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.
Name | Role | Keywords |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr Steve Guilbert |
Research Fellow |
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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 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. |
Name | Role | Keywords |
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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 |
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Dr Eleanor Hadley Kershaw |
Senior Research Fellow |
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Dr Nick Kirsop-Taylor |
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Governance |
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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.
Name | PhD title |
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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 |
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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. |
Name | Position | Organisation |
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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 |
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Alessandro Guglielmo |
Research Associate |
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John Harvey |
Research Associate |
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Dr Jed Hilton |
Research Associate |
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Dr Gordon Morris | Research Associate | Freelance Researcher |