In this seminar, Innovation for Agriculture will present some key findings from their livestock team’s research on bottom-up approaches to change, and the challenges they have faced trying to shift the hearts and minds of those in UK agriculture.
Going the Extra Mile in Monitoring and Evaluation – the GEM Story
Evaluation Approaches – Capturing Complexity
Co-designing policy and co-producing social evidence

This presentation draws on recent experiences of undertaking co-design for the UK government across two projects: a feasibility study for a new social survey of fishers that is co-produced by policy makers, industry and researchers; and the co-design of criteria for low impact fishing with fisheries stakeholders to inform new fisheries policy and management strategies.
Local and National Food Policy Initiatives
Brexit and Food Citizenship / Food in Japan during COVID-19
Community Supported Agriculture and Veg Box Schemes / Agroecology in Uganda
Local Food after the Pandemic
Going the Extra Mile in Monitoring and Evaluation – the GEM Story
Prof. Paul Courtney and Leonie Burton, University of Gloucestershire Going the Extra Mile (GEM) is a 5-year ESF / Lottery funded Employment Inclusivity programme in Gloucestershire which to date has enabled over 700 people from diverse backgrounds to get closer to employment, training and education. The success of GEM is equally reflected in that of its on-going Monitoring and Evaluation, which through a range of methods has tracked the outcomes and informed the process and management of the programme since its inception in 2016. The seminar will take place in room HC-207 Seminar Room, FCH campus.
Muddying the Waters: The convergence of natural flood management and neoliberal governance in the UK
Dr Steven Emery is lecturer in environment and society based in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on environmental and rural governance with particular interest in the intersection of culture, power and landscape. Abstract: The winter floods of 2013/14 in Southern and Central England were among the worst in recent history and notable for their particular impact on rural communities. Through an environmental justice lens the paper reports findings from research into flood management and community experience of flooding in four English case study areas. Steven argues that the floods