CCRI Seminar Series
The seminar series is open to everyone and aims to provide a flexible vehicle for the dissemination of research and discussion of policy and practice in rural research and policy. The series aims to encourage speakers from a broad range of academic, policy and stakeholder backgrounds to take part, and it remains an important contributor to knowledge transfer within the region.
The seminar series remains a central part of CCRI's role as an international centre of excellence in rural research and knowledge transfer.
Seminar Programme 2010/11:
Forthcoming
- Date: Thursday, 8 December 2011
Venue: University of Gloucestershire Oxstalls Campus, Room LC202.
Time: 14.15 - 15.15 hrs
Details: Alister Scott will be giving a seminar on ‘Crossing the Planning-Environment Divide at the Rural Urban Fringe: Re-connecting theory for spatial planning practice’
Alister is Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at Birmingham City University. He describes himself as a social scientist, geographer and chartered planner with research interests centred around the changing nature of governance and partnerships. His research particularly focuses on the ways sustainable development has been conceptualised and operationalised. Alister's research has explored themes including specialist sustainable rural land use, spatial planning, public engagement and landscape problems. He is currently leading a research-council funded project 'Managing change at the rural-urban fringe' as part of the RELU initiative (Rural Economy and Land Use).
For information regarding forthcoming seminars, please contact Jill Harper.
Completed
- Thursday 17 November 2011
Details: James Taylor talked about the NE and lottery-funded initiative for LEAF, 'Let Nature Feed Your Senses', for which he is project co-ordinator. The project promotes an innovative and very creative approach to establishing visits and longer-term relationships between disadvantaged groups (elderly, mental/physical disability, behavioural difficulties, kids from deprived inner-city areas) and farms (nature, food and land links). - Thursday 8 September 2011
Title: ‘Property pluralism and the partial reflexivity of conservation law: the case of the uplands in England and Wales’
Speaker: Margherita Pieraccini, University of Bristol, who is an environmental law specialist.
Summary: Understanding the functioning of property rights’ systems is a way to value the effectiveness of environmental regulation given that property rights are a fundamental way in which humans interact with the environment. The conceptual boundaries of property are however difficult to draw so that various approaches have been developed to unpack the relationship between property rights and environmental law/regulation. The paper will describe the socio-legal view of property but it also moves beyond it by showing that there is an alternative way to explore the relational character of property. It is argued that not all property systems are isolable from the ecological fabric in which they are exercised. Recognising the ecological embeddedness of certain property relations is important due to its impact on environmental sustainability and environmental conservation. This is not to dismiss the socio-legal perception of property, rather it is to advocate that next to this, there exists another, ecologically embedded perception of property. - Thursday 5 May 2011
Title: Typologies in Planning for Diversified Countryside: a Croatian case study
Speaker: Dr Aleksandar Lukić, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
- Thursday 7 April 2011
Speaker: Meyrick Brentnall of Gloucester City Council discussed the idea of setting up a Regional Park along the washlands of the River Severn through Gloucestershire, and the idea of Regional Parks more generally. - Thursday 27 January 2011
Title: Lost in translation - challenges of relevance and application in flood and soil science
Speaker: Hazel Faulkner, Professor of Environmental Science, The Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University
Professor Faulkner talked about the translation of science in the context of flood and soil risk management. This seminar was presented in conjunction with the University of Gloucestershire Centre for the Study of Floods and Communities. - Thursday, 9 December, 2010
Chris Short, CCRI Senior Research Fellow, CCRI.
INSPIRING AND ENABLING LOCAL COMMUNITIES: A delivery model for Localism and the Environment - Thursday, 2 December, 2010
Dr. Angela Cassidy, ESRC/RELU Research Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
'Badgers and bovine TB: a messy science/policy controversy in the UK press'
- Thursday, 4 November, 2010
Simon Read, Middlesex University
Beyond Commentary: integrating an artist's practice into Flood Risk Management - Thursday 23 September 2010. State of the Countryside 2010, presented by Justin Martin and Dirk Pardoel
- Tuesday, 31 August, 2010. Dr. Chris Rosin from the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE), University of Otago, spoke about current research work at CSAFE, and gave an overview of the centre's transdisciplinary approach to much of what they do. Dr Rosin then went on to talk more specifically about the ARGOS (Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability) project and some transdisciplinary work within this portfolio that compares audit schemes for kiwi fruit production.
See 2009/10 CCRI Seminar Programme
See 2008/09 CCRI Seminar Programme
