Research Themes

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The Rural Futures Hub focuses on 5 key rural themes including: Community, Connectivity, Environment, Health and Wellbeing & Rural Enterprise.

Community

Access to services
Civil Society
Culture
Politics and Protest
Policy and Governance
Religion and rural society
Rural Cosmopolitanism
Rural Crime
Wales Rural Vision Podcast Series
Young people

Connectivity

Art and media
Digital Connections
Rural Change and Globalization
Migration
Rural Spatial Justice
Rural Transport
Rural Theory
Rural-Urban linkages

Environment

Agroforestry and farming
Biofuels and renewable energy
Bioenergy -Supergen
Biomass crops
Climate change
Conservation
Digital agriculture/technology
Ecosystem Services
Farming and Soil Systems
Food Waste
Landscape digital data observation
Resilient crops
Upland Farming
Valuing Nature

Health and Wellbeing

Rural Health
Ageing rural communities
Animal health-VetHub
COVID-19
Nature and Wellbeing
One Health
Rural health worker recruitment
Telehealth
Transport and Health-THINK
Wellbeing and health assessment

Rural Enterprise

Circular economy
CLaRE
Farm business
Global commodity chains
Future Food Centre
Roadside milk
Rural development
Rural entrepreneurship
Rural Skills
Regenerative Tourism