Caroline Nye

Fostering High‐Quality Engagement in Nature Recovery: Towards a De‐reification of Environmental Land Management Financial incentives go a long way in securing land manager participation in environmental programmes. They are nevertheless limited in their capacity to influence the quality of engagement with natu...

Our paper on the de-reification of environmental land management is out today. Hurrah! The brainchild of Charles Masquelier, we use the Marxist concept of reification to help re-envision effective environmental programmes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Saw H is for Hawk, by @hjm.bsky.social last night. A stunning adaptation of a soulful book that reminds me of PhD working way back when. I recommend to anybody recently impacted by the death of a parent and who wants to feel less isolated in that experience. Take tissues...

Survey links women farmers’ decision-making power to wellbeing - Farmers Weekly Women in farming who feel valued and involved in decision-making have significantly better mental wellbeing and lower loneliness, according to a major new

A slightly more positive/constructive interpretation of the findings: www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/su...

University of Exeter study raises concerns over wellbeing of women farmers Women in farming report higher levels of stress than rest of population, a study suggests.

The first findings from our Health and Wellbeing of Women in Farming picked up by the media today: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(And here are a couple of pics from the pre-fieldwork week long jungle expedition to the Lost City) 😍

Recently returned from six astonishing weeks of fieldwork in Northern Colombia, examining capacity development as part of climate adaptation projects among communities vulnerable to climate change. Immensely grateful, as always, to those participants who make all of our research possible.

I have finally been persuaded as to the professional benefits of LinkedIn (sort of), so come follow/connect/skip/cartwheel joyfully with me at www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-nye-874b263a2

Come and work with us!!

End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives This paper investigates end-of-life decisions for working mules in Nepal, drawing on semi-structured interviews, observations and surveys conducted in…

Our new article has been published!
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End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives This paper investigates end-of-life decisions for working mules in Nepal, drawing on semi-structured interviews, observations and surveys conducted in…

Congrats to @tamlinwatson.bsky.social for getting this paper out there, AND for getting her PhD (under extraordinary circumstances). A huge achievement! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CRPR colleagues were busy at the 30th European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) conference in Riga this week, sharing their research with an international community of rural sociologists. | CRPR Uni... CRPR colleagues were busy at the 30th European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) conference in Riga this week, sharing their research with an international community of rural sociologists. Between t...

Fantastic to see so many @crpr-exeter.bsky.social colleagues presenting and chairing panels at the European Society for Rural Sociology in Riga, Latvia last week www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @beccawheeler.bsky.social @carolinenye.bsky.social @cbroomfield.bsky.social Steve Emery Aoife Maher

Exploring calling to farming careers in the United Kingdom: a scoping review Through a UK lens, this scoping review explores whether farming careers can be considered as a calling, and thus better understood through Work as Calling Theory [Duffy, R. D., Dik, B. J., Douglass...

Great to see this paper out by @carolinenye.bsky.social one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social researchers, on whether farmers consider their careers to be a calling - read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Great to see this important issue raised in Parliment today and the mention of our new £1m project on the health of farm women led by beccawheeler.bsky.social

Onwards and skywards!