The table below shows PhD completions in the CCRI. If you are interested in doing a research degree, or have any questions, please contact Dr Matt Reed, who is responsible for our postgraduate research students.
Name | Date completed | PhD title |
Parker, Gavin | 1997 | Citizens’ rights and private property rights in the English |
Clark, Michael | 1998 | A study of teleworking in rural Britain |
West, Emma | 1998 | The Danube River Basin Environmental Programme: an evaluation of Phase 1 using the policy networks approach |
Green, Daniel | 1999 | The environmental dimension of the European Union LEADER 1 programme |
Hawkins, Virginia | 1999 | Landscape ecological planning: a study of the principles and methods of landscape ecology and their application to the planning and management of rural land use change in Britain |
Walsh, Kathleen | 2000 | The potential of participatory evaluation for rural community development |
Walker, Mark | 2000 | A white and (un)pleasant land?: minority ethnic experiences of the English countryside |
Watts, Kevin | 2002 | Planning for biodiversity in the wider countryside: recognising opportunities, overcoming barriers |
James, Marie-Eva | 2002 | The practice of local partnership in rural development: the case of Newent (UK) and Sault (France) |
Vigileos, George | 2002 | Analysis of institutional structures for sustainable solid waste management for the south west of England |
Boase, Ros | 2002 | Long-distance footpaths as catalysts for local development: the role of Parish Councils |
Rushbrook, Elisabeth | 2003 | Models of controversy: an exploration of cultural theory and the GM crop debate |
Kirwan, James | 2003 | The reconfiguration of producer-consumer relations within alternative strategies in the UK agro-food system: the case of farmers’ markets |
Wright, Nicholas | 2004 | Mapping the language of landownership: discourses of property, management and rurality |
Ingram, Julie | 2005 | Agricultural Advisers and the transition to sustainable soil management in England: an analysis of the role of knowledge and knowledge processes |
Kambites, Carol | 2005 | From global discourse to local action: Town Councils and sustainable development |
Johnson, Richard | 2005 | Principles and means for rural land (re)distribution: a study in South Africa |
Johnson, Gillian | 2005 | Implementing the Rural Development Regulation in South West England: exploring the potential for sustainability in rural land use through policy design |
Groom, Genevieve | 2006 | From ‘Mother Earth’ to ‘Father Holding the Baby’: a gendered analysis of organic agriculture in Gloucestershire, England |
Wragg, Amanda | 2006 | An exploration of the Dynamics of Consensual Approaches in Biodiversity Planning for the Wider Countryside: Evaluating the Usefulness and Applicability of Actor-Network Theory |
Goodenough, Alice | 2006 | The place of young people in the spaces of collective identity: case studies from the Millennium Green scheme |
Hamilton, Kyraleigh | 2007 | Bioregionalism in a UK Context: The Interrelationship Between People, Place and Non-human Nature |
Curtis, Richard | 2008 | Debating the public benefits of community woodlands on degraded land: claims, aspirations and experience at reclamation sites in the North-West of England |
Harper, Richard | 2008 | Countryside Recreational Access: Policy Making and Neorepublican Citizenship |
Julie Urquhart
| 2009 | Public Benefits from Private Forests and Woodland in England: Investigating the Opportunities for Public Good Enhancement |
Valchovska, Stela | 2010 | Entrepreneurship among post-socialist agricultural producers: the case of Bulgaria |
Hart, Jane | 2011 | An evaluation of the effectiveness of the planning system in securing the retention of village services in rural Devon |
Julie Smith | 2011 | The everyday life of food: the cultural economy of the traditional food market in England |
Prince, Nick | 2012 | Agricultural property rights and the county farms estate in England and Wales |
Rhiannon Fisher | 2013 | The role of social capital in increasing the response capacity of south west farmers to bovine tuberculosis |
Bell, Chris | 2015 | The local economic impacts of the conversion and re-use of traditional working buildings |
Cope, Gillian | 2015 | Towards understandings of visitor experience and practices that shape new meanings of place at National Trust sites |
Prichard, Stephen | 2017 | The social construction of landscape scale conservation projects as delivered by The Wildlife Trusts movement in England |
Bundhoo, Dilshaad | 2018 | Developing a context based framework for understanding interpersonal resilience |
Cusworth, George | 2020 | Exploring the long-term social and land management impacts on participants of the Entry Level Stewardship Scheme |
Moss, Oliver | 2020 | "It's all about looking, isn't it?": A critical investigation of the embodied geographies of outdoor drawing and painting |
Skaalsveen, Kamilla | 2020 | Assessing the impact of farming practices on soil functions: achieving benefits for soil, water quality and flow and the farm business |