Newcastle University

Travel Scholarship Award

Karen Scott has been awarded a travel scholarship of £1800 from the Queen's University (Belfast) Internationalization Fund as part of the Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network (TARRN). She will travel to Penn State University and Cornell University in October 2013 to develop research collaborations with colleagues there on the theme of 'The Good Life'.

published on: 13th June 2013

NISR Award - Menelaos Gkartzios

CRE Lecturer Menelaos Gkartzios has been awarded £1,100 from the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal for research on rural resilience to be undertaken whilst on a month’s visit to the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. A report on the concept of resilience and its use to the Institute and the University will be published in due course.

published on: 11th June 2013

Rural growth is top of agenda

On the 17th June the Northern Rural Network is joining forces with the North East Rural Growth Network and the North East Farming and Rural Affairs Forum to take a closer look at The Rural Economic Growth Agenda in the North East at Hexham Mart.  There will be opportunities to learn more about next steps following the North East Independent Economic Review and the Rural Growth Network Programme.  For more information visit the NRN website or contact northern@ncl.ac.uk.

published on: 21st May 2013