| Current and Recent Research
Researcher for the University of Exeter: Farmer attitudes to vaccination of badgers against bovine tuberculosis. Started March 2012.
Background study for James Ravilious: Reflecting the Rural (see 'Other Activities' tab), with Liz Nicol and Claire Kelly, Plymouth University. Interviews with a purposively selected sample to test reactions to and interpretations of photographs of rural North Devon taken between 1972 and 1989. Funded by the Seale-Hayne Educational Trust.
Principal
Investigator for New Sources of Employment to Promote the
Wealth-Generating Capacity of Rural Communities (RuralJobs). European
Commission Framework 7 Small Collaborative Project with partners in
Hungary, Spain, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, LIthuania. Started
February 2008, completed November 2010. UoP budget €217,000.
Knowledge Transfer
Partnership: Enable Milk Link Ltd to enhance predictions of milk
supply, improve planning and augment support to farmer members promoting
membership benefits and developing innovative forecasting techniques.
With Dr Sanzidur Rahman and Arhaud Haye (researcher). £115,000.
Completed August 2008.
Research project: Quantitative assessment
of the further market opportunity among Cornwall based farmers, to
understand their awareness and business aspirations in regard to
broadband technology, and overall to assess how ready, willing and able
they are to take up broadband and make use of the ‘actnow’ service.
With the Socio-Economic Research and Intelligence Observatory,
University of Plymouth, for Actnow. Completed summer 2007 (see
www.actnowcornwall.co.uk/FarmsResearchPressReleaseJuly2007.asp).
Research
project: The role of the information intermediary in rural access to
online services. Pilot study funded by Seale-Hayne Educational Trust.
With Susie Bissell (researcher). Completed 2007.
Research
project: Rural broadband: a study of implementation of broadband
solutions for rural SME and micro-businesses. 2-year project funded by
Broadband4Devon consortium. With Dr Steve Childe (Exeter University)
and Dr Tom Rogers (researcher). Completed December 2006. |
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