CCRI Seminar Series

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Seminar Programme 2009/10:

  • Thursday 10 June 2010. Saville Kushner, Professor of Public Evaluation at the University of the West of England will introduce the newly formed UWE Unit for Evaluation and Public Value.
    Professor Saville also outlined his approach to evaluation research, why it is so important, and why there are opportunities for collaborative work with CCRI.
  • Thursday, 29 April 2010 Janet Dwyer presented a talk on the RUDI project.
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.
  • Thursday 1 April 2010 Martin Philips from the Department of Geography, University of Leicester, presented a talk entitled 'Sensing baroque rurality: an investigation of affordance and affect in an English village'.
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.
  • Thursday 18 March 2010. Neil Weilley from UWE presented a talk on 'New uses for old plants - possible synergy between CCRI and CRIPS'
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.
  • Tuesday 9 March 2010. In conjunction with the University of Gloucestershire's Centre for the Study of Floods and Communities.
    Tracey Coates from the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University spoke on: Looking for 'Local Community': Understanding the social processes involved in coping with and adapting to floods, in urban and rural contexts.
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.
  • Thursday 4 March 2010 David Baldock, Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) presented 'Environmental Integration in EU policy: progress and prospects after two decades of experience'
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus, Room TC014
  • Thursday 25 February 2010. Sandrina Pereira, CCRI Research Assistant, presented a talk on her research
  • Thursday 18 February 2010. Gareth Enticott of Cardiff University presented 'Living with Animal Disease: Communities of Veterinary Practice and the Surveillance of Bovine Tuberculosis'
  • Thursday 4 February 2010. Emma Dennis of UWE, who spent one year in the CCRI as a placement student, presented a talk on her research 'The Implications for Kenyan French Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Producers and Exporters of Changes to EC Directive 91/414/EEC'.

    • Venue: Park Campus, Room tbc
    Time: 12h15 - 13h15
  • Thursday 21 January 2010. Oliver Moss, CCRI PhD Student, presented a talk on his research
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus
  • Thursday 3 December 2009. Dr Jenny Deaville, Research Manager at Institute of Rural Health Jane Randall Smith, Chief Executive at Institute of Rural Health
    Title: "Rural health and wellbeing - establishing the evidence base"
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus
  • Thursday 15 October 2009. Dr. K. A. Riley, Researcher, Rural Livelihoodsnef (the new economics foundation)
    Title 'Exploring asset based approaches to community development: the issue of ownership'.
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus
  • Dr Vaughan HigginsThursday 8 October 2009. Dr Vaughan Higgins from Monash University, Victoria, Australia, will be presenting a seminar paper as part of his visit to CCRI
    Biosecurity Risk and the (Anti)Politics of Trade Liberalisation: The Case of New Zealand Apple Imports into Australia
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.



  • Mark ShepheardThursday 1 October 2009. Mark Shepherd (pictured right); Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England.
    Title 'Farmers' stewardship responsibility and a duty of care'.
    Venue: University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.




    • Completed 2008/09 Programme

  • 14 May 2009 Jilly Hall, Natural England: talk on research into social capital and collective action for the environment.
  • Tuesday, 28 April 2009. Professor Tom Woolley, informal session on how sustainable building and design can be useful in research into countryside and community projects. Tom will outline some of the recent research he has been involved in.
  • Tuesday, 28 April 2009. Professor Brian Ilbery Inaugural Lecture, 'Food supply chains; the long and short of it'
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  • Thursday, 16 April 2009. Professor Jo Little. Head of Department of Geography University of Exeter 'Nature, health and well-being: the therapeutic space of the rural spa'.
    University of Gloucestershire Park Campus.
  • Thursday, 26 March 2009. Matt Jones, Wetlands Officer at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.'Farming Floodplains for the Future'.
    University of Gloucestershire Park Campus, Cheltenham.
  • Thursday, 12 February 2009. Dr Mark Riley, Department of Geography University of Portsmouth, "Post-productive people?: a pilot study of farming retirement"
  • Frenchay Campus UWE based CCRI staff presentations. Thursday, 29 January 2009.
    1. Chad Staddon: 'Critical Political Ecologies of Wood and Water' This presentation looked at recent publications on the social agency of the non-human using case studies from forestry and water management in Bulgaria and the UK.
    2. Jenny Hill 'Conserving tropical forest: from 'fortress' conservation to sustainable use' in which Jenny talked about her PhD research in Ghana, which privileged 'ecological fortress conservation' before moving on to her more recent work on ecotourism and environmental education in Peru and Australia.
    3. Alan Terry 'Ten years after: assessing the impact of the commercialisation of subsistence farming on the Komati pilot Project, Swaziland.' This set out how the sugar industry has been adopted by smallholder farmers and considers which model of development is best suited in a world where Swaziland no longer has access to premium prices by dint of its membership of the EU Sugar Protocol.
  • Constance Fleuriot. Pervasive Media Studios Bristol, 'Mediascapes'Thursday 11th December, 2008
  • Dr.Janet Dwyer, Reader in Rural Studies, CCRI, 'Reviewing the EU rural development measures - challenges and pointers for the future', Thursday 27 November, 2008
  • Laurens Klerkx, Wageningen University (pictured right), "Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: experiences with innovation intermediaries", Thursday 19th June, 2008
  • Dan Keech and Dr. Jim Sumberg, New Economics Foundation , Thursday 22nd May, 2008
  • Dr. Peter Mills, Warwick University, Thursday 24th April, 2008
  • Dr. Martin Caraher, City University, "The need for multiple mapping approaches in food access work", Thursday 27th March, 2008
  • Alan Butler, Exeter University, "Social Network Analysis",Thursday 28th February, 2008
  • Alan Greer, Reader in Politics and Public Policy at University of the West of England , "Agricultural Policy", Thursday 14th February, 2008

For further information about the CCRI Seminar series, please contact the convener of the series, Dr Owain Jones or Jill Harper.

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