BA (Hons) Geography, PgCert (Academic Practice), PhD (Politics), FHEA
Email: hchiswell1@glos.ac.uk
Profile
Hannah started at CCRI in March 2017, after working as a Research Fellow at the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter. Hannah describes herself as a rural social scientist, with a broad interest in primary producers' behaviour in response to policy, and the implications for our land, seas and the wider environment. Her diverse research interests are united by a common aim to engage with stakeholders in complex policy areas. Recently, Hannah has worked on a range of projects relating to agri-environment schemes, intergenerational farm transfer, fishing and angling policy, digital media use in land management and self-monitoring within the AES framework.
She has a particular interest in the use of qualitative analysis software (NVivo) and is a certified NVivo expert, delivering training sessions to students and staff throughout the University. As well as this, Hannah is an ESRI certified user of ArcGIS and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PgCAP), awarded in 2018.
Hannah holds project management certificates in PRINCE2 foundation and APM Project Management fundamentals.
Recent projects
As PI or Co-I:
- Defra funded ‘Rural England: Local perspectives on community and economy’ [2020-2021] (Co-I)
- Natural England funded ‘Land manager guidance testing: an evaluation’ [2019-2020] (PI)
- Natural England funded ‘A social science analysis of the challenges, opportunities, benefits and disbenefits of the provision of self-monitoring and evidence by farmer/land managers within AES’ [2019-2020] (PI)
- Defra funded ‘Co-designing the principles for defining low impact fishing’ [2018-2019] (Co-I)
- Natural England funded ‘ELM Guidance digital media: literature review and behavioural analysis’ [2018] (PI)
Hannah has also worked as a named researcher on the following projects:
- NE funded ‘Social science evidence for delivery of better agri-environment schemes’
- Defra funded ‘Assessing participation of the fishing sectors in UK science and management’
- H2020 funded ‘Sustainable finance for sustainable agriculture and fisheries (SUFISA)’
- H2020 funded ‘Building an interactive AgriDemo-Hub: farmer to farmer learning (Agri-DemoF2F)’
Recent Publications
Journal articles
Marchand, F., Cooreman, H., Pappa, E., Perifanos, I., Alexpoulos, Y., Koutsouris, A., Debruyne, L., Chiswell, H., and Ingram, J. (forthcoming) ‘Effectiveness of on-farm demonstration events in the EU: role of structural characteristics’, The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.
Ingram, J., Chiswell, H., Marchand, F., Cooreman, H., Pappa, E., Perifanos, I., Alexpoulos, Y., Koutsouris, A. and Debruyne, L. (forthcoming) ‘Situating demonstrations within contemporary agricultural advisory system contexts: analysis of demonstration programmes across Europe’, The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.
Thorsøe, M., Noe, E., Maye, D., Vigani, M., Kirwan, J., Chiswell, H., Grivins, M., Adamsone-Fiskovica, A., Tisenkopfs, T.,Tsakalou, E., Aubert, P., Loveluck, W. (2020) ‘Responding to change: Farming system resilience in the continuously evolving European dairy market – a comparative case study of five different EU countries’, Land Use Policy p.1-11.
Maye, D., Chiswell, H.M., Vigani, M., Kirwan, J. (2018) ‘Brexit agriculture: the potential for a lived experience perspective’, Space and Polity, 22 (2): 270-286.
Cooreman, H., Vandenabeele, J., Debruyne, J., Ingram, J., Chiswell, H., Koutsouris, A., Pappa, E. and Marchand, F. (2018) ‘A conceptual framework to investigate the role of peer learning processes at on-farm demonstrations in the light of sustainable agriculture’, International Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2018: 91-103.
Ingram, J., Chiswell, H., Mills, J., Debruyne, L., Cooreman, H., Koutsoruis, A., Pappa, E. and Marchand, F. (2018) ‘Enabling learning in demonstration farms: A literature review’, International Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2018: 29-42.
Chiswell, H.M. and Lobley, M. (2018) “It’s definitely a good time to be a farmer”: Successor creation and the ‘renaissance in British agriculture’, Rural Sociology, 83 (3): 630-653.
Chiswell, H.M. ‘From generation to generation: changing dimensions of intergenerational farm transfer’, Sociologia Ruralis 58 (1): 104-125.
Chiswell, H.M. and Wheeler, R. (2016) ‘“As long as you’re easy on the eye”: Reflecting on issues of positionality and researcher safety during farmer interviews’, Area, 48 (2): 229-235.
Chiswell, H.M. and Lobley, M. (2015) ‘A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A reply to Heike Fischer and Rob J.F. Burton’s Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles’, Sociologia Ruralis, 5 (2): 150-154.
Chiswell, H. M. (2014) ‘The value of the 1941–1943 National Farm Survey as a method for engagement with farmers in contemporary research’, Area, 46: 426-434.
Chiswell, H.M. (2014) ‘The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus’, Geography Compass 8 (5): 300-312.
Chiswell, H.M. (2012) ‘Cultivating narratives: Cultivating successors – A reply to Steiger et al’, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, Winter 2012/13, 3 (2): 25.
A full list of Hannah's publications, including research reports and book chapters, can be found on the UoG repository
Hannah Chiswell’s recent activities
CCRI research into fishers’ participation in management and science of fisheries published by Defra

Defra have published CCRI research how professional fishers and recreational anglers participate in the management and science of fisheries in England.
New paper on social indicators for agri-environment schemes published

A team at CCRI, led by Jane Mills have recently published a paper in Sustainability entitled ‘Developing Farm-Level Social Indicators for Agri-Environment Schemes: A Focus on the Agents of Change’.
CCRI team have paper published in The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

Researchers from the CCRI are leading authors in a new paper to be published in the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Publication updates for CCRI Researchers

A number of CCRI researchers are authors of a chapter in a new book entitled ‘Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions’.
APM Qualification Success

Congratulations to our colleagues who have recently passed their APM Project Management Fundamentals qualification.
Summer publication successes by CCRI researchers

The summer period has been a successful time for CCRI researchers with five papers having been published or accepted for publication.