Newcastle University

Introduction

I am currently employed on an ESRC-funded project entitled ‘Science in the Field: Understanding the changing role of expertise in the rural economy’. This is a 3 year project (2008-2011) exploring the current and potential role of field-level advisers as knowledge brokers between scientific research and land management practice. Working with Jeremy Phillipson, Andrew Donaldson and Philip Lowe, we have explored how the knowledge and expertise of three different groups of knowledge brokers involved in rural land management (applied ecologists, rural vets and surveyors/land agents) is constructed and disseminated.

In addition to the Science in the Field project, I also work for the Director’s Office of the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU) and have been involved in one particular stream of work helping to develop SIAM (Stakeholder Interaction Analysis Matrix), an analytical tool for exploring how RELU is influencing policy and practice and how stakeholders engage in research and to what effect. This work is helping us to understand the nature and impact of knowledge exchange processes and is also informing our thinking on Science in the Field.

I have led and been involved in teaching the following undergraduate modules:

ACE1007 Introduction to Rural Studies 

ACE2009 Qualitative Techniques 

ACE3017 Rural Planning, Politics and Society

• Klerkx L, Proctor A. Beyond fragmentation and disconnect: Networks for knowledge exchange in the English land management advisory system. Land Use Policy 2013, 30(1), 13-24.
• Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. Enacting field expertise and decision making in rural land management. Environment & Planning A 2012.
• Phillipson J, Lowe P, Proctor A, Ruto E. Stakeholder Engagement and Knowledge Exchange in Environmental Research. Journal of Environmental Management 2012, 95(1), 56-65.
• Phillipson J, Lowe P, Proctor A, Ruto E. Accounting for Knowledge Exchange. Journal of Environmental Management 2011.
• Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. Field expertise in rural land management. Environment and Planning A 2012, 44(7), 1696-1711.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Field-level advisors as agents of knoweldge exchange. Rural Economy & Land Use Policy & Practice Note 2011. In Preparation.
• Donaldson A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Proctor A. Science in the field? Managing land in a technological society. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2012. In Preparation.
• Lowe P, Proctor A, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. Veterinary Field Expertise. Veterinary Record 2011. In Preparation.
• Proctor A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. Veterinary field expertise: using knowledge gained on the job. Veterinary Record 2011, 169(16), 408-410.
• Enticott G, Donaldson A, Lowe P, Power M, Proctor A, Wilkinson K. The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: B 2011, 366(1573), 1955-1965.
• Phillipson J, Liddon A, Proctor A. Telling Stories: Accounting for Knowledge Exchange. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, 2010. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Briefing Paper 10.
• Mangan J, Proctor A, Gibbs D. External influences on the Humber Estuary ports, the largest concentration of activity in the UK. In: Notteboom, T; Ducret, C; de Langen, P, ed. Ports in Proximity: Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, pp.225-233.
• Gibbs D, Deutz P, Proctor A. Industrial Ecology and Eco-industrial Development: A Potential Paradigm for Local and Regional Development?. Regional Studies 2005, 39(2), 171-183.
• Phillipson J, Proctor A, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Veterinary Field Expertise and Knowledge Exchange. In: Henry, C, ed. Veterinary Business & Enterprise. Elsevier, 2013. Submitted.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Field Advisers as Agents of Knowledge Exchange. University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, 2011. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Policy and Practice Note Series 30.