Research Projects

Current and Ongoing

• Diverseafood
  Project Leader(s): Luca Panzone
  Project Dates: 2018 - 2021
• Environmental Land Management Test & Trial: CURLEW (Conserving Upland Rural Landscapes Environment & Wildlife) Contracts
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: November 2019 – June 2021
• FIELD – Farm-level Interdisciplinary approaches to Endemic Livestock Disease
  Project Leader(s): Professor Abigail Woods, University of Lincoln
  Project Dates: September 2018 – August 2022
• Resilient Dairy Landscapes
  Project Leader(s): Mark Reed
  Project Dates: 2018-2022
• Rural England: Local Perspectives on Community and Economy
  Project Leader(s): Paul Cowie
  Project Dates: February 2020 – October 2021
• RuralGrowth
  Project Leader(s): Local Government of Nagykanizsa, Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2016 - 2022
• Strength2Food
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2016 - 2021
• SUPER-G: Sustainable Permanent Grassland Systems and Policies
  Project Leader(s): Project Coordinator: Paul Newell Price (ADAS); Work Package 4 Leader: Professor Lynn Frewer (Newcastle University).
  Project Dates: June 2018 – June 2023
• VALUMICS "Understanding food value chains and network dynamics"
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2017 - 2021

2020

• SusPigSys
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2017 - 2020
• Feed-a-gene
  Project Leader(s): Professor Ilias Kyriazakis
  Project Dates: March 2015 - February 2020
• Rural Enterprise UK (REUK)
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson (CRE) and Matthew Gorton (NUBS)
  Project Dates: 2015 - 2020

2019

• FOODINTEGRITY
  Project Leader(s): Paul Brereton, Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) project Co-ordinator. Professor Lynn Frewer, WP7 Leader
  Project Dates: January 2014 - January 2019

2018

• Brexit: how might UK agriculture survive or thrive?
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: April 2017 - September 2018
• Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
  Project Dates: 2016 - 2018
• PROHEALTH – Sustainable pig and poultry production: WP7: Socioeconomic evaluation of controls of production diseases
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer
  Project Dates: 2013 - 2018
• Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe
  Project Leader(s): Mark Reed
  Project Dates: 2015 - 2018
• Understanding ecosystem stocks and tipping points in UK blanket peatlands
  Project Leader(s): Mark Reed
  Project Dates: 2016 - 2018

2017

• The energy climate food security NEXUS: Developing a multi stakeholder deliberative governance model in Northern Ireland
  Project Leader(s): Sally Shortall
  Project Dates: September 2016 - September 2017
• Voices of veterinary experience
  Project Leader(s): Mark Reed
  Project Dates: 2016 - 2017
• Women in farming and the agricultural sector
  Project Leader(s): Sally Shortall
  Project Dates: May 2016 - March 2017

2016

• Community-led rural landscape evaluation in Chile
  Project Leader(s): Menelaos Gkartzios
  Project Dates: 2015-2016
• Consumer heuristics and biases in the identification of sustainable food
  Project Leader(s): Luca Panzone
  Project Dates: 2014 - 2016
• Endogenous Rural Development in Japan and the UK
  Project Leader(s): Tokumi Odagiri, Meiji University, Japan
  Project Dates: 2013-2016
• FP7 Collab4Safety: Towards sustainable global food safety collaboration
  Project Leader(s): Dr Hans Marvin and Professor Lynn Frewer
  Project Dates: 2013 -2016
• Policy and Practice for Environmental Change
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
  Project Dates: 2012 - 2016
• The Efficiency of Small Farms
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2016

2015

• Compete
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2012 - 2015
• Food4Me: “Personalised Nutrition: An integrated analysis of opportunities and challenges”
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer (WP 2)
  Project Dates: 2011 - 2015
• KEEENZ
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2014 - 2015
• The Politics of Wellbeing
  Project Leader(s): Karen Scott
  Project Dates: 2013 - 2015

2014

• BROWSE
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer (WP4)
  Project Dates: 2011 - 2014
• 'Going Rural': Counter-urbanisation in times of crisis
  Project Leader(s): Menelaos Gkartzios
  Project Dates: 2013 - 2014
• Landbridge: A knowledge exchange network for rural professionals
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
  Project Dates: 2012 - 2014
• Northumbrian Exchanges: Creative Community Engagement in Rural Northumberland
  Project Leader(s): Eric Cross
  Project Dates: 2013 - 2014
• PERARES
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer
  Project Dates: 20111 - 2014
• Unlocking Rural Innovation in the North East of England: The Role of Knowledge Institutions
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2013 - 2014

2013

• Land Use Process and Urban Sprawl (LUPUS)
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2011 - 2013
• Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: 2003 - 2013
• North East Rural Growth Network : Applied Research Project
  Project Leader(s): Nicola Thompson
  Project Dates: 2013 (February to December)

2012

• Contamination of food with biological agents: an integrated risk analysis and risk communication approach
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer
  Project Dates: 2009 - 2012
• PEGASUS ‘Public Perception of Genetically modified Animals - Science, Utility and Society’
  Project Leader(s): Lynn Frewer (WP 3)
  Project Dates: 2011 - 2012
• SCOPE
  Project Leader(s): David Harvey
  Project Dates: 2010 - 2012

2011

• Boundary Organisational Theory and Collaborative Research (BOTACC)
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Franks
  Project Dates: 2010 - 2011
• Study on Employment, Growth and Innovation in Rural Areas
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2010 - 2011
• PRIMA: Prototypical Policy Impacts on Multifunctional Activities in rural municipalities
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2011
• Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2011

2010

• EconWelfare: Good animal welfare in a socio-economic context
  Project Leader(s): Carmen Hubbard
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2010
• NRN Phase III
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2010
• Rural Businesses and Science City (North East)
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2009 - 2010

Pre 2010

• A Roadmap for the Sustainable Development Fund (SDF)
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2006 (3 months)
• Agri-food Industry Restructuring in Ukraine and Moldova (AFIRUM)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2000 - 2003
• An Economic Evaluation of the Regional Food Strategy
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2006
• Angling in the Rural Environment
  Project Leader(s): Elizabeth Oughton
  Project Dates: 2006 - 2009
• Animal Welfare in the Product Quality Chain
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2007
• City Regions and Rural Areas in North East England
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2005 (5 months)
• Commuting in Berwick upon Tweed
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2007 - 2008 (3 months)
• Deliberating the Environment
  Project Leader(s): Derek Bell
  Project Dates: 2003 - 2004
• The Nature and Implications of Demographic Ageing for Peripheral Coastal Areas in the UK
  Project Leader(s): Chris Ray
  Project Dates: 2006 (4 months)
• Eat the View: Phases I and II
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2002 (10 months)
• Endogenous Development and Hungary’s Accession to the EU
  Project Leader(s): Christopher Ray
  Project Dates: 2001
• Environmental Action and the Policy Process: The Case of CPRE
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: January - December 2000
• Evaluation of New Writing North's Creative Centres Programme
  Project Leader(s): Chris Ray
  Project Dates: 2005 - 2006 (15 months)
• Evaluation of the Project Management Function for the Development of the North East Rural Estates Framework
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2006 - 2007
• Foresight Analysis for Rural areas Of Europe (FARO)
  Project Leader(s): Hilary Talbot
  Project Dates: 2007 - 2009
• Gendered Bodies: Personnel Policies and the Culture of the British Army
  Project Leader(s): Rachel Woodward
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2002 (11 months)
• Integrated Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas (IDARA)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2000 - 2003
• The Impact of Decoupling and Modulation in the Enlarged Union: a Sectoral and Farm Level Assessment (IDEMA)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gortall
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2006
• The East of England Development Agency's Contribution to Improving Accessibility of Services for Rural Communities
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2006 (3 months)
• Interdisciplinary science on diffuse pollution
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2005 (11 months)
• Integrated Tools to Design and Implement Agro Environmental Schemes (ITAES)
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2007
• Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies
  Project Leader(s): Prof Sarah Whatmore (Oxford) and Prof Stuart Lane (Durham)
  Project Dates: 2006 - 2009
• Learning from the Foot and Mouth Crisis
  Project Leader(s): Katy Bennett
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2002
• Manufacturing Meaning Along the Food Commodity Chain
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2003 - 2007
• Modelling of the EU's LEADER II transnational co-operation
  Project Leader(s): Chris Ray
  Project Dates: 2005 - 2006 (18 months)
• New Rural Economy (NREC) - Phase I
  Project Leader(s): Katy Bennett
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2004
• New Rural Economy (NREC) - Phase II
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2007
• North East Rural Affairs Forum Constituency Database Project (Phase I)
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2006
• Northumberland Rural Strategy
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: 2002 - 2003 (6 months)
• Planning for the Ageing Countryside in Britain and Japan
  Project Leader(s): Kayo Murakami
  Project Dates: 2006 - 2007
• Prelude - Land Use Scenarios for Europe
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2005
• Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative - Supplier Capacity Study
  Project Leader(s): Michael Bourlakis
  Project Dates: 2006 (4 months)
• Quality Low Input Food Project
  Project Leader(s): Elizabeth Oughton
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2009
• Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) Network Market Research and Stakeholder Engagement Project
  Project Leader(s): Nicola Thompson
  Project Dates: 2008 (4 months)
• Regional Development Agencies and Rural Development
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2001 (July - August)
• Regional Supply Chains Mapping Study
  Project Leader(s): Michael Bourlakis (project led by ADAS Consulting)
  Project Dates: 2005 (7 months)
• Responding to change: An investigation into the processes of rural place-making in the face of ageing
  Project Leader(s): Kayo Murakami
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2009
• Review of Northumberland Rural Voices Network
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2005 (4 months)
• Review of the Economics of Food Safety and Food Standards
  Project Leader(s): Michael Bourlakis
  Project Dates: 2003 (4 months)
• Rural Areas: Contributing to Regional Competitiveness
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2005 (4 months)
• Rural Businesses and the Environment
  Project Leader(s): Marian Raley
  Project Dates: 2007 (2 months)
• Rural Development: Strategic Options for Delivery
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2003 (5 months)
• Rural Entrepreneurs – Chances and Problems of the Development of a New Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas
  Project Leader(s):
  Project Dates: 1998 - 2000 (18 months)
• Rural Excellence Mentoring Programme - Evaluation of Phase I
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2005 (10 months)
• Rural Excellence Mentoring Programme - Evaluation of Phase II
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2005 - 2007
• Rural Futures - Scenario Creation and Back-casting
  Project Leader(s): Christopher Ray
  Project Dates: 2003 - 2004 (11 months)
• Rural Input to the Regional Economic Strategy Review 2005
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2005 (3 months)
• Rural Microbusinesses and the Local Economy: A Case Study Approach
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
  Project Dates: 2000 - 2001
• Structural Change in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods (SCARLED)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2007 - 2009
• System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: Linking European Science and Society (SEAMLESS)
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2005 - 2008
• Supporting the International Development of the CIS Agricultural Sector (SIDCISA)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2005 - 2007
• Social Capital on Rum and the Small Isles
  Project Leader(s): Jane Atterton
  Project Dates: 2007 (2 months)
• Study to Inform the Mainstreaming of Business Support in the Rural North East
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2006 (2 months)
• Sustaining Living Uplands: the Role of the Northumberland National Park Authority in Rural Development
  Project Leader(s): Terry Carroll
  Project Dates: 2001
• Swaledale Sheep Study
  Project Leader(s): Michael Bourlakis
  Project Dates: 2003 (6 months)
• The Aftermath of Foot and Mouth Disease: Research Programme for Cumbria and the Northern Fells
  Project Leader(s): Johanne Allinson
  Project Dates: 2001
• The Changing Role of Farms and Agricultural Institutions: A Collaborative Research Project in Germany and the UK
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2003
• The Consequences of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic for the Rural Economy of Northumberland
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2002
• The Dialects of the North of England
  Project Leader(s): Christopher Ray
  Project Dates: 2000
• The Future of Rural Land Use
  Project Leader(s): Neil Ward
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2002 (5 months)
• The Impact of the Foot and Mouth Crisis on Rural Firms: A Survey of Microbusinesses in the North East of England
  Project Leader(s): Katy Bennett
  Project Dates: 2001
• The Nature of Rural Development - Europe's Rural Futures (Phase II)
  Project Leader(s): Philip Lowe
  Project Dates: 2001 - 2003
• TIPTAP: Territorial Impact Package for Transport and Agricultural Policies
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod
  Project Dates: 2008 - 2009
• Water Strategies and Drought Alleviation in Western Balkan Agriculture (WATERWEB)
  Project Leader(s): Matthew Gorton
  Project Dates: 2004 - 2006