Project News
For two days at the end of November the project team came together in Newcastle for an interdisciplinary workshop led by Professor Desmond MacNeill of the Centre for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Professor MacNeill has a long career in interdisciplinary work and the relationship of research to policy and practice. The workshop was successful in helping the team to identify the further links between work packages that have emerged in the course of the research. The workshop offered an opportunity to discuss the implications of the research for management practices at the waterside and within agencies responsible for fisheries management, and for longer term inputs to policy processes.
Chris Bear, Geoff Whitman and Michael Carrithers (2008) have submitted a paper to Environment and Planning D entitled - 'Addressivity, rhetoric and the ontological politics of quantification'
In October Liz Oughton gave a presentation to the Institute of Fisheries Management conference in Leeds in November 2008. Against the background of the Environment Agency's report on Public Attitudes to Angling that had identified the factors that would encourage non anglers into the sport she looked at the particualr characteristics of anglers and angling that the project had uncovered. In particular she drew attention to the significant social aspects of angling, highlighting that the club structure may not be attractive to those outside the sport but that nevertheless the companionship and social side of angling is reported as being very important to anglers. Click for presentation...
Sally Eden: How people use and enjoy rivers. Workshop presentation, North Yorkshire County Council’s ‘Natural Environment Day’, October 2008, Northallerton.
Sally Eden: Ethnoichthyology and other lay knowledges of water environments. Conference presentation, Association of American Geographers’ (AAG) annual meeting, April 2008, Boston, USA. In session: Water, science, humans: adventures of the hydrosocial cycle.
Chris Bear gave a paper 'Going with the flow? Place and event in anglers' understandings of rivers' at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 2008. Click for presentation...
Chris Bear, Geoff Whitman and Michael Carrithers gave a presentation- 'Making anglers count: realities, rhetoric and quantification' - Narrative, Numbers and Social Change CRESC Workshop, University of Manchester, November 2007. Click for presentation...
Liz Oughton, Jane Wheelock and Geoff Whitman gave a presentation to RELU stakeholders at the Royal Society in Edinburgh 2007. Click for presentation...
Chris Bear gave a presentation on 'Reading rivers: everyday practice and environmental knowledge in freshwater angling' at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 2007. Click for presentation...
Louise Bracken and Stuart Lane both gave papers at the 15th International Salmonid Conference held at the Baltic Centre Gateshead-Newcastle between the 17th-20th October 2006- http://www.associationofriverstrusts.org.uk/salmonid_conf/index.htm
Louise's paper was entitled, 'Effects of silt transfer on salmonids and conservation species'.
Stuart's paper, which he gave jointly with Lucy Dugdale, was entitled, 'Catchment scale structuring of Atlantic salmon and brown trout juvenille populations by topographically controlled hydrological connectivity'.
Geoff Whitman also presented a poster at this conference outlining the Angling in the Rural Environment project.