People

The Centre for Rural Policy Research is co-directed by Professor Matt Lobley and Professor Harry G West. The centre administrator is Melissa Hawkins.

CRPR members

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Matt Lobley	Co-Director, Professor, Rural Resource Management	Sociology of agriculture; Health and well-being in agriculture; succession and retirement; land and agri-environmental management; agricultural restructuring
Professor Harry G West	Co-Director, Professor, Anthropology	Political anthropology; history and culture of agrarian societies; food studies; food systems and alternative food networks; heritage foods; geographical appellations and indications; terroir; artisan cheesemaking.
Melissa Hawkins	Administrator/PA to Directors of CRPR
Dr Paul Brassley	Honorary Research Fellow	Freelance Researcher
Dr Catherine Broomfield	Postgraduate Research Associate	Rural sociology, farming and society, farmer public engagement, farmer-nonfarmer relationship, food system transition, sustainable livestock farming
Dr Angela Cassidy	Senior Lecturer, SPA
Dr Paul Cleave	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Steve Emery	Senior Lecturer, SPSPA
Dr Steve Guilbert	Research Fellow
Dr Keith Howe	Senior Research Fellow.
Dr Caroline Nye	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Carolyn Petersen	Research Fellow	Environmental governance, policy learning and change; nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation; links between environment and health and wellbeing; sustainable tourism
Dr Celia Plender	Lecturer, Sociology of Food	Anthropology of food; food cooperatives; community organising; mutual aid; food and housing insecurity; everyday politics
Professor Duncan Russel	Professor, Politics
Dr Fatma Sabet	Research Fellow	Sustainable food systems; climate change; sustainable school food
Dr Ryan Shum	Research Fellow
Dr Rebecca Wheeler	Research Fellow	Health and well-being in agriculture; Environmental land management; Rural sustainability and resilience; Public engagement in farming; Rural sociology
Dr Tim Wilkinson	Research Fellow
Professor Michael Winter	Chair of Management Board, Professor, Land Economy and Society	Sociology of agriculture; agrarian history; agro-food systems; land use change.

Affiliated members

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Stewart Barr	Professor of Geography
Dr David Benson	Associate Professor, Politics (Cornwall)
Professor Steffen Boehm	Professor in Organisation and Sustainability (Cornwall)
Professor Claire Dunlop	Professor of Politics and Public Policy
Jessica Evans	Nursery & Assistant Horticultural Manager
Dr Eleanor Hadley Kershaw	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Nick Kirsop-Taylor	Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Governance
Professor Jo Little	Professor in Gender and Geography
Professor Stefano Pascucci	Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy
Dr Clare Saunders	Associate Professor, Environment & Sustainability Institute (Cornwall)
Dr Joanie Willett	Lecturer, Politics (Cornwall)
Dr Hugh Williamson	Research Fellow
Dr Rosalie Jones Mcvey	Research Fellow	Anthropology, ethics, morality, mental health, horses, politics, green social prescribing
Dr Charles Masquelier	Associate Professor
Dr Lucy Szaboova	Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Other staff

The Centre for Rural Policy Research receives input from a number of University of Exeter academics from other departments and disciplines, plus visiting staff from other institutions.

The Centre is also home to a number of PhD researchers, and is guided by an expert Advisory Board.

PhD researchers

Name	PhD title
Caroline Aitken	Agroecological Transition: Lessons from the new British peasantry
Alessandro Guglielmo	Mutual Metabolisms: Land, Food and More-than-human Bodies in Rural Sardinia
William Jaggard	Painfully delicious: What producing and consuming chilli says about individual identity in British society
Jill Lidgey	The role and future of town markets in the 21st Century
Aoife Maher	Exploring the barriers to alternative horticultural uses for grazing lands
Hannah Mortimer	Human-animal interactions and feeding practices on British farms
Anna Seecharan	Food knowledge in migratory bodies: an embodied approach to taste/smell memories through time and space.
Giulia Nicolini	Eating seaweed in the U.K.: Understanding how culture intersects with the environmental sustainability of food
Jo Furtando	Predicting future cultural and natural heritage scenarios on common land
Nina Serbedzija	Farming heritage: Native breed 'revitalisation' in Istria and South West England
Skylar Collins	Understanding Mental Health, Wellbeing and Risk in UK-small scale fisheries

Recently completed PhDs

Name	PhD title
Catherine Broomfield	Making it work here: enabling grassland farming communities to develop a place-based response to the global challenge of living within planetary boundaries
Oliver Moore	Feeding time at the zoo: post-war to present day
Jessica Fagin	Boundary and Identity making in “Conventional” and Halal Sheep Slaughter in England
Jed Hilton	The Chef as Activist: The Changing Role and Activism of Contemporary Chefs
Megan Larmer	Towards an edible ethic: land-use, gastronomy, and the politics of rurality in the Hudson Valley
Eimear Mc Loughlin	Slaughterhouse Culture: An Ethnography of Animal Slaughter in Denmark
Hannah Chiswell	Rising to the Food Security Challenge: An Investigation into the Impact of the Food Security Agenda on Farmers and their Successors in the South West of England.
Charlotte-Anne Chivers	Exploring the credibility, relevance and legitimacy of environmental advice provisioning surrounding diffuse water pollution from agriculture
Jen Clements	The Cornish agri-environment: attitudes, values and behaviour in uncertain times
Beth Dooly	The Rowan Johnstone PhD Studentship: Reorientating change: an ethnographic look at how farmer discussion groups within the South West promote social learning and build resilience
Adrian Colston	Stakeholder attitudes to the Dartmoor Commons: tradition, conflict and the search for consensus in an age of atmospheric pollution and climate change
Georgina Crossman	The Organisational Landscape of the English Horse Industry: a Contrast with Sweden and the Netherlands.
Pedro Andrés Garzon Delvaux	Woodfuel Supply Chain Integration in the South West of England; A Transaction Costs Approach to Bioenergy Development
Nicholas Kirsop-Taylor	Land use Futures - An Ecosystem Services Approach to the 'Land between the Moors'
Gordon Morris	People Helping People - An Assessment of the Market Towns and Related Initiatives and the Extent to Which they Addressed Rural Poverty.
Polly Lord	The application of employment law in agriculture
Colin Nolden	Building Capacity for Climate Change Actions in Rural Communities.
Caroline Nye	The John Oldacre Foundation PhD Studentship: Agricultural Labour in the UK: Change and Challenge in the Transition to Sustainable Intensification
Lauren Parry	Policy and Practice for the Sustainable Carbon Management of Moorlands.
Celia Plender	Food Co-ops in Austerity Britain: Negotiating politics, aid and care in changing times
Tom Richardson (Tremough)	Science and the Politics of Sustainability: An Analysis of Four Research-Council Funded Bioenergy Projects.
Virginia Thomas	Navigating the landscapes and boundaries of rewilding
Tim Wilkinson	Perceptions of Exmoor
Cheryl Willis	Harnessing Nature’s Benefits: Problems and Prospects for Recognising the Environmental Basis of Regional Tourist Economies.

Honorary members

Name	Position	Organisation
HONORARY APPOINTMENTS
Andrew Bell	Honorary Research Fellow	North Devon Biosphere and Forestry Commission
Professor Adrian Collins	Honorary Professor	Rothamsted Research
Dr Adrian Colston	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Katharina Graf	Honorary Research Fellow	SOAS Food Studies Centre
Professor Rosie Hails	Honorary Professor	The National Trust
Dr Jilly Hall	Honorary Research Fellow	SPSN: Supporting the People who Support Nature
Kaley Hart	Honorary Senior Research Fellow	IEEP
Dr Matt Heard	Honorary Professor	The National Trust
Dr Oliver Moore	Feeding time at the zoo: post-war to present day
Dr Phil Le Grice	Honorary Research Fellow	Rothamsted Research
Professor John McInerney	Emeritus Professor
Richard Soffe	Honorary Senior Research Fellow	Duchy College Rural Business School
Dr Anne Stobart	Honorary Research Fellow
Sir Harry Studholme	Honorary Professor	Chair of the Forestry Commission
Dr Virginia Thomas	Honorary Research Fellow
ASSOCIATES
Dr Allan Butler	Research Associate	Environment Agency
Dr Beth Dooly	Research Associate
>Dr Jessica Fagin	Research Associate
Alessandro Guglielmo	Research Associate
John Harvey	Research Associate
Dr Jed Hilton	Research Associate

Hear from some of our members

Matt Lobley talks about the CRPR and his research.

Harry West talks about his research on food and cultural heritage.

Angela Cassidy talks about her research.

Celia Plender talks about her research with community food projects.

Steven Emery talks about his research on farming culture and cooperation.

Becca Wheeler talks about her research on health and wellbeing in farming.