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 …
CCRI Winter School 2022
Reflections on Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain
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 …
Rural Landscape, Nature and Social Recoveries: Problems and Potentialities
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 …
Braiding Sweetgrass: RGRG Book Club Discussion
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 …
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2022
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).
For emancipatory rural futures in the metropolitan countryside(s)
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 …
Getting to Grips with Natural Capital – trap or tool for transformation to sustainability?
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 …
From resilient methods to methods for rural resilience
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 …
People moving to the countryside: resurgent again in COVID-19 times… but are they staying?
Session organisers: Keith Halfacree (Swansea University) and Andrew Maclaren (University of Aberdeen)
Permanent residential migration, an established Geography mainstay, has long been
a topic of considerable interest for diverse scholars of rural studies. Whilst some
have examined migration away from …
New and Emerging Rural Researchers: Rural Research at a time of transition.
Session convenors: Hannah Budge (Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, h.budge2@newcastle.ac.uk) and Natasha Coleman (Swansea University, 899535@swansea.ac.uk)
Session format: 2 sessions, to include paper presentations and facilitated group discussion. In-person live and online pre-recorded presentations are welcome.
This session is …