The UK and Ireland Rural Futures Network: Preparing for social and economic transitions Post Brexit and Covid-19

英国和爱尔兰农村未来网络：为英国脱欧和 Covid-19 后的社会和经济转型做好准备

• 批准号: ES/V00901X/1
• 负责人: Sally Shortall
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV00901X%2F1
• 关键词: UK; Ireland; Rural; Futures; Network

This proposal brings together academics, policy makers and practitioners from across the UK and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) to develop a future research agenda and to reframe future rural policy. Covid-19 has brought refocused attention to rural areas, now seen as safer places to live and thus more desirable. Brexit has had, and will continue to have, significant social and economic impact across the British Isles. Responses to these drivers of change will require a new research agenda to ensure transition to a just and inclusive policy and practice environment. This proposal will support the process of reframing how we think about rural. The embryonic network will lead to longer-term collaboration, expanded to a wider network of academics and stakeholders.Rural is often simply juxtaposed with urban, in a rural/ urban binary, generally unhelpful to nuanced social science research. We will examine the differentiated rural and consider emerging research questions and policies. For example, rural England is understood as idyllic, preserved, and unaffordable, yet this exists alongside left-behind rural places with low-priced housing and a stagnant economy. ROI is often understood as a landscape of small holders, but this varies between the East and West. Remoteness in Scotland is quite different to England. Welsh agriculture is different to the rest of Britain because of landscape and environmental constraints. These differences result in diverse lived realities of rural within and between each nation. Yet, there is a dominant and politicized narrative in the UK and ROI engrained in research and policy practices. It is notable that in some cases the research focus has changed little in decades e.g. affordable rural housing in England, disadvantaged rural in Northern Ireland. Our comparative analysis will employ a state-of-the-art methodology that will nurture new thinking, creating an environment that forces participants out of established ways of thinking about the rural. It will allow us to understand the different priorities in each place, how they are determined and maintained, why polices have not always been effective. Recognising these processes will allow us to determine the dynamics of policy blockages and thus to identify future research needs. The loss of EU networking structures presents an opportunity to think creatively. We do this in a novel way. While EU networks were siloed (practitioners with practitioners; policy/policy; academics/academics), this network will facilitate six four-day knowledge exchanges where individuals move between spheres (policy/practice/academia) and across territories (ROI, NI, Wales, England, Scotland). Knowledge exchange is the subject of the final workshop. We focus on three distinct areas of the rural to collaboratively develop future research questions: the spatial, the sectoral, and the socio-political construction of rural. Each has a dedicated workshop. The named Co-Is, policy makers and practitioners will attend all workshops. The spatial focus will be on rural policies, what the loss of the EU Rural Development Programme means for different nations of the UK, how it functions in ROI, the impact of planning policies on rural housing, identifying future research needs post Covid-19 and Brexit. The sectoral focus will consider research questions about the future of agriculture, and the use of measures, both within and outside the CAP, to deliver public goods and maintain natural capital. The socio-political workshop focuses on how the rural both at a sectoral and spatial level is socially constructed, which actors hold power, in whose interests they act, who is marginalised, and what research is needed to enhance socially equal access to the rural. The knowledge-exchange workshop will bring fresh insights about different ways of knowing and acting, and help each jurisdiction ensure just transitions to a future rural.

该提案汇集了来自英国和爱尔兰共和国（ROI）的学者，政策制定者和从业人员，以制定未来的研究议程并重新制定未来的农村政策。新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）使人们重新关注农村地区，现在农村地区被视为更安全的居住地，因此更受欢迎。英国脱欧已经并将继续对整个不列颠群岛产生重大的社会和经济影响。要应对这些变革驱动因素，就需要制定新的研究议程，以确保过渡到公正和包容的政策和实践环境。这一提议将支持重新构建我们对农村的看法。这个尚处于萌芽阶段的网络将带来更长期的合作，并扩展到更广泛的学术界和利益相关者网络。农村往往只是与城市并列，处于农村/城市的二元状态，通常无助于细致入微的社会科学研究。我们将研究差异化的农村，并考虑新出现的研究问题和政策。例如，英格兰农村被认为是田园诗般的，保存完好的，负担不起的，但这与落后的农村地区存在低价住房和经济停滞。投资回报率通常被理解为小业主的景观，但这在东方和西方之间有所不同。苏格兰的偏远与英格兰大不相同。由于地形和环境的限制，威尔士的农业与英国其他地区不同。这些差异导致了每个国家内部和国家之间农村生活的不同现实。然而，在英国有一种占主导地位的政治化叙事，投资回报率根植于研究和政策实践中。值得注意的是，在某些情况下，研究重点几十年来变化不大，例如英格兰负担得起的农村住房，北方爱尔兰的贫困农村。我们的比较分析将采用最先进的方法，培养新的思维，创造一个环境，迫使参与者摆脱对农村的既定思维方式。它将使我们了解每个地方的不同优先事项，它们是如何确定和维持的，为什么政策并不总是有效的。认识到这些过程将使我们能够确定政策障碍的动态，从而确定未来的研究需求。欧盟网络结构的丧失提供了一个创造性思考的机会。我们以一种新颖的方式做到这一点。虽然欧盟网络是孤立的（从业人员与从业人员;政策/政策;学者/学者），但该网络将促进六个为期四天的知识交流，个人在各个领域（政策/实践/学术界）和跨地区（ROI，NI，威尔士，英格兰，苏格兰）之间移动。知识交流是最后研讨会的主题。我们专注于农村的三个不同的领域，合作开发未来的研究问题：农村的空间，部门和社会政治建设。每个人都有一个专门的车间。指定的协调机构、决策者和从业人员将参加所有讲习班。空间重点将是农村政策，欧盟农村发展计划的损失对英国不同国家意味着什么，它如何在投资回报率中发挥作用，规划政策对农村住房的影响，确定新冠肺炎后的未来研究需求。部门重点将考虑有关农业未来的研究问题，以及在联合呼吁程序内外采取措施提供公共产品和维护自然资本。社会政治研讨会的重点是农村在部门和空间层面上是如何社会构建的，哪些行为者掌握权力，他们为谁的利益行事，谁被边缘化，以及需要进行哪些研究来加强农村的社会平等机会。知识交流研讨会将带来关于不同认知和行动方式的新见解，并帮助每个司法管辖区确保向未来农村的公正过渡。