Presentations
Day 1
Introduction
The RELU Programme and its Unfolding Research Agenda, Philip Lowe, Director, RELU
Parallel Session 1
Relative Roles of Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, Led by Liz Oughton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Scoping the Training Agenda for RELU, Led by Laura Meagher, Technology Development Group (Workshop Report)
Pursuing the Public Interface, Led by Tom MacMillan, Food Ethics Council
Relu-Risk: Involving Stakeholders in the Management of Food Chain Risks in the Rural Economy, Simon French, Manchester Business School
Pursuing the Public Interface: Resource Pack and Conference Report
Thematic Concept for Sustainability Science
Chair: Introduction, Malcolm Eames, Sustainable Development Research Network
Cycles and Chains, Mark Tatchell, Warwick University
Consumer Sovereignty and Healthy Eating: Dilemmas for Research and Policy, Bruce Traill, Reading University
Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies, Sarah Whatmore, University of Oxford
Collaborative Resource Management, Justin Irvine, Macaulay Institute
Systematically Assessing Risk in the Farming Landscape, David Oliver, Lancaster University
Day 2
Perspectives on Knowledge Exchange
Chair: Introduction, Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive HEFCE and chair of RELU Strategic Advisory Committee
Knowledge Exchange and RELU, Jeremy Phillipson, Assistant Director, RELU
Science in the Round for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities, Tim O’Riordan, Emeritus Professor
University of East Anglia
Commercialising Science and Technology, Peter Lillford, National Non-Food Crop Centre, York
The Rural Knowledge Supply Chain, Eric Howell, National Rural Knowledge Exchange
Parallel Session 2
A) Rural Economy
Chair: Donna Easterlow, SEERAD
Rural Economy Development
Sharing Information: A National Rural Taxonomy, Eric Howell, National Rural Knowledge Exchange
Developing Human Capital to Strengthen Rural Economies: Reflecting on the Northern Rural Network,
Neil Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
B) Land and Water Management
Chair: John Holmes, University of Oxford
Research and Policy for Land Management Advice
Research and Policy for Land Management Advice, Alan Hooper, Rural Development Service
Setting Research Priorities for Sustainable Food and Farming, Les Firbank, Lancaster Environment Centre
C) Public Policy
Chair: Faith Culshaw, NERC
Inputting into Government Consultations
Getting Your Voice Heard in Government, Wyn Grant, Warwick University
D) Commercialisation
Chair: Tony Fentem, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
Mechanisms of Commercialisation
Making LINKS Work for RELU, Chris Lea, Welsh Assembly
Mechanisms of Commercialisation, Mike Attenborough, Meat and Livestock Commission
Parallel Session 3
A) Rural Economy
Chair: Donna Easterlow, SEERAD
Science for Regional Development and Economic Policy
Research for Regional and Rural Development: a Practitioner’s Perspective, Tom Warburton, One North East
Research for Regional and Rural Development: a Researcher’s Perspective, Mike Winter, University of Exeter
B) Land and Water Management
Chair: John Holmes, University of Oxford
Collaborative Knowledge Production
Collaborative Knowledge Production in Water and Land Management, John Colvin, Environment Agency
Stakeholders and Relationships in Knowledge Production: Researchers, Brokers and Farmers, Fergus Lyon, Middlesex University
C) Public Policy
Chair: Faith Culshaw, NERC
Constructing Evidence for Public Policy
Agricultural Change and Environment Observatory Programme, Helen Dunn, Defra
Respondents: Andrew Lovett, University of East Anglia;
Paul Armsworth, University of Sheffield
D) Commercialisation
Chair: Tony Fentem, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
Examples of Commercialisation
Turning Research into Business, Anne Glover, Remedios and University of Aberdeen
Commercialising Scientific Research for Growers, John Handford, Farm Advisory Service Team Ltd.
Mechanisms for Knowledge Exchange within RELU:
Feedback from Parallel Sessions 2 and 3
Chair: Philip Lowe, Director, RELU
Donna Easterlow, SEERAD
John Holmes, University of Oxford
Faith Culshaw, NERC
Jimmy Young, University of Stirling
Keynote Address
The Cultivation of Knowledge, Michael Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Day 3
Parallel Session 4
Food Chain Localisation
Chair: Sarah Mukherjee, Environment Correspondent, BBC
Keynote address: The Validity of Food Miles as an Indicator of Sustainable Development, Paul Watkiss, AEA Technology Environment
Keynote address: Food Ethics: It’s More than the Mileage, Gareth Edwards-Jones, University of Wales, Bangor
Respondent: Geoff Tansey, Freelance writer and consultant
Keynote address: Practice and Outcome in Localizing Food Chains, Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University
Keynote address: Paradoxes of Place in European Food Chains, Henry Buller, Exeter University
Respondent: Frances Rowe, One North East Regional Development Agency
Session Respondent: Jennifer Allen, Portland State University
Can EU Directives be implemented? Will CAP Reform help?
Chair: Susan Steer, Countryside Policy Panel, RICS
Keynote address: Evaluating EU Agri-Environment Policy: Projects and Goals of the European Environment Agency, Jan Erik Petersen, European Environment Agency
Farmer Decision Making
Improving the Success of Agri-Environment Initiatives, James Bullock, CEH Dorset
Evaluating the Options for Combining Economically, Socially and Ecologically
Sustainable Agriculture, Bill Sutherland, University of East Anglia
A Landscape-scale Analysis of the Sustainability of the Hill Farming Economy and Impact of Farm Production Decisions on Upland Landscapes and Biodiversity, Paul Armsworth, University of Sheffield
Keynote address: Farmers’ Logic and the Implementation of EU Agri-environmental Policy, Bettina Bock, Wageningen University
Sustainable Land and Water Use
Sustainable Uplands: Managing Uncertainty in Dynamic Socio-Environmental Systems, Klaus Hubacek and Mark Reed, University of Leeds
Social, Economic and Environmental Implications of Increasing Rural Land Use Under Energy Crops, Angela Karp, Rothamsted Research
Integrated Land and Water Management in Floodplains, Joe Morris, Cranfield University
Keynote address: Dialogue for Future Water Management - A New Perspective on Sustainable Water Management in Sweden, Anna Jöburn, Swedish Environment Institute
Summing Up
Chair: Philip Lowe, Director, RELU
Sarah Mukherjee, Environment Correspondent, BBC
Susan Steer, Countryside Policy Panel, RICS