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Innes, A. and Sherlock, K. (in press) Rural Communities in Voices from the Margins, London, Jessica Kingsley Press.
 
Vergunst, P. (in press) Whose socialisation? Exploring the social interaction between migrants and communities-of-place in rural areas. Population, Space and Place
 
Watts, D., Leat, P. and Revoredo-Giha, C. (in press) Local food activity in Scotland: empirical evidence and research agenda. Regional Studies.
 
Ilbery, B., Maye, D., Watts, D. and Holloway, L. (in press) Property matters: agricultural restructuring and changing landlord-tenant relationships in England. Geoforum.
 
Ilbery, B., Watts, D., Little, J., Gilg, A. and Simpson, S. (in press) Attitudes of food entrepreneurs towards two grant schemes under the first England Rural Development Programme, 2000-2006 Land Use Policy.
 
Edwards, P., Farrington, J., Mellish, C., Philip, L., Chorley, A., Heilkema, F., Pignotti, E., Reid, R., Polhill, G., and Gotts, N. (2009) “e-Social Science and Evidence-Based Policy Assessment: Challenges and Solutions. Social Science Computer Review,27, 4, 553-568.
 
Watts, D., Ilbery, B., Maye, D. and Holloway, L. (2009) Implementing Pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy in England: Geographies of the Rural Enterprise Scheme and Processing and Marketing Grant. Land Use Policy 26(3), 683-694 (available online).
 
Maye, D., Ilbery, B. and Watts, D. (2009) Farm diversification, tenancy and CAP reform: Results from a survey of tenant farmers in England Journal of Rural Studies 25, 333-342.
 
Little, J., Ilbery, B. and Watts, D. (2009) Gender, consumption and the relocalisation of food: a research agenda Sociologia Ruralis 49(3), 201-217.
 
Gilbert, A., Philip, L. J. & Shucksmith, M. (2008) Rich and Poor in the Countryside in Lowe and Speakman (eds) The Ageing Countryside: the Growing Older Population in Rural England, Age Concern England, London.
 
T. Ingold and J. Vergunst (eds.) (2008) Ways of Walking. Ethnography and Practice on Foot. Aldershot: Ashgate.
 
Vergunst, P. (2008) Social integration: re-socialisation and symbolic boundaries in Dutch rural neighbourhoods. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34: 917-934
 
Watts, D., Ilbery, B. and Maye, D. (2008) Making re-connections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision. In R. Munton (ed) The Rural: critical essays in human geography. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 165-183. Part of the series, J. Agnew (ed) Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place
 
Farrington, J., Kuhlman, T., Rothman, D., Imrichova, Z., Reid, L. & Konkoly, E. (2007) Reflections on Social and Economic Indicators for Land Use Change in Helming & Perez-Soba (eds) Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in Europeam Regions
 
Ilbery, B., Maye, D., Watts, D. & Holloway, L. (2007) Single Farm Payments, Diversification and Tenant Farming in England in Clout (ed) Contemporary Rural Geographies. Land, property and Resources in Britain: Essays in Honour of Richard Munton, London, Routledge
 

Philip LJ and Gilbert A (2007) ‘Exploring the income dynamics of older people in rural Britain’ Regional Studies. 41(6) 735-746.

 
Philip LJ, Chorley A, Farrington J and Edwards P (2007) Data provenance, Evidence-Based Policy Assessment, and e-Social Science.  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on E-Social Science, University of Michigan, October 2007
 
Watts, D., Ilbery, B. & Jones, G. (2007) Networking Practices among 'Alternative' Food Producers in England's West Midlands region in Maye, Holloway & Kneafsey (eds) Constructing Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice, Oxford, Elsevier.
 
Ilbery, B., Watts, D., Simpson, S., Gilg, A. & Little, J. (2006) Mapping Local oods: Evidence from Two English Regions, British Food Journal 108(3)
 
Farmer, J., West, C., Whyte, B. & MacLean, M. (2005) Primary Healthcare Teams as Adaptive Organisations: Exploring and Explaining Work Variation Using Case Studies in Rural and Urban Scotland, Health Services Management Research, Royal Society of Medicine Press.
 
Roberts, D. (2005) The Role of Households Sustainaing Rural Economies: a Structural Path Analysis, European Review of Agricultural Economics 32(3).
 
Shucksmith, M., Thomson, K. J. & Roberts, D. (2005) The CAP and the Regions: the Territorial Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy, CABI Publishing.
 
Watts, D., Ilbery. B. & Maye, D. (2005) Making re-connections in agro-food geography: Alternative Sysems of Food Provision, Progress in Human Geography 29(1).
 
Farrington, J., Shaw, J., Leedal, M., Maclean, M., Halden, D., Richardson, T. & Bristow, G. (2004) Settlements, Services and Access: the Development of Policies to promote Accessibility in Rural Area in Great Britain, Final Report Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government Press.
 
Ilbery, B. & Watts, D. (2004) Agricultural Restructuring in the West Midlands Region 1950-2000, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 165.
 
Farmer, J., Lauder, W., Richards, H. & Sharkey, S. (2003) Dr John has gone: assessing Helath Professionals' Contribution to Remote Rural Community Sustainability, Social Science and Medicine
 
Gelan, A. (2003) Communting, Migration and Rural Development in Post & David (eds) Integrative Modelling of Biophysical, Social and Economic Systems for Resource Management Solutions - Proceedings of MODSIM 2003 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.
 
Philip, L. J., Gilbert, A., Mauthner, N. & E. Phimister (2003) Scoping Study of Older People in Rural Scotland, Edinburgh, Scottish Executive Central Research Unit.
 
Philip, L. J. & Shucksmith, D. M. (2003) Conceptualising Social Exclusion in Rural Britain, European Planning Studies 11(4)
 
Roberts, D. & Thomson, K. J. (2003) Structural Change in Peripheral Rural Area: the Case of the Western Isles 1998/89-1997, Regional Studies 47(1).
 
Sherlock, K., Innes, A. and Cox, S. (2003) Voices from the margins? Carers' Experiences of Service Provision in Rural Scotland, Signpost 8(2).
 
Slee, R. B., Roberts, D. & Evans, R. (2004) Forestry in the Rural Economy: a New Approach to Assessing the Impact of Forestry on Rural Development, Forestry 77(5).
 
MacKinnon, D. (2002) Rural Governance and Local Involvement: Assessing State-Community Relations in the Scottish Highlands, Journal of Rural Studies 18.
 

Copus, A.K. & MacLeod, M. (2001). Indicators of Rural Wellbeing in Roberts, L. and Hall, D. (eds) Rural Tourism and Recreation: Ptinciples to Practice. CABI Publishing, 31-34.

 
 

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