PhD students

The following PhD students are currently researching within the Centre.

NamePhD title
Hannah Chiswell Rising to the Food Security Challenge.  An Investigation into the Impact of the Food Security Agenda on Farmers and their Successors in the South West of England.  Funded by the John Oldacre Foundation.
Jill Dunglinson Farmers behaviour and climate change
Katie Garvey Future Farming: An Investigation of the Likely Impact of Higher Energy Costs on SW Agriculture using Farm Business Survey data
Suzanna Metz Church and rural society
Colin Nolden Building capacity for climate change actions in rural communities.
Lauren Parry Policy and Practice for the Sustainable Carbon Management of Moorlands
Samantha Pearce Food security and land use: the international policy challenge.
Justin Pollard The Importance of Being There: Understanding Social Capital to Evaluate Sustainability - An Ethnographic Approach
Tim Wilkinson  Perceptions of Exmoor
Cheryl Willis Harnessing Nature’s Benefits: Problems and Prospects for Recognising the Environmental Basis of Regional Tourist Economies

Recently completed PhDs

NamePhD title
Georgina Crossman The Organisational Landscape of the English Horse Industry: a Contrast with Sweden and the Netherlands
Pedro Andrés Garzon Delvaux Woodfuel supply chain integration in the South West of England; A transaction costs approach to bioenergy development
Gordon Morris People helping people - An assessment of the market towns and related initiatives and the extent to which they addressed rural poverty
Tom Richardson
(Tremough)
Science and the Politics of Sustainability: An analysis of four research-council funded bioenergy projects.