Events will be taking place across the UK during Festival of Social Science/National Science and Engineering Week 2009. 

Contributions from the Relu programme will include:

Land for the Future Monday 9 March A one-day seminar in Exeter, contact Michael Winter d.m.winter@exeter.ac.uk for details and booking

Rural Land Use in the North of England: Future Challenges
Thursday 12 March A one-day seminar in partnership with the Northern Rural Network, in York.  Contact Nikki Parker Nikki.Parker@ncl.ac.uk for details and booking.

How will bioenergy crops affect our landscapes?
Tuesday 10 March
Short talks, interactive displays, posters and handouts at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, on the positive and negative implications of planting more biomass crops in the landscape. 
Contact Angela Karp Angela.Karp@bbsrc.ac.uk for information.

Making deer choices: public preferences for deer management
Tuesday 10 March (Monmouth) and Thursday 12 March (Ullapool)
Researchers will be using choice experiments to investigate public views about managing the deer population.
Contact Piran White PCLW1@york.ac.uk for information.

Food for the future - what is the role of organics?
Friday 13 March at the universities of Sussex, Cambridge and Leeds.
Contact Sigrid Stagl s.stagl@sussex.ac.uk for information

Food bugs me to death
Events about microbiological hazards in the food chain at Rhyl High School, Glan-y-Môr Secondary School in Pwllheli, Sir Hugh Owen Secondary School, Caernarfon and Creuddyn Secondary School,Llandudno, contact Paul Cross afs202@bangor.ac.uk for information

Political Pathogen
A short film exploring diverse views on the risk of E coli O157 will be shown in schools and community venues contact Colette Jones c.d.jones@abdn.ac.uk for information. Report