This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the proposal to establish what is now the Rural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). To mark this event, the Research Group is planning to …

The Rural Geography Research Group Committee are extremely sad to report that Professor Paul Cloke of the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Exeter, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday 25th May. Amongst his richly diverse contributions to Geography, Paul had …

The Countryside and Community Research Institute’s annual Winter School took place on March 3rd and 4th. In this post, we hear from two attendees who received travel bursaries from the RGRG.

Lamis Jamil, Centre …

Natasha Coleman (Swansea University) and Hannah Budge (Newcastle University)

Nan Shepherd’s spirited title The Living Mountain arcs towards a modern era of environmental catastrophe, world crises and deep need for re-connection to the natural world, whilst hovering in the …

Session Organisers: Professor Martin Phillips and Dr Sophie Tindale

Notions of recovery abound in contemporary discourses of the countryside, not least in policy
statements and schemes drawing attention to and promoting actions in relation to landscape, nature
and covid …

Natasha Coleman (@ncc_96, Swansea University) and Hannah Budge (@HannahBudge, Newcastle University)

Braiding Sweetgrass, originally published in 2013 by Robin Wall Kimmerer – who styles herself on her homepage ‘mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member …

The RGRG will be sponsoring several sessions at this year’s Annual Conference. You can find details about each of them by clicking on the links below.

For emancipatory rural futures in the metropolitan countryside(s).

Getting to Grips …

Session organisers: Felipe da Silva Machado (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Keith Halfacree (Swansea University, UK)

The metropolis and the countryside are typically understood as relatively distinct and incongruent forms of geographical space. However, agricultural land, rural-urban …

Session organisers: Chris Short (CCRI, University of Gloucestershire, cshort@glos.ac.uk) and Kerry Waylen (James Hutton Institute, Kerry.waylen@hutton.ac.uk)

Proposed format: 1) Paper session with 4-5 papers plus discussion (possibly hybrid) 2) followed by
world café workshop. 2 time slots requested.

Abstract
A …

Convenors: Aimee Morse and Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins
Affiliation: Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire

Session type: Online workshop
Duration: 1 session

Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has renewed attention to flexibility and adaptability in rural research.
Perhaps more …