Collaborating Partners
The CCRI works with many organisations in both the private and public sectors to support and complement the expertise of the Institute.
UK partners
Jane Mills has been working with Graeme Kirkham from Cornwall County Council on the 'Peatland restoration on Exmoor' project for the Exmoor National Park Authority. Jane has also been active in our continuing relationship with the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), and worked with Nigel Boatman (Fera) on 'Estimating the incidental socio-economic impacts of Environmental Stewardship' for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and Natural England’s ‘Attitudinal survey to evaluate the implementation of Uplands Entry Level Stewardship’. Nigel Boatman and Naomi Jones are also working with Jane on 'Farmer attitudes and evaluation of outcomes to on-farm environmental management'. Also involved in this project are the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter, and Peter Carey from Bodsey Ecology Limited.
Peter Gaskell has been working with Nigel Boatman on a project for the Defra Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory, entitled ‘Economic and environmental impacts of changes in support measures for the English uplands – an in-depth forward look from the farmer’s perspective’.
Damian Maye is leading the Defra funded social science study to accompany the Badger Vaccine Deployment project, and is working with Andy Mitchell and Ruth Blackwell, from the Animal Health Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Gareth Enticott from the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University and Gavin Wilson and Iain Trewby from Fera.
Chris Short has been working with the Foundation for Common Land on the ‘Assessment of single farm payment on graziers in the UK & Ireland’ for the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism. Chris also is working with the Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) on a project for Natural England to assess and develop an integrated local delivery model to inspire and enable local communities in the delivery of national environmental targets.
James Kirwan, Damian Maye and Brian Ilbery are working with Joy Carey, from F3 – the Local Food Consultants on the Local Food Programme evaluation.
The CCRI currently has three Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) collaborative PhD studentships (CASE). Chris Bell is working on a studentship co-funded by the National Trust, entitled ‘Investigating the economic impacts of the restoration and adaptive re-use of historic farm buildings’; Nick Prince is working with ACES (Association of Chief Estates Surveyors) Rural Practice Branch and Gloucester City Council; and Julie Smith is working with the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA).
Carol Kambites, Paul Courtney and Malcolm Moseley are collaborating with Sally Pickering from Gloucestershire Association for Voluntary and Community Action (GAVCA) on a project for the South West Forum, entitled ‘Proving our value’, the aim of which is to develop a toolkit to allow voluntary and community organisations to estimate the value of their economic impact.
Nigel Curry has been working with Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson of the Education Department at the University of Bath on a Sports Council for Wales project ‘Mentro Allan’. Nigel is also engaged on the ESRC funded project ‘Grey and pleasant land’ which is part of the New Dynamics of Ageing research programme and is a collaborative venture with Paul Milbourne of the University of Cardiff, Catherine Hennessey and others at the University of Plymouth, Vanessa Burholt and Judith Phillips of Swansea University and Kip Jones and others at the University of Bournemouth. Nigel’s work on the ‘Evaluation of the Rural Activity Care Pathway in South Staffordshire’ was conducted with Chris Gidlow of the University of Staffordshire, as well as other colleagues at the University of Gloucestershire.
Matt Reed and Paul Courtney are working with Rob Lillywhite from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick on a Defra project, 'Methodology for assessing the environmental, economic and social characteristics of (organic and non-organic) farming systems'.
Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye were part of the ESRC Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU) ‘Growing risk’ project, led by Peter Mills who moved from the University of Warwick to Harper Adams University College whilst working on the project. Imperial College London was also a partner in this research, as was Alan Macleod, from Fera.
Finally, Paul Courtney worked with Andrew Copus of the Millennium Institute, which is now part of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) on the ‘European Development Opportunities in Rural Areas’ (EDORA) project, and Matt Reed and Paul Courtney worked with Jeremy Phillipson at the Centre for Rural Economy (CRE) at Newcastle University on the 'Social impacts of fishing' project.
International and European collaboration
FP7 CAPRI-RD
The CCRI is contributing its expertise on rural development policy on this EU project, which is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and led by the
Institute for
Food and Resource Economics at Bonn University, Germany.
The other institutions working on the project are the Joint
Research Centre (JRC) units in Ispra, Italy, and
Seville, Spain; Landbouw-Economisch Instituut, the Netherlands; Middle East Technical University, Turkey; the Von Thunen Institute in Germany; the Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland; the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), London.
Examining the impact of partial and full decoupling of CAP pillar 1 support in the EU IPA Programming and Project Preparation Facility
Janet Dwyer worked on this project, which was led by COGEA, an Italian company specialising in the field of technical assistance, planning, evaluation, management and the control of programmes and initiatives co-financed with EU Structural Funds.
Assessing the Impact of Rural Development Policies (RuDI)
Janet Dwyer and other members of CCRI staff worked with a number of European partners on this EU FP7 project. The co-collaborators were
IFLS, Institute for Rural Development Research at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany; INEA, National Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rome, Italy; Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands;
Department of Agricultural Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Federal Institute for Less Favoured and Mountainous areas, Vienna, Austria; Chair of Agricultural Economics, Policy and Law, Ljubljana University, Slovenia; NORDREGIO, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, Stockholm, Sweden; CEET, Centre for Ecological Engineering, Tartu, Estonia; and VUZE, Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic.
FP7 Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Transition: towards a more effective and efficient Support of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture (SOLINSA)
Julie Ingram, Nigel Curry, James Kirwan, Damian Maye and
Katarina Kubinakova are working with several European
partners on this project. The partners are the Research Institute
of Organic Farming (FiBL), Switzerland; University of Pisa; Wageningen University; AGRIDEA (the Swiss Association for the Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas), Switzerland; Federal Institute for Technology, Switzerland; Baltic Studies Centre, Latvia; Institut de L’Evevage, France; University of Hohenheim, Germany; and Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.
FP7 Sustainable Farm Management Aimed at Reducing Threats to SOILs under climate change (SmartSOIL)
Julie Ingram and Jane Mills are working on this project with the following partners:
Aarhus University, Denmark; University of Aberdeen, UK (Scotland); University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Alterra, Netherlands; University of Florence, Italy; Ecologic Institute, Germany; Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Scottish Agricultural College, UK (Scotland); Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejsiego, Poland; Le Groupe-conseil baastel sprl, Belgium; Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, Hungary.
Above information correct as at 1 August 2011
