Staff Profile

Area of Expertise 

Amy Proctor is a Social Scientist based in the Centre for Rural Economy, within the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University. Her research interests centre upon the challenges and complexities of rural land and livestock management and the knowledge and expertise which underpin this. She is an experienced interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researcher, leading on projects which bring together novel combinations of disciplines to tackle wicked problems. Amy also has interests in understanding the nature and impact of knowledge exchange within research and how stakeholders engage in this process and to what effect.

Amy's research has focused on agricultural extension and rural expertise. She also has interests in understanding the nature and impact of knowledge exchange within research and how stakeholders engage in this process and to what effect.

Recent Research Projects and Contracts

• Defra Environmental Land Management Scheme Test and Trial: Curlew Contracts, 2019-2020 Co-Investigator
• Natural England England Peatland Strategy: Opportunities & Risks, 2019-2020 Co-Investigator
• EU Environmental Public Good from Farming through effective contract targeting (EFFECT) 2019-2023, Principal Investigator
• Wellcome Trust Farm-level Interdisciplinary approaches to endemic livestock disease (FIELD) 2018-2022 Principal Investigator
• ESRC Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) 2016-2022 Named Researcher
• Defra Sustainable Intensification Platform Project 2 2014-2017 Co-Investigator
• Linking research and the professions (with AIC, HGCA and AICC) 2014-2016 Principal Investigator
  

PhD Students

• Naomi Oakley (2020-ongoing, PT) 'Social opportunities and barriers to regenerative land management on England's upland peatlands' 
• Nur Bahiah Mohamed Harris (awarded 2019)

Amy has led and been involved in teaching and supervision for the following undergraduate modules:

ACE1040 Academic & Professional Skills

ACE2077 Sustainable Solutions

ACE2061 Site Management & Communication Skills 

ACE3099 Agri-food Business Management and Marketing Dissertation 

ACE3093 Special Study

ACE3908 Dissertation 

• Holloway L, Mahon N, Clark B, Proctor A. Living with cows, sheep and endemic disease in the North of England: Embodied care, biosocial collectivities and killability. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2022, Epub ahead of print.
• Mahon N, Clark B, Proctor A, Holloway L. Exploring farmers’ understanding of and responses to endemic animal health and welfare issues in the UK. Veterinary Record 2021, 189(10), e941.
• Barbrook-Johnson P, Proctor A, Giorgi S, Phillipson J. How do policy evaluators understand complexity?. Evaluation 2020, 26(3), 315-332.
• Reed MS, Kenter JO, Hansda R, Martin J, Curtis T, Prior S, Hay M, Saxby H, Mills L, Post J, Garrod G, Proctor A, Collins O, Guy JA, Stewart G, Whittingham M. Social barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the England Peat Strategy : Final report. Newcastle upon Tyne: Natural England and Defra, Newcastle University, 2020.
• Lowe P, Phillipson J, Proctor A, Gkartzios M. Expertise in Rural Development: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis. World Development 2019, 116, 28-37.
• Proctor A, Greaves J. Evaluating Complexity in Context using Qualitative Comparative Analysis: The Environment Agency and Waste Crime. Surrey: CECAN, 2018. Evaluation Policy and Practice Note 11.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Palmer C. What role will there be for advisers in post-Brexit land management?. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2018. Rural Economy and Land Use Policy and Practice Note Series No.4.
• Phillipson J, Proctor A, Emery S, Lowe P. Performing Inter-Professional Expertise in Rural Advisory Networks. Land Use Policy 2016, 54, 321-330.
• Phillipson J, Proctor A, Lowe P. Strengthening the links between the UK strategy for agricultural technologies and farm advisory professions. Natural Environment Research Council: Living with Environmental Change, 2014. LWEC Policy and Practice Notes Series 12.
• Klerkx L, Proctor A. Beyond fragmentation and disconnect: Networks for knowledge exchange in the English land management advisory system. Land Use Policy 2013, 30(1), 13-24.
• Phillipson J, Proctor A. Could advisers of land managers work more effectively across professions?. Swindon: Living with Environmental Change, 2013. LWEC Policy and Pratice Notes Series 3.
• Phillipson J, Proctor A, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Veterinary Field Expertise and Knowledge Exchange. In: Henry, C, ed. Veterinary Business and Enterprise: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Cases. Saunders Ltd, 2013. In Press.
• Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. Field expertise in rural land management. Environment and Planning A 2012, 44(7), 1696-1711.
• Phillipson J, Lowe P, Proctor A, Ruto E. Stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange in environmental research. Journal of Environmental Management 2012, 95(1), 56-65.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Ecologists as Farm Advisors: Using Knowledge gained on the job. In Practice 2011, 74, 16-18.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Field Advisers as Agents of Knowledge Exchange. University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, 2011. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Policy and Practice Note Series 30.
• Enticott G, Donaldson A, Lowe P, Power M, Proctor A, Wilkinson K. The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2011, 366(1573), 1955-1965.
• Proctor A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. Veterinary field expertise: using knowledge gained on the job. London: British Veterinary Association, 2011. Veterinary Record.
• Phillipson J, Liddon A, Proctor A. Telling Stories: Accounting for Knowledge Exchange. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, 2010. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Briefing Paper 10.
• Mangan J, Proctor A, Gibbs D. External influences on the Humber Estuary ports, the largest concentration of activity in the UK. In: Notteboom, T; Ducret, C; de Langen, P, ed. Ports in Proximity: Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, pp.225-233.
• Gibbs D, Deutz P, Proctor A. Industrial Ecology and Eco-industrial Development: A Potential Paradigm for Local and Regional Development?. Regional Studies 2005, 39(2), 171-183.