Jennifer Boddy
Jennifer's PhD project title is Rural pubs, provenance, and ‘polycrisis’: A multi-level governance perspective on the adaptive resilience of ‘the local’. Read more about Jennifer's research.
About Jennifer
I'm a long-term resident of Geography at Newcastle University, since beginning my BA in 2018 and acting as a teaching assistant from 2022.
Since my undergraduate dissertation through to my current doctoral thesis, I've been investigating the UK’s pub and beer industry and the exciting community spirit it represents.
Project description
The project explores and evaluates the enabling and constraining factors influencing the adaptability and resilience of rural pubs and their supply chains as they respond to complex contemporary crises. It does so by considering the following:
- How resilience and success is defined in contested ways by actors across and between geographies
- The social and economic priorities reflected in the entrepreneurial activities undertaken by publicans
- The enabling and constraining factors imbued by formal and informal institutions
Research interests
Over the years, I have developed an interest in ‘more-than-capitalist’ ways of viewing the economy by considering the role of communities and local lifestyles in the orientation of rural entrepreneurial activities.
Through my current research, I intend to pay attention to socioeconomic and feminist themes in Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) by considering the diversity of enterprise, values-driven entrepreneurship, and wellbeing-oriented perspectives on economic crisis.
Publications
- Boddy, J. (2023) Pubs, ‘permacrisis’, and the periphery: adapting to crisis in rural Northumberland, National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise [Online] Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2023/april/pubs-pints-and-permacrisis-part-1-narrating-uncertainty-in-rural-northumberland/
- Boddy, J. (2023) Pubs, pints and ‘permacrisis’ - part 2: reorientation toward collective rural resilience, National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise [Online] Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2023/may/pubs-pints-and-permacrisis-part-2-reorientation-toward-collective-rural-resilience/
Presentations
RGS IBG 2022, (Re)building Architectures of Care: Learning from changing space of learning and teaching
Teaching
Academic qualifications, memberships and achievements
- BA Geography, Newcastle University
- MA Human Geography Research, Newcastle University
Contact and further information
E-mail: j.boddy@newcastle.ac.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferboddy