All Conference Papers

All my biosecurity and rural policy conference papers are listed below by date order. Many, if not all, have either subsequently been published in academic journals. Also included are presentations made to policy makers and stakeholder groups.

2011

Farmers' Confidence in Badger Vaccination - Defra (February, 2011) and WAG (March, 2011)

The social and economic impacts of Bovine Tuberculosis in West Wales – March 17^th, 2011 Carmarthen Regional TB Eradication Board.

Living with Bovine Tuberculosis and the Geography of Veterinary Protocols – February 14th, Nottingham University 2011 

Biosecurity and Risk. BRASS Food Conference, February 8-9^th 2011, Cardiff University. 

Social Impacts of Bovine Tuberculosis in West Wales, January 2011. Welsh Regional Eradication Boards Annual Conference.

2010 

Gut feeling: the zoonotic affects of living with disease. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, September 2010.

On farm practice and knowledge: what qualitative research can tell us about practical policy implementation. Defra Social Science Workshop, London, December 2010.

Living with Animal Disease. ESRC Biosecurity Seminar Series, Birkbeck University, London, 26th November 2010.

Behaviour Change Amongst Farmers and Vets, Welsh Assembly Government & Northern Ireland Bovine Tuberculosis meeting, November 2010.

Living with Bovine Tuberculosis, British Science Association Annual Conference, Food Security and Animal Disease, September, 2010.

Biosecurity Expertise, Veterinary Laboratories Agency and Defra Economics and Social Science Workshop, Weybridge, September, 2010

The Consequences of Living with Disease: Observations on Bovine Tuberculosis, Warwick University / RELU Seminar, May 2010

Communities of Practice and the Management of Bovine Tuberculosis. Seminar at CCRI, February 2010

2009

 

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Biosecurity Knowledge Transfer Interventions in England and Wales, Fifth International M.Bovis Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, August 25-28th 2009.

The Expertise of the Veterinary Protocol, XXIII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Vaasa, Finland, August 2009.

Communities of Veterinary Practice and the Surveillance of Bovine Tuberculosis, Warwick University, 2nd December 2009

Why is there no veterinary social science? Vets and Social Science Collaboratory, Royal Veterinary College, 16th November, 2009

Preventing the Paradox: Social Capital and the Surveillance of Bovine TB. Surveillance and Nonhuman Life ESRC Seminar Series, Newcastle University, January 8th, 2009.

2008


"The lie of the land. From idiom to critique". With Keith Halfacree. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2008.

"Holy Cow! Shambo and the Contested Solutions to Bovine Tuberculosis". Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2008.

"Scripts in Agriculture: Why farming scripts have policy relevance". With Frank Vanclay, Institute of Australian Geographers annual conference, Hobart, Tasmania, July, 2008.

Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Seminar presentation at University of Liverpool Veterinary School, 10th January, 2008

Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Presentation to Welsh Assembly Government policy and stakeholder group (January, 2008).

2007

Oral and written evidence presented to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry into bovine tuberculosis (November, 2007)

Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Presentation to Defra policy and stakeholder group (October 2007)

Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Presentation to Defra TB Husbandry group (September 2007)

TB Policy: a role for biosecurity? Annual Badger Trust Conference, Derbyshire, July 2007.

"Its luck if you go clear and bad luck if you go down": Lay Epidemiology, Candidates for Bovine Tuberculosis and the Implications for Biosecurity. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2007.

"Biosecurity, Sound Science and Partnership Decision Making”. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2007 [with Alex Franklin].

Lay Epidemiology, Candidates for Bovine Tuberculosis and the Implications for Biosecurity. XXII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, Holland, August 2007.

"Biosecurity, Sound Science and Partnership Decision Making". XXII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, Holland, August 2007 [with Alex Franklin].

"Farmers’ attitudes to culling and curing badgers from bovine tuberculosis". Animals and Society II Conference, Tasmania, July, 2007.

"The place of human-animals relationships in the control of disease: the case of bovine tuberculosis". Animals and Society Conference II, Tasmania, July, 2007 [with Alex Franklin].

2006

"The Spaces of Biosecurity". Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March, 2006.

"Rural Policy and the New Localism: An Examination of Local Public Service Agreements". XXI European Congress for Rural Sociology, Keszthely, Hungary, 2005.

2002

"Promoting Health Eating and Local Foods: Incompatible goals? Unpasteurised Milk, Lay Immunology and Rural Identity". Annual Meeting of the Rural Economy and Society Study Group, Cardiff, September 2002.

2001

Risking the Rural: Moral Behaviours and the Consumption of Unpasteurised Milk. XIX European Congress for Rural Sociology, Dijon, France, September 2001.

Volunteering for the rural? Unravelling community action in rural Britain. RGS-IBG annual conference, Plymouth, January 2001. [with A. Ellis].

2000

The Possibilities and Practicalities of using Actor Network Theory in Rural Community Studies. Rural Research and Qualitative Methods RESSG seminar series, Leeds, June 2000.

1999

Doing your PhD: Ethnography, Actor-Network Theory and Rural Studies. Rural Geography Study Group Postgraduate Conference, Swansea, May 1999.
1998

Hybrid ruralities and the differentiated countryside’. Association of American Geographers annual conference, Boston, March 1998.

Heterogeneous relations and the differentiated countryside. RGS-IBG annual conference, Kingston, January 1998.

1997

Heterogeneous Relations and the Construction of Rural Space. Rural Economy and Society Study Group annual conference, Worcester, September 1997.