RGRG AGM 2020 and associated events

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Format of the day:

9.50 – 10am     Registration

10.00 am          Welcome from the Chair

10.05 am          PGR/ECR Presentations

11.15 am          Covid 19 and research: digital shorts and discussion session

12am                Break for lunch

1pm-2.30pm   AGM

2.30pm – 4pm Virtual social

Running order and presentations for the PGR/ECR mini symposium are:

  1. The latest driving force of rural gentrification? How Digital Marketing is Influencing Processes of Rural Gentrification in England – Niamh McHugh, University of Leicester.
  1. Toward an integrative framework for the governance of sustainable agricultural innovation – ​Auvikki de Boon, University of Reading.
  1. ‘Agro-ecology and organic agriculture as a counterforce to (super-) productivist farming in Brazil: innovative strategies in a time of crisis‘  –  Dr Felipe da Silva Machado (University of Plymouth)
  1. Politics and the Rural: (New) Spaces for Contentious Politics beyond the Urban – Viktoria Noka (University of Glasgow)

If you are interested in applying to be on the committee please send a short abstract (no more than 150 words) to meganpalmerabbs@btinternet.com supporting your application and if possible a nominee and seconder.