Latest Publications
This section highlights the Centre for Rural Economy’s latest publications, including journal articles, book chapters, reports, and briefing papers. It provides an up-to-date overview of our research outputs, showcasing recent findings and insights across agriculture, rural policy, environment, and the wider rural economy.
CRE Latest Publication
For ease of reference, the Centre’s most recent publications are presented in alphabetical order according to the surname of the first author.
Boaitey, A., Clark, B. and Tiwasing, P., 2025. Sustainability considerations and willingness to try alternative proteins: evidence from the UK. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, p.100313.
Brown D and Shucksmith M (2026) Defining Rural and Rurality, Chapter 2 on Tickamyer A, and Sachs C (eds) Research Handbook of Rural Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Clark, B., Boaitey, A. and Hubbard, C., 2025. Can ‘good’ farm animal welfare co‐exist with ‘profitable’ farming business models? Veterinary Record, 196(7), pp.280-280.
Clark, B., Kuznesof, S., Boaitey, A. and Panzone, L., 2025. Labelling and food. In Elgar Encyclopaedia of Food and Society (pp. 334-336). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Clark, B., Proctor, A., Boaitey, A., Mahon, N., Hanley, N. and Holloway, L., 2024. Animal health and welfare as a public good: what do the public think? Agriculture and Human Values, 41(4), pp.1841-1856.
Clark, B., Proctor, A., Mahon, N. and Holloway, L., 2024. Exploring farmer and advisor lameness management behaviours using the COM-B model of behaviour change. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 11, p.1258906.
Gallent, N., Gkartzios M., Scott, M. and Purves, A. (Eds.) (2025). Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press.
Gkartzios, M., Scott, M. and Gallent, N. (2025). Introducing Rural Planning: A new AESOP Thematic Group. disP - The Planning Review, 61(3), 96-98.
Glass, J. and Shucksmith, M. (2025, November) Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance. Geography Directions.
Glass, J., and Shucksmith, M. (2025) Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance. The Geographical Journal.
Lindsey, G., O’Brien, G., Clark, B. (2025) Perceived effects of Brexit and the COVID-19 epidemic on the UK lamb value chain: a qualitative interview-based study. British Food Journal.
Proctor, A. Making a mark on the farm: the marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England (tandfonline.com) Scottish Geographical Journal 2024
Proctor, A. Animal health and welfare as a public good: what do the public think? Agriculture and Human Values 2024
Proctor, A. Exploring farmer and advisor lameness management behaviours using the COM-B model of behaviour change. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 2024
Proctor, A. Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England. Sociologia Ruralis 2024
Proctor, A. Lively commodities and endemic diseases: Shifting commodity situations and nonhuman disability in cattle and sheep on UK farms. Journal of Rural Studies 2024
Scott, M., Gallent, M. and Gkartzios, M. (2026). Revisiting Abercrombie’s ‘The Preservation of Rural England’ one hundred years on. Town Planning Review [In Press]
Scott, M., Gkartzios, M. and Gallent, N. (2025). Placing “the rural” in territorial governance. In G. Cotella and U. Janin Rivolin (Eds.), Handbook of Territorial Governance (pp. 236-253). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Scott, M., Kelleher, L., Fox-Rogers, L. and Gkartzios, M. (2025). From ‘counterurbanisation as practice’ to the ‘governance of counterurbanisation’: structuring pro-rural relocations through planning regulation of housing. Journal of Rural Studies, 120, 103868.
Shortall, S. and O. Collins. 2025. Does gender matter? In Rural entrepreneurship: harvesting ideas and sewing new seeds. Bosworth, G., Chapman, P., Newbery, R., Steiner, A., and D. Webb (Eds.) Emerald Publishing.
Shortall, S., & Meredith, D. (2025) The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids. Sociologia Ruralis, 65
Shucksmith M. (2025) Scottish Rural Communities Policy Review Stage 2: England Case Study. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. Scottish Government Social Research Series.
Shortall, S. (2025) Breaking the grass ceiling: Gender inequality in agriculture Open Access Government, 47(1), pp. 430–431. doi:10.56367/oag-047-12106.
Sutherland, L.A., Bjarnason, T., Gkartzios, M. and Peeren, E. (2025). #RuralGazes: An Autoethnography of Our Ways of Seeing. In E. Peeren and T. Valdés-Olmos (Eds.), Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World (pp. 107-126). Leiden: Brill
Wicklow, D., Shortall, S. 2025. Power positions in the farm family, marrying in, and negative peer pressure: the social relations that impact agricultural practice. Agriculture and Human Values. 42: 749–763.
Ziafati Bafarasat, A., Baker, M., Cheshmehzangi, A., Goodspeed, R., Scott, M., Sharifi, A., Shirazi, M.R., Valler, D., Van Assche, K., Butt, A., Gkartzios, M., Román López, E., Stangl, P., Vitale Brovarone, E., Pull, E., Van den Broeck, P., Córdoba Hernández, R., Akbari, P., Cotella, G., Curry, K., Davern, M., Velibeyoglu, K., Nordström, P., Cruickshank, J., Paidakaki, A., Assaf, C., and Katsigianni, X. (2025). Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development. Progress in Planning, 200, 100996.