Carolyn Petersen
@carolynpetersen.bsky.social
Researching renewing nature and biodiversity through investigating the role of people; plus governance of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation at CRPR, Uni of Exeter.
LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-petersen-7481b61
LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-petersen-7481b61
Check out this BBC Food Programme episode on the UK's reliance on horticulture production in Senegal, & the climate-related pressure in other UK supply countries (e.g. Italy, Spain) to buy up land in Senegal to do the same @crpr-exeter.bsky.social #climateadaptation www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Food Programme - Why Is Africa Feeding Us? - BBC Sounds
Dan Saladino investigates our growing dependence on West Africa for fresh produce.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Check out this BBC Food Programme episode on the UK's reliance on horticulture production in Senegal, & the climate-related pressure in other UK supply countries (e.g. Italy, Spain) to buy up land in Senegal to do the same @crpr-exeter.bsky.social #climateadaptation www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Join us for distinguished lecture 17th Dec 10.15-12.15pm by @crpr-exeter.bsky.social's Professor Michael Winter: Whatever happened to the Political Economy of Agriculture?
Lecture Theatre 1, Queens Building, Streatham Campus
10.15am - tea/coffee
10.45am - lecture
Register: tinyurl.com/4zxjz3xs
Lecture Theatre 1, Queens Building, Streatham Campus
10.15am - tea/coffee
10.45am - lecture
Register: tinyurl.com/4zxjz3xs
October 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Join us for distinguished lecture 17th Dec 10.15-12.15pm by @crpr-exeter.bsky.social's Professor Michael Winter: Whatever happened to the Political Economy of Agriculture?
Lecture Theatre 1, Queens Building, Streatham Campus
10.15am - tea/coffee
10.45am - lecture
Register: tinyurl.com/4zxjz3xs
Lecture Theatre 1, Queens Building, Streatham Campus
10.15am - tea/coffee
10.45am - lecture
Register: tinyurl.com/4zxjz3xs
What a fun evening yesterday playing in a ceilidh with Wren Music's Devon Folk Orchestra raising money together with the Devon Inclusive Folk Ensemble for Vranch House Children's Charity. Thank you to the wonderful Jenny Read, Jon Dyer, and all the volunteers for the behind the scenes set up.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What a fun evening yesterday playing in a ceilidh with Wren Music's Devon Folk Orchestra raising money together with the Devon Inclusive Folk Ensemble for Vranch House Children's Charity. Thank you to the wonderful Jenny Read, Jon Dyer, and all the volunteers for the behind the scenes set up.
Delighted to see this article out on using interactive walkable floor maps to explore nature-based solutions with education & policy practitioners at the science-policy interface doi.org/10.1016/j.nb.... With Jeppe Læssøe, Duncan Russel, Ellen Banzhaf & Sebastian Elze
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Delighted to see this article out on using interactive walkable floor maps to explore nature-based solutions with education & policy practitioners at the science-policy interface doi.org/10.1016/j.nb.... With Jeppe Læssøe, Duncan Russel, Ellen Banzhaf & Sebastian Elze
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
@crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Great to see @crpr-exeter.bsky.social researchers Fatma Sabet and Aoife Maher participating in the UKRI Food Commercialisation Catalyst Sandpit, hosted by Zinc in London on 2nd–3rd July. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I’m thrilled to share with colleagues that I was shortlisted (along with my colleague Aoife Maher in CRPR) from Exeter to participate in the prestigious UKRI Food Commercialisation Catalyst Sandpit… |...
I’m thrilled to share with colleagues that I was shortlisted (along with my colleague Aoife Maher in CRPR) from Exeter to participate in the prestigious UKRI Food Commercialisation Catalyst Sandpit, h...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Great to see @crpr-exeter.bsky.social researchers Fatma Sabet and Aoife Maher participating in the UKRI Food Commercialisation Catalyst Sandpit, hosted by Zinc in London on 2nd–3rd July. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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“taking the least productive land out of food production, but supporting the more productive land to increase production”
Land sparing has wormed its way into policy
Ignoring many issues, eg: how we increase production & the spillover of damage from those areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Land sparing has wormed its way into policy
Ignoring many issues, eg: how we increase production & the spillover of damage from those areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
English farms could be taken out of food production to boost nature, says minister
Plans announced by environment secretary mean many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“taking the least productive land out of food production, but supporting the more productive land to increase production”
Land sparing has wormed its way into policy
Ignoring many issues, eg: how we increase production & the spillover of damage from those areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Land sparing has wormed its way into policy
Ignoring many issues, eg: how we increase production & the spillover of damage from those areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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And this morning looking forward to see our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social colleagues talking about scientist-farmer collaborations #groundswell25
Tomorrow, you can hear from Steve Emery (also of Rothamstead) and Catherine Broomfield (also Pasture for Life) about their work on farming-science collaborations (Thurs 10.15am, PFLA Tent). We're looking forward to getting stuck in at #groundswell25 !
July 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
And this morning looking forward to see our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social colleagues talking about scientist-farmer collaborations #groundswell25
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We had SUCH a great day at #groundswell25 yesterday. Thankyou so much to everyone who came to our session.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We had SUCH a great day at #groundswell25 yesterday. Thankyou so much to everyone who came to our session.
Delighted to see this joint article out on how local businesses are shaping sustainable tourism in our Biosphere Reserves based on work with The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere, @visitbrighton.bsky.social and local businesses on the BCHT Project. doi.org/10.1080/1461... @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Local businesses as boundary actors shaping sustainable tourism futures in Biosphere Reserves
Biosphere Reserves have attracted significant attention from tourism scholars, not least for the management challenges they pose. As ‘bounded spaces’, they are defined by their shared natural and c...
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Delighted to see this joint article out on how local businesses are shaping sustainable tourism in our Biosphere Reserves based on work with The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere, @visitbrighton.bsky.social and local businesses on the BCHT Project. doi.org/10.1080/1461... @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
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Sharing highlights from last week's visit from the University of Kentucky exploring local food system innovation with @crpr-exeter.bsky.social, @exeterfood.bsky.social and @exeter.ac.uk. Visits to Bristol Food Network, S. Devon Food Hub, Riverford Organics, Great Cornish Food Store & Lynher Dairies.
June 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Sharing highlights from last week's visit from the University of Kentucky exploring local food system innovation with @crpr-exeter.bsky.social, @exeterfood.bsky.social and @exeter.ac.uk. Visits to Bristol Food Network, S. Devon Food Hub, Riverford Organics, Great Cornish Food Store & Lynher Dairies.
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What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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With insect populations worldwide threatened by climate change and habitat loss, it’s absolutely vital that we all STOP USING PESTICIDES such as glyphosate (roundup).
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
#DorsetCouncil
#RestoreNatureNow
#PesticideFreeTown
#Wimborne
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
#DorsetCouncil
#RestoreNatureNow
#PesticideFreeTown
#Wimborne
“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
With insect populations worldwide threatened by climate change and habitat loss, it’s absolutely vital that we all STOP USING PESTICIDES such as glyphosate (roundup).
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
#DorsetCouncil
#RestoreNatureNow
#PesticideFreeTown
#Wimborne
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
#DorsetCouncil
#RestoreNatureNow
#PesticideFreeTown
#Wimborne
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Congratulations to @ryanshum.bsky.social, one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social postdoc researchers, on winning the Science and Technology Studies 2025 Andrew Webster AsSIST-UK PhD prize for their thesis: Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography. assistuk.org/2025/06/03/2...
2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize is awarded to: Dr. Ryan Shum (University of Exeter) for his thesis: Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory …
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June 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Congratulations to @ryanshum.bsky.social, one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social postdoc researchers, on winning the Science and Technology Studies 2025 Andrew Webster AsSIST-UK PhD prize for their thesis: Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography. assistuk.org/2025/06/03/2...
Great to see our joint research picked up by the @uniofexeternews.bsky.social: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... @Duncan Russel, @Nick Kirsop-Taylor, @andersbranthp.bsky.social @Anne Jensen @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Involving communities in nature-based solutions to climate challenges leads to greater innovation, study shows
Involving communities in nature-based solutions to tackle urban climate and environmental challenges leads to innovation and multiple benefits, a study shows. Participation of citizens in NBS projects...
news.exeter.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Great to see our joint research picked up by the @uniofexeternews.bsky.social: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... @Duncan Russel, @Nick Kirsop-Taylor, @andersbranthp.bsky.social @Anne Jensen @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
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This Sunday (25th) listen to a BBC radio programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival delving into John Harvey's research (one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Associates) on the environmental impacts of dog food for our four-legged friends www.hayfestival.com/p-23873-bbc-...
BBC Radio 4: Sliced Bread - Hay Festival
Greg Foot returns to Hay Festival with the hugely popular consumer science programme.
www.hayfestival.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This Sunday (25th) listen to a BBC radio programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival delving into John Harvey's research (one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Associates) on the environmental impacts of dog food for our four-legged friends www.hayfestival.com/p-23873-bbc-...
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Catch @beccawheeler.bsky.social, one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social researchers on a BBC Woman's Hour special talking about her research on the health and wellbeing of women in farming www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - perfect bank holiday brunch listening (or you can catch up later via BBC Sounds)
BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women in farming | A Woman’s Hour special
Anita Rani spends a day at a farm in Devon hearing from female farmers about their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Catch @beccawheeler.bsky.social, one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social researchers on a BBC Woman's Hour special talking about her research on the health and wellbeing of women in farming www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - perfect bank holiday brunch listening (or you can catch up later via BBC Sounds)
This Sunday (25th) listen to a BBC radio programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival delving into John Harvey's research (one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Associates) on the environmental impacts of dog food for our four-legged friends www.hayfestival.com/p-23873-bbc-...
BBC Radio 4: Sliced Bread - Hay Festival
Greg Foot returns to Hay Festival with the hugely popular consumer science programme.
www.hayfestival.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This Sunday (25th) listen to a BBC radio programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival delving into John Harvey's research (one of our @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Associates) on the environmental impacts of dog food for our four-legged friends www.hayfestival.com/p-23873-bbc-...
Thank you to staff at the Central Dartmoor Farm Cluster Landscape Recovery Scheme and @exeter.ac.uk RENEW Biodiversity team and East Shallowford Farm for the fascinating dialogue today about landscape recovery/biodiversity renewal - definitely scope for future collaboration @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thank you to staff at the Central Dartmoor Farm Cluster Landscape Recovery Scheme and @exeter.ac.uk RENEW Biodiversity team and East Shallowford Farm for the fascinating dialogue today about landscape recovery/biodiversity renewal - definitely scope for future collaboration @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
Thank you to Naomi Oakley for showing us around Challacombe Farm, Dartmoor as part of our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social retreat. What an inspiring combination of environmental management, nature-friendly organic livestock farming and public access @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Thank you to Naomi Oakley for showing us around Challacombe Farm, Dartmoor as part of our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social retreat. What an inspiring combination of environmental management, nature-friendly organic livestock farming and public access @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
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Sharing this story of how Aoife Maher, one of our newest @crpr-exeter.bsky.social postdocs, celebrated finishing her PhD by forging a sword (also an interesting farm diversification activity). Apparently it's a thing - who knew? More info here: www.discoverphds.com/blog/finland...
May 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sharing this story of how Aoife Maher, one of our newest @crpr-exeter.bsky.social postdocs, celebrated finishing her PhD by forging a sword (also an interesting farm diversification activity). Apparently it's a thing - who knew? More info here: www.discoverphds.com/blog/finland...
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We were delighted to welcome Alexandre, Andrezza and Renato from the Instituto Ouro Verde in Mato Grosso, Brazil to give a fascinating @crpr-exeter.bsky.social seminar today on agroforestry and family farming strategies in sunny Exeter. Thanks also to Toby Pennington and the CASPER team.
May 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We were delighted to welcome Alexandre, Andrezza and Renato from the Instituto Ouro Verde in Mato Grosso, Brazil to give a fascinating @crpr-exeter.bsky.social seminar today on agroforestry and family farming strategies in sunny Exeter. Thanks also to Toby Pennington and the CASPER team.
Urban and nature highlights from my week so far @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Urban and nature highlights from my week so far @crpr-exeter.bsky.social
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Progress update from intrepid @veronicaawhite.bsky.social @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD researcher from her cycling trip researching women in farming: ~4 weeks, 1037km (Land's End - London), 12 farm visits. She is fundraising for the Farming Community Network: www.justgiving.com/page/farming...
May 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Progress update from intrepid @veronicaawhite.bsky.social @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD researcher from her cycling trip researching women in farming: ~4 weeks, 1037km (Land's End - London), 12 farm visits. She is fundraising for the Farming Community Network: www.justgiving.com/page/farming...
Resharing this image showing extent of recent wildfires on Dartmoor
First reasonably clear #Copernicus #Sentinel-2 image of Sunday's devastating Cut Hill fire on #Dartmoor has been acquired today. Impossible to estimate the total area burnt. #eochat @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @tonydartmoor.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @theguardian.com @righttoroam.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Resharing this image showing extent of recent wildfires on Dartmoor
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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...
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...
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May 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...