Research & innovation are crucial to delivering benefits across the UK. But how can we achieve this while also recognising the unique needs of specific areas? My new blog explores this, focusing on UK Research and Innovation new Local Policy Innovation Partnerships.

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Join us on the 25th of April for a day of imagining rural futures....
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Cymru Wledig LPIP Rural Wales is hiring a Community Action Research Facilitator, based at our partners Together for Change. Closing date 19 April. More details: recruit3.org.uk/job/community-… (English); recruit3.org.uk/job/community-… (Cymraeg)

Reminder: Three days left to apply for this quant / GIS / electoral geography post-doc with me on the Rural Spatial Justice project. Deadline Sun 7 April. jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/pdr…

Hi everyone. I have a new @wgsssdtp PhD studentship available using #seriousgames for land use #NetZero in Wales. Please share if possible and happy to discuss with potential candidates. Ta v much! Food Geographies Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG AFN Network+ TABLE ESRS - European Society of Rural Sociology Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)he

New Job Opportunity: I'm looking for a Quantitative / GIS post-doc to work on the Rural-Spatial-Justice project, examining rural discontent and support for disruptive politics. 4.5 years. Closing date: 7 April. More details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/pdr…

Congratulations Eric and thanks for a fascinating discussion about neo-exogenous development and the ‘rural integration machine’ in China. I’m looking forward to seeing these ideas published.

In this blog, Anwen Elias takes a closer look at the final report by the Comisiwn y Cyfansoddiad / Constitution Commission on Wales' Constitutional Future.

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Some TV themes stay with you all your life. I still remember the theme tunes of the 5-minute kids’ programmes BBC-1 used to show before the evening news. Wombles, Roobarb, Magic Roundabout…loved them all. Here’s my tribute to those scintillating shorts. CBeebies Grown-Ups 🎉