Dr Amy Proctor
Research Associate

  • Email: amy.proctor@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8506
  • Address: Centre for Rural Economy
    School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development,
    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle Upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU

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