West Chamber of Rural Enterprise (SWCORE)

2007 - 2007

Improving the Success of Agri-Environment Initiatives: the Role of Farmer Learning and Landscape Context

Michael Winter

ERSC

2006 - 2012

Entry to and exit from farming: implications for the well-being of farm household members in the South West

Matt Lobley

Griff Davies Legacy

2006 - 2014