Dr Keith Halfacree

Darllenydd

Geography

+44 (0) 1792 602502

k.h.halfacree@abertawe.ac.uk

Swyddfa Academaidd - 237
Ail lawr
Adeilad Wallace
Campws Singleton

Ar gael ar gyfer Goruchwyliaeth Ôl-raddedig

Dolenni Ymchwil

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1529-609X

Trosolwg

Rwyf wedi gweithio yn yr Adran ers 1991 ond, cyn Abertawe, bûm yn astudio tuag at BSc mewn Daearyddiaeth ym Mhrifysgol Bryste a PhD ym Mhrifysgol Caerhirfryn. Bûm yn gweithio hefyd fel Ymchwilydd ym Mhrifysgol Caerhirfryn.

Mae fy ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar bum maes sy'n gorgyffwrdd. Yn gyntaf, rwy'n astudio mynegiant 'mewnol' yn bennaf o fudo dynol ac rwyf wedi cyhoeddi'n eang ar 'wrthdrefoli' trefol i wledig, safbwyntiau diwylliannol ar fudo a sut mae mudo'n helpu i strwythuro sefydliadau fel teulu a lle. Yn ail, rwy'n ymchwilio i ddisgwrs ar wledigrwydd, yn ardaloedd gogleddol y byd yn bennaf, gan amlinellu cynnwys ein cynrychiolaethau o wledigrwydd ac yn archwilio sut mae'r rhain yn cysylltu ag arferion megis mudo, datblygu naws am le a hamdden. Yn drydydd, gan adeiladu ar hyn, rwy'n ymgysylltu â dadleuon cysyniadol ar newid gwledig a llywio dyfodol gwledig, sy'n bynciau 'byw' iawn yn y cyfnod hwn ar ôl Brexit / Covid. Yn bedwerydd, mae gennyf ddiddordeb cynyddol yn y ffordd nad yw lleoedd gwledig yn cael eu cynhyrchu gan bobl yn unig ond hefyd yn dwyn argraffiadau grymoedd eraill, yn fyw ac yn anfyw. Yn y cyd-destun hwn, rwy'n datblygu ymchwil gyda chydweithiwr ar i ba raddau mae ein hucheldiroedd yn cael eu cyd-gynhyrchu gan ddefaid. Yn olaf, a chan bwyso’n drwm ar ddiddordebau personol, rwy'n mwynhau addysgu ac ymchwilio i 'ddaearyddiaethau ymylol' neu ddaearyddiaethau’r cyrion, mynegiant daearyddol pob dim ‘gwrthddiwylliannol' a materion daearyddol sy'n gysylltiedig â cherddoriaeth Americana a cherddoriaeth werin.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Ardaloedd gwledig yn ardaloedd gogleddol y byd
Gwrthdrefoli a newid poblogaeth wledig
Diffinio a deall gwledigrwydd
Gwledigrwydd radical
Mannau gwrthddiwylliannol
Mudo mewnol
Gofodau natur
Cerddoriaeth Americana

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Diddordebau Addysgu

Daearyddiaeth Wledig
Daearyddiaethau ymylol
Cynaliadwyedd
Daearyddiaeth Ddiwylliannol
Poblogaethau yn Mudo
Daearyddiaeth Poblogaeth

Ymchwil

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Halfacree, K. (2020). ‘If we do not have the pickers, we do not have the industry': rural UK under a Brexit shadow. In J.-F. Rye and K. O'Reilly (Ed.), International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions (pp. 193-208). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58012
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003022367-14/pickers-industry-keith-halfacree
Dymitrow, M. & Halfacree, K. (2018). Sustainability–differently. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 40(40), 7-16.
https://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2018-0011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52565
Halfacree, K. (2018). Hope and repair within the Western Skyline? Americana Music's rural heterotopia. Journal of Rural Studies, 63, 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.009, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43688
Ozdemir, O. & Halfacree, K. (2018). MORE RIGHTS AND MORE FREEDOM’: COMPARATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER ROLES FROM TURKISH WOMEN IN LONDON.. International Journal of Advanced Research, 6(4), 853-867.
https://doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/6921, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40517
http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/6921
Halfacree, K. (2017). Sedentary no longer seems apposite. Internal migration in an era of mobilities. Internal Migration in the Developed World (pp. 272-284). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589282, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40516
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317114499
Barcus, H. & Halfacree, K. (2017). An Introduction to Population Geographies : Lives across space (1st ed.). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203855843, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39432
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203855843
Halfacree, K. (2018). From Ambridge to the world? Class returns to rural population geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(1), 26-30.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617752003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39431
Halfacree, K. (2016). Den Kopf auf dem land freibekommen? Eine Relektüre künstlerischer >>Zurück zur Natur<<-Experimente der 70er Jahre. Draußen.Zum neuen Naturbezug in der popkultur der Gegenwart (pp. 97-117).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30138
Smith, D., Finney, N., Halfacree, K., & Walford, N. (2015). Internal Migration
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589275, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30139
https://www.routledge.com/Internal-Migration-Geographical-Perspectives-and-Processes/Smith-Finney-Walford/p/book/9781138546806
Smith, D., Finney, N., Halfacree, K., & Walford, N. (2015). Introduction: “on the move” in the Twenty-First Century and contemporary internal migration in the UK. Internal Migration. Geographical Perspectives and Processes (pp. 1-14).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30141

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Halfacree, K. (2024). Counterurbanisation in post-covid-19 times. Signifier of resurgent interest in rural space across the global North?. Journal of Rural Studies, 110, 103378
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103378, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67455
Scott, M., Gkartzios, M., & Halfacree, K. (2024). Introducing climate-related counterurbanisation: Individual adaptation or societal maladaptation?. Habitat International, 143
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102970, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65272
Halfacree, K. (2023). Towards a revanchist British rural in post‐COVID times? A challenge to those seeking a good countryside. The Geographical Journal, 0
https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12549, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64784
Nicholas, L., Halfacree, K., & Mabbett, I. (2022). Public Perceptions of Faecal Sludge Biochar and Biosolids Use in Agriculture. Sustainability, 14(22), 15385
https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215385, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62114
Halfacree, K. (2022). Revisiting 1960s Countercultural Back-to-the-Land Migration and Its Millennial Resurgence. The Global Sixties, 15(1-2), 43-78.
https://doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2022.2133275, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2022.2133275
Halfacree, K. & Williams, F. (2021). Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’: Exploring UK sheep-shaping. Journal of Rural Studies, 87, 375-385.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.09.020, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58176
Halfacree, K. (2018). Hope and repair within the Western Skyline? Americana Music's rural heterotopia. Journal of Rural Studies, 63, 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.009, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43688
Dymitrow, M. & Halfacree, K. (2018). Sustainability–differently. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 40(40), 7-16.
https://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2018-0011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52565
Ozdemir, O. & Halfacree, K. (2018). MORE RIGHTS AND MORE FREEDOM’: COMPARATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER ROLES FROM TURKISH WOMEN IN LONDON.. International Journal of Advanced Research, 6(4), 853-867.
https://doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/6921, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40517
http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/6921
Halfacree, K. (2018). From Ambridge to the world? Class returns to rural population geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(1), 26-30.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617752003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39431
Halfacree, K. (2014). A critical response to the (non-)place of rural leisure users within the counterurban imagination. PASOS Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, 12(3), 515-523.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21938
www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/12314/PS0314_02.pdf
Halfacree, K. (2012). Heterolocal Identities? Counter-Urbanisation, Second Homes, and Rural Consumption in the Era of Mobilities. Population, Space and Place, 18(2), 209-224.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.665, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa980
Halfacree, K. & Rivera, M. (2012). Moving to the Countryside ... and Staying: Lives beyond Representations. Sociologia Ruralis, 52(1), 92-114.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00556.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7238
Scott, M., Smith, D., Shucksmith, M., Gallent, N., Halfacree, K., Kilpatrick, S., Johns, S., Vitartas, P., Homisan, M., & Cherrett, T. (2011). Interface. Planning Theory & Practice, 12(4), 593
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2011.626304, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7235
Halfacree, K. (2011). ‘A solid partner in a fluid world’ and/or ‘line of flight’? Interpreting second homes in the era of mobilities. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 65(3), 144-153.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2011.598238, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7237
Halfacree, K. (2010). Reading Rural Consumption Practices for Difference Bolt-holes, Castles and Life-rafts. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2, 241
https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10214241, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa979
Halfacree, K. (2010). ‘Walking with Andrei in Swansea, or going where the paths take me. Qualitative Researcher, 12, 11-3.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7960
Halfacree, K. (2009). ‘Glow worms show the path we have to tread’: the counterurbanisation of Vashti Bunyan. Social & Cultural Geography, 10(7), 771
https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360903205157, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa978
Halfacree, K. (2008). To revitalise counterurbanisation research? Recognising an international and fuller picture. Population, Space and Place, 14(6), 479-495.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.501, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa977
Halfacree, K. (2006). From dropping out to leading on? British counter-cultural back-to-the-land in a changing rurality. Progress in Human Geography, 30(3), 309
https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132506ph609oa, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2058
Halfacree, K. (2004). A utopian imagination in migration'sterra incognita? acknowledging the non-economic worlds of migration decision-making. Population, Space and Place, 10(3), 239
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.326, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2057
Boyle, P., Cooke, T., Halfacree, K., & Smith, D. (2001). A Cross-National Comparison of the Impact of Family Migration on Women's Employment Status. Demography, 38(2), 201
https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2001.0012, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2056
Halfacree, K. (n.d.) Rural Songs for COVID-19 Times? UK Folk Music’s Resurgent Engagement with the Countryside. Area
https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12964, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67279

Llyfrau Awdurol

Barcus, H. & Halfacree, K. (2017). An Introduction to Population Geographies : Lives across space (1st ed.). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203855843, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39432
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203855843
Yarwood, R. & Halfacree, K. (2008). Rural Change Philip Allan Updates.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7955

Penodau Llyfrau

Halfacree, K. (2022). Ongoing challenges: For a resurgent rural in post-Brexit, post-Covid times. Rural Governance in the UK (pp. 220-236). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200208-12, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61868
Halfacree, K. (2020). ‘If we do not have the pickers, we do not have the industry': rural UK under a Brexit shadow. In J.-F. Rye and K. O'Reilly (Ed.), International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions (pp. 193-208). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58012
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003022367-14/pickers-industry-keith-halfacree
Halfacree, K. (2017). Sedentary no longer seems apposite. Internal migration in an era of mobilities. Internal Migration in the Developed World (pp. 272-284). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589282, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40516
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317114499
Halfacree, K. (2016). Den Kopf auf dem land freibekommen? Eine Relektüre künstlerischer >>Zurück zur Natur<<-Experimente der 70er Jahre. Draußen.Zum neuen Naturbezug in der popkultur der Gegenwart (pp. 97-117).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30138
Smith, D., Finney, N., Halfacree, K., & Walford, N. (2015). Introduction: “on the move” in the Twenty-First Century and contemporary internal migration in the UK. Internal Migration. Geographical Perspectives and Processes (pp. 1-14).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30141
Halfacree, K. & Merriman, P. (2015). Performing Internal Migration. Internal Migration: Geographical Perspectives and Processes (pp. 149-164). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30140
Halfacree, K. (2015). Conclusion: moving forward. Internal Migration. Geographical Perspectives and Processes (pp. 165-178).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30142
Halfacree, K. (2014). Jumping up from the armchair: beyond the idyll in counterurbanisation. Understanding Lifestyle Migration (pp. 92-115). Palgrave Macmillan
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328670.0011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21937
Somerville, P., Bosworth, G., & Halfacree, K. (2014). Conclusion: interrogating rural coherence. Interpreting Rurality. Multidisciplinary Approaches (pp. 278-296). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21939
Halfacree, K. (2013). Running wild in the country?: mobilising rural in-migration. (pp. 11Springer
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34532
Halfacree, K. (2013). Magic of The Secret Garden?: acknowledging more-than-representational rurality. New Rural Spaces (pp. 17-26).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34534
Halfacree, K. (2013). Utopian communities and migration. Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Wiley-Blackwell
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34533
Halfacree, K. (2012). Diverse Ruralities in the 21st Century: From Effacement to (Re-)Invention. International Handbook of Rural Demography (pp. 387
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1842-5_26, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7236
Halfacree, K. (2011). ‘“Alternative” communities in rural Wales’. (pp. 65-88). University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7961
Halfacree, K. (2010). ‘Still ‘out of place in the country’? Travellers and the post-productivist rural’. (pp. 123-35). Ashgate
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7959
Halfacree, K. (2009). ‘Rural populations’. Elsevier
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7956
Halfacree, K. (2009). ‘Rurality and post-rurality’. (pp. 449-456). Elsevier
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7957
Halfacree, K. (2009). ‘Urban-rural continuum’. (pp. 119-124). Elsevier
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7958
Halfacree, K. (2008). ‘Locality and social representation: space, discourse and alternative definitions of the rural’,. (pp. 245-260). Ashgate
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7953
Holloway, L. & Halfacree, K. (2008). ‘Rooted in the rural: seeking a back-to-the-land lifestyle in Britain’. (pp. 233-247). Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7954
Singleton, A., Halfacree, K., & Closs Stephens, A. (n.d.) Lower Carbon Weeklong Fieldtrips. In France, D., Batty, L., Swanton. D (Ed.), Fieldtrips in Teaching Fieldwork in Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences Edwards Elgar Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68119

Cynnyrch Ymchwil Arall

Smith, D., Finney, N., Halfacree, K., & Walford, N. (2015). Internal Migration
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589275, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30139
https://www.routledge.com/Internal-Migration-Geographical-Perspectives-and-Processes/Smith-Finney-Walford/p/book/9781138546806

Goruchwyliaeth

Evaluating the Socio-Environmental Benefits and Perceptions of Nature-Based Solutions (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Iain Robertson
Sensing Wales: Conflicting Identities and Belonging of Young Ethnic Minority People in Wales (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Sergei Shubin
Smart city system practices and the role of governance in the rural development process (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Richard Smith
Risking Net Zero. Perspectives from Geographic Political Economy on the UK’s ‘De-Risking’ Climate Finance regime (dyfarnwyd 2024)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Christopher Muellerleile
Public perceptions of wildfire in Great Britain: case studies from Wales, England and Scotland (dyfarnwyd 2024)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Cristina Santin Nuno

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Stefan Doerr
Reconfiguring the place of estate-based game management: challenge, change and opportunity within rural England and Wales today (dyfarnwyd 2023)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Angharad Closs Stephens
Art and Austerity: Geographies of Urban Change. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Amanda Rogers
Living a One Planet Life: Experiences and Perceptions of the One Planet Development Policy (dyfarnwyd 2023)

MSc

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Pyrs Gruffudd

Modiwlau a Addysgir

GEG135 Sustainability and the Climate Emergency

This module is an introduction to global environmental change and explores aspects of the issue of sustainability as it affects everyday lives. The challenge of sustainability is significant and the lectures will provide you with the information needed to engage with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
GEG229 Marginal Cultural Geographies

What is `human geography¿ about if it is not concerned with difference? And what is cultural geography if it does not involve understanding and appreciating the diverse social and cultural forms that both include and exist around today, even in Swansea? This module introduces students to some of the huge range of contemporary cultural human geography scholarship that explores this diversity, with a particular focus on what is termed 'marginal geographies'. Specifically, attention focuses on the relevance, expression and importance of alternative, radical, and countercultural lives and spaces that are more chosen by those involved than forced on them by circumstances such as discrimination. These geographies 'on the margins' are presented under the four headings of leisure, production, environmentalism and living. They are contrasted to those of the 'mainstream', although a key theme in the module is how this distinction is always provisional, problematic and inherently dynamic.
GEG252B Geographical Fieldwork skills: Berlin

The module is concerned with identifying and defining geographical questions in Berlin and applying the relevant geographical skills, knowledge and techniques to these questions. The general aims are to observe, analyse and achieve an understanding of the varied geographies and landscapes of the city. The emphasis is on the cultural, political, urban and economic geographies of Berlin, focussing on landscapes of power and memory, counter-culture and gentrification, and culture and everyday life in the city. The module comprises preparatory lectures and small-group preparation work in Swansea, and a week's fieldwork in Berlin. Assessment is entirely through coursework.
GEG277 Geographical Methods and Data Analysis

This core 20-credit module introduces a variety of physical and human geography methods, along with data analysis. The module builds upon student knowledge and covers research design, data collection and data analysis. Students are introduced to a range of lab and field techniques in physical and / or human geography along with statistical analysis. They gain experience in describing, interpreting and presenting the results.
GEG331 Dissertation Report: Geography

The dissertation is an original, substantive and independent research project in an aspect of Geography. The dissertation research project is based on 20 - 25 days of primary research (e.g fieldwork, lab work, archive work) and several months of analysis and write-up. The end result must be less than 10,000 words of text. The dissertation offers you the chance to follow your personal interests and to demonstrate your capabilities as a Geographer. During the course of your dissertation, you will be supported by a peer-led discussion group and a staff supervisor. Lectures and guidance are delivered via this module and peer and staff led Dissertation Support Groups are delivered via GEG332. Participating in Dissertation Support Groups is vital, and is assessed and, in these groups, students will provide constructive criticism to fellow students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and subsequent solutions. This support and supervision is delivered through GEG332, which is a co- requisite.
GEG332 Dissertation Support: Geography

This module provides structured, student-led peer-group support and academic staff group supervision for students undertaking the 30-credit 'Dissertation Report: Geography' module. This support and supervision is assessed through the submission of the Dissertation Outline and the Dissertation Support Group Reflection and Attendance Log. Working within a supervised Student Peer Group, students have the opportunity to provide constructive criticism to fellow students undertaking related research projects, learning from their research problems and subsequent solutions. Group sessions are the main support provision as student¿s work through their Dissertation. This module complements the 'Dissertation Report: Geography' module, which is a co-requisite.
GEG341 Contemporary Rural Britain

This module provides a comprehensive account of the human geography of present-day rural Britain. Substantive issues covered include: the rural economy, both agricultural and non-agricultural; population change in the countryside, especially migration; the development and impact of the town and country planning system in rural areas; the more specific issues of rural housing, accessibility and services, and their link to deprivation; the activities and effects of rural pressure groups; the variety of different groups and experiences found in the countryside, especially focusing on neglected groups; political debates over land use and control; the political structure of rural areas; and the idea that rural Britain is moving from `productivism¿ to `post-productivism¿. The module is exclusively focused on Britain during the post-1945 period. It demonstrates that contemporary rural Britain does not conform to the timeless rustic idyll of Laura Ashley designs and chocolate box cottages but is an arena of dynamic change, conflict and compromise.
GEGM15 Qualitative Research Methods

This is a ¿hands on¿ module concerned specifically with how to effectively and reflectively ¿do¿ qualitative methods in the social sciences. It complements and builds on similar modules in quantitative approaches and epistemological and ontological frameworks such as CRM02, CRM03, POM32 and EDM18. After two initial lectures situating the contested and shifting notion of ¿the field¿ and relationships between theory and practice, students will engage in a series of hands-on, practical workshops in specific methods. Workshops will be of 3 hours duration each and will include a theoretical element, a practice element and a reflection element. Following each workshop students will be asked to complete a short, 800-word reflection on the applicability of the research method to their discipline and set of research questions. Students will be encouraged in their reflections to consider both the practical and academic aspects of ¿doing¿ each method. The completed reflective portfolio will be handed in at the end of the course for marking. The methods will vary depending on the staff complement teaching the module from year to year, but are very likely to include: ¿ Ethnographic methods and observation ¿ Archival research, oral history and biographical methods. ¿ Organisational research and interviewing elite actors ¿ Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups ¿ Mobile methods ¿ Participatory action research ¿ Textual and online methods.
GEGM30 Contemporary Rural Britain

This module provides a comprehensive account of the human geography of present-day rural Britain. Substantive issues covered include: the rural economy, both agricultural and non-agricultural; population change in the countryside, especially migration; the development and impact of the town and country planning system in rural areas; the more specific issues of rural housing, accessibility and services, and their link to deprivation; the activities and effects of rural pressure groups; the variety of different groups and experiences found in the countryside, especially focusing on neglected groups; political debates over land use and control; the political structure of rural areas; and the idea that rural Britain is moving from `productivism¿ to `post-productivism¿. The module is exclusively focused on Britain during the post-1945 period. It demonstrates that contemporary rural Britain does not conform to the timeless rustic idyll of Laura Ashley designs and chocolate box cottages but is an arena of dynamic change, conflict and compromise.

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Evaluating the Socio-Environmental Benefits and Perceptions of Nature-Based Solutions (cyfredol)

Sensing Wales: Conflicting Identities and Belonging of Young Ethnic Minority People in Wales (cyfredol)

Smart city system practices and the role of governance in the rural development process (cyfredol)

Risking Net Zero. Perspectives from Geographic Political Economy on the UK’s ‘De-Risking’ Climate Finance regime (dyfarnwyd 2024)

Public perceptions of wildfire in Great Britain: case studies from Wales, England and Scotland (dyfarnwyd 2024)

Reconfiguring the place of estate-based game management: challenge, change and opportunity within rural England and Wales today (dyfarnwyd 2023)

Art and Austerity: Geographies of Urban Change. (cyfredol)

Living a One Planet Life: Experiences and Perceptions of the One Planet Development Policy (dyfarnwyd 2023)

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GEG135 Sustainability and the Climate Emergency

GEG229 Marginal Cultural Geographies

GEG252B Geographical Fieldwork skills: Berlin

GEG277 Geographical Methods and Data Analysis

GEG331 Dissertation Report: Geography

GEG332 Dissertation Support: Geography

GEG341 Contemporary Rural Britain

GEGM15 Qualitative Research Methods

GEGM30 Contemporary Rural Britain