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The Centre for Rural Policy Research encompasses academic staff drawn from a number of disciplines across the University.
Principal Centre staff
The Centre's principal research and administrative staff are based within the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology part of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
| Professor Matt Lobley | Co-Director, Professor, Rural Resource Management | M.Lobley@exeter.ac.uk |
| Professor Harry G West | Co-Director, Professor, Anthropology | H.G.West@exeter.ac.uk |
| Professor Michael Winter | Chair of Management Board, Professor, Land Economy and Society | D.M.Winter@exeter.ac.uk |
Other staff
The Centre for Rural Policy Research receives input from a number of University of Exeter academics from other departments and disciplines, plus visiting staff from other institutions.
The Centre is also home to a number of PhD researchers, and is guided by an expert Advisory Board.
| Name | PhD title |
|---|---|
| Catherine Broomfield |
Making it work here: enabling grassland farming communities to develop a place-based response to the global challenge of living within planetary boundaries |
| Jessica Fagin |
Boundary and Identity making in “Conventional” and Halal Sheep Slaughter in England |
| Jed Hilton |
The Chef as Activist: The Changing Role and Activism of Contemporary Chefs |
| William Jaggard |
Painfully delicious: What producing and consuming chilli says about individual identity in British society |
| Megan Larmer |
Towards an edible ethic: land-use, gastronomy, and the politics of rurality in the Hudson Valley |
| Jill Lidgey |
The role and future of town markets in the 21st Century |
| Aoife Maher |
Exploring the barriers to alternative horticultural uses for grazing lands |
| Oliver Moore | Feeding time at the zoo: post-war to present day |
| Hannah Mortimer | Human-animal interactions and feeding practices on British farms |
| Anna Seecharan |
Food knowledge in migratory bodies: an embodied approach to taste/smell memories through time and space. |
| Jo Furtando |
Predicting future cultural and natural heritage scenarios on common land |
Recently completed PhDs
| Name | PhD title |
|---|---|
| Eimear Mc Loughlin | Slaughterhouse Culture: An Ethnography of Animal Slaughter in Denmark |
| Hannah Chiswell | Rising to the Food Security Challenge: An Investigation into the Impact of the Food Security Agenda on Farmers and their Successors in the South West of England. |
| Charlotte-Anne Chivers | Exploring the credibility, relevance and legitimacy of environmental advice provisioning surrounding diffuse water pollution from agriculture |
| Jen Clements | The Cornish agri-environment: attitudes, values and behaviour in uncertain times |
| Beth Dooly | The Rowan Johnstone PhD Studentship: Reorientating change: an ethnographic look at how farmer discussion groups within the South West promote social learning and build resilience |
| Adrian Colston | Stakeholder attitudes to the Dartmoor Commons: tradition, conflict and the search for consensus in an age of atmospheric pollution and climate change |
| Georgina Crossman | The Organisational Landscape of the English Horse Industry: a Contrast with Sweden and the Netherlands. |
| Pedro Andrés Garzon Delvaux | Woodfuel Supply Chain Integration in the South West of England; A Transaction Costs Approach to Bioenergy Development |
| Nicholas Kirsop-Taylor | Land use Futures - An Ecosystem Services Approach to the 'Land between the Moors' |
| Gordon Morris | People Helping People - An Assessment of the Market Towns and Related Initiatives and the Extent to Which they Addressed Rural Poverty. |
| Polly Lord | The application of employment law in agriculture |
| Colin Nolden | Building Capacity for Climate Change Actions in Rural Communities. |
| Caroline Nye | The John Oldacre Foundation PhD Studentship: Agricultural Labour in the UK: Change and Challenge in the Transition to Sustainable Intensification |
| Lauren Parry | Policy and Practice for the Sustainable Carbon Management of Moorlands. |
| Celia Plender | Food Co-ops in Austerity Britain: Negotiating politics, aid and care in changing times |
| Tom Richardson (Tremough) |
Science and the Politics of Sustainability: An Analysis of Four Research-Council Funded Bioenergy Projects. |
| Virginia Thomas | Navigating the landscapes and boundaries of rewilding |
| Tim Wilkinson | Perceptions of Exmoor |
| Cheryl Willis | Harnessing Nature’s Benefits: Problems and Prospects for Recognising the Environmental Basis of Regional Tourist Economies. |
| Name | Position | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| HONORARY APPOINTMENTS | ||
| Emma-Jayne Abbots | Honorary Senior Lecturer | |
| Andrew Bell | Honorary Research Fellow | North Devon Biosphere and Forestry Commission |
| Dr Paul Brassley | Honorary Research Fellow | Freelance Researcher |
| Dr Paul Cleave | Honorary Research Fellow | |
| Professor Adrian Collins | Honorary Professor | Rothamsted Research |
| Dr Mukta Das | Honorary Research Fellow | |
| Dr Katharina Graf | Honorary Research Fellow | SOAS Food Studies Centre |
| Professor Rosie Hails | Honorary Professor | The National Trust |
| Dr Jilly Hall | Honorary Research Fellow | SPSN: Supporting the People who Support Nature |
| Kaley Hart | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | IEEP |
| Dr Matt Heard | Honorary Professor | The National Trust |
| Professor Natarajan Ishwaran | Honorary Professor | HIST-UNESCO |
| Dr Phil Le Grice | Honorary Research Fellow | Rothamsted Research |
| Professor John McInerney | Emeritus Professor | |
| Richard Soffe | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | Duchy College Rural Business School |
| Dr Nick Sotherton | Honorary University Fellow | Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust |
| Dr Anne Stobart | Honorary Research Fellow | |
| Sir Harry Studholme | Honorary Professor | Chair of the Forestry Commission |
| ASSOCIATES | ||
| Dr Allan Butler | Research Associate | Environment Agency |
| Dr Madeleine Gustavsson | Affiliate |
ECEHH |
| Dr Gordon Morris | Research Associate | Freelance Researcher |