Research Associates
Keith Buchanan is an environmental consultant with more than 25 years’ experience of working on biodiversity and landscape issues in the UK and internationally. Having recently completed a final report on a 3 year training programme for protected area managers in the Carpathians, Keith is working on a range of activities in the biodiversity field. He is engaged in ecotourism through leading wildlife watching tours for organisations such as Naturetrek and Eurocamp and is helping to design a training course for environmental professionals in the Czech Republic. Keith will also be spending some time in Central America assisting with biodiversity projects in the Cloud Forest.
Ian Condliffe
is an independent consultant who has advised the UK, Canadian and central European governments on the design and implementation of agri-environment and other land-based schemes. He is particularly interested in upland environmental, agricultural and common land issues and works with policymakers, advocates, scientists, technical advisers and land managers to achieve solutions in these areas. He is currently the UK independent technical adviser for the redesignation of Less Favoured Areas, working with both the UK Government and the European Commission. Ian has worked with CCRI on two recent studies; ‘Assessing the impact of rural development policies (RuDI)’ and the ‘Impacts of changes in support measures for the English Uplands’.
Alan Greer is a Reader in Politics and Public Policy at the
University of the West of England. His main research interests
lie in the field of public policy analysis and governance, with
particular emphasis on comparative agricultural and rural
policy. His publications include ‘Agricultural policy in Europe’
(Manchester University Press 2005) and ‘Policy networks and
policy change in organic agriculture: a comparative analysis
of the UK and Ireland’, (Public Administration 2002).
Andrew Gilg continues to be Series Editor of the Ashgate series on 'Perspectives on rural policy and planning'. He has written a chapter on rural sustainability for the CCRI’s 25th anniversary book and continues to referee papers for leading journals, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Norwegian Government. He is a named consultant on an ESRC bid submitted in the spring of 2011 and has recently published two research papers in Applied Geography and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
Rosie Simpson has over 30 years' experience in rural and environmental policy development, advocacy and training, including work with the Peak National Park, Countryside Commission, English Nature and Natural England. In 2004 she was a visiting researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Montpellier, France, studying the implementation of rural development policy. Rosie now runs her own consultancy in European and UK environmental policy - undertaking research and analysis, training and facilitation. Current and recent projects include leading training programmes for protected area managers in the Danube-Carpathian region, advising on sustainable tourism accreditation and developing related guidance, and research, on rural development implementation.
Martyn Warren spent many years working at the University of Plymouth, his most recent role being Director of the Rural Futures Unit in the School of Geography. He left the University of Plymouth in 2009, but retains a close association with them as a visiting fellow. Martyn now operates as an independent researcher, teacher and trainer. His main areas of expertise include the use of information and communication technology (ICT) by farms, rural businesses and communities; farm and rural business management; rural economic and social development; and rural employment and training. For many years he has been Editor of the Journal of Farm Management, and is interim Editor of the new International Journal of Agricultural Management. He is Chair of Beaford Arts, England’s longest-running rural arts organisation and custodian of the Beaford Archive of photographs of rural life by James Ravilious.
Don Webberis Associate Professor of Economics at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand.
He joined AUT in 2009 having previously been a Reader in
Regional Economics at the University of the West of England.
He is an approved researcher at the UK’s Office for National Statistics and a member of the New Zealand Work and Labour Market Institute. Don is a member of the UK's Office for National Statistics South West Regional Team Advisory Group and the New Zealand representative of the Regional Studies Association. Current research interests include the urban-rural productivity divide and the
microeconomics of spatial productivity differentials. Don has
been a consultant for the UK government’s Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR – part of the former Department of Trade and Industry), the Welsh Assembly Government and the UK's South West Regional Development Agency.
As at 1 August 2011
