Overview
Join us for your MPhil or PhD in Rural Studies. You'll be supervised and supported by our research-active academic staff.
Areas of research include:
- impact and implications of ‘local-global’ processes and relationships for rural areas
- characteristics and performance of rural businesses and households
- rural governance
- demographic ageing and social change
- living with environmental change
Opportunities are available for postgraduate research in the following areas:
- Multifunctional land use and the evolving role of small farms
- Land use and food security
- The management and governance of natural resources
- Agri-environment policy
- Environmental valuation and choice modelling
- Access to land for outdoor recreation and leisure
- Protected areas management
- Relationship between rural development policy and communities in a changing political landscape
- Rural policies and the role of communities in policy development
- Neo-endogenous or networked rural development
- Rural housing and trends in counter-urbanisation
- Community asset management
- Rural partnerships and stakeholder relationships
- Community resilience
- Perceptions of rurality
- Rural social change
- The role of rural women
- The needs of a changing rural community
- Wellbeing and quality of life
- Rural social capital
- Social exclusion and rural poverty
- Changing perceptions of farming
- Rural enterprise and its economic contribution
- Innovation and entrepreneurialism
- Networks and knowledge exchange
- The nature and needs of rural enterprise
- Technological adoption and innovation in agriculture
- Linkages between urban and rural economies
- Business collaboration and networking
- Expertise and knowledge exchange
- Social and community enterprise
- The green economy
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