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Seminars
 

IRR runs regular lunchtime research seminars. These are held on Wednesdays between 1 and 2 pm. The venue is room 117 in St Mary's building, Elphinstone Road, Old Aberdeen (12 on the map). All are welcome.

An access guide for St Mary's building can be found here. If you have additional access requirements, please let us know.

For further information on our seminars, including slides where available, please see below.

Regrettably, the seminar scheduled for 28 April has fallen victim to Eyjafjallajökull. Our speaker, Dr Lorna Philip, has still not made it back to Aberdeen. Hopefully, we will be able to reschedule Lorna’s seminar for the autumn.
 
 
Lunchtime Seminars Spring 2010
   

24 February

 

 

Dr Aylwin Pillai
School of Law, University of Aberdeen
'Sustainable rural communities: participation in the community right to buy'
Seminar slides
   

10 March

 

 

Professor Jo Little
School of Geography, University of Exeter
'Nature and the Rural Body: the disciplinary practices of the spa’
Abstract
Seminar slides
   

24 March

 

 

Dr James Kirwan
Countryside and Community Research Institute,
University of Gloucestershire
'Ecological Embeddedness: developing the concept within the
context of alternative food networks in the UK'
   

28 April

CANCELLED
(27 April)

 

Dr Lorna Philip
Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen
'Pre-Retirement Transition Migration in the Celtic Fringe'
Regrettably, Dr Philip has still not made it back to Aberdeen. Hopefully, we will be able to reschedule this seminar for the autumn.
   
Lunchtime Seminars Autumn 2009
   

21 October

 

 

Dr Petra Vergunst
Institute for Rural Research, University of Aberdeen
'Community resilience through community ownership of land and buildings: myth or reality?'
Seminar slides
   

4 November

 

 

Dr Lorna Philip
Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen
'Pre-retirement transition migration in the Celtic Fringe'
Please note: this seminar will now take place on 28 April.

   

18 November

 

 

Dr Lee-Ann Sutherland
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
'Towards a cross-sectoral analysis of land use decision-making:  evidence from the Scottish Rural Land Use studies’
Seminar slides

   

2 December

 

 

Professor John Farrington
Rural Digital Economy Research Hub, University of Aberdeen
‘The RCUK Rural Digital Economy Research Hub: progress and opportunities’
Seminar slides
   
   
Lunchtime Seminars Spring 2009

4 February

 

 

Prof. Geoff Wilson
University of Plymouth
'Multifunctional agriculture: a transition theory perspective'
Seminar slides
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18 February

 

 

Dr Margaret Currie
Centre for Rural Health, University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute, Inverness
'Assessing bus transport policies for their accessibility benefits in rural areas'
Seminar slides

   
   

4 March

 

 

Dr Katrina Brown
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen
'Claiming rights to rural recreational space: Scottish access legislation in practice'
Seminar slides

   
   

18 March

 

 

Dr Jane Atterton
Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
'Rural businesses in the North East of England: some preliminary survey findings'

   
   

22 April

 

 

Philomena de Lima
University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute Inverness
'Addressing equality issues in rural areas - thinking out of the box'
Seminar slides

   
   

6 May

 

 

Dr Katharina Helming
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Germany
'Assessing land use changes impacts on rural development perspectives'

   
   
Seminar series autumn 2008

8 October

 

 

Dr Tom Kuhlman
Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI)
Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
'Sustainability - interdisciplinarity research in action'
Seminar slides

   
   

22 October

 

 

Philip Leat
Scottish Agricultural College, Aberdeen
'Food sustainability, consumers and supermarkets: Ticking all the boxes is really, really difficult!'
Seminar slides

   
   

5 November

 

 

Dr Colette Jones
University of Aberdeen
'Muck, money and mortality: views of E. coli O157 risk in rural areas'
Seminar slides
   
   

19 November

 

 

Dr Damian Maye
Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire
'Growing risk? Plant disease, farmer perceptions and risk management'
Seminar slides

   
   

3 December

 

 

Prof. Ken Thomson
University of Aberdeen
'How to Spend Billions: Designing and Implementing the Rural Development Regulation (RDR) in the EU and in Scotland'
Seminar slides
   

 

 
 
 
 

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University of Aberdeen
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