Latest Publications
This section highlights the Centre for Rural Economy鈥檚 latest publications, including journal articles, book chapters, reports, and briefing papers. It provides an up-to-date overview of our research outputs, showcasing recent findings and insights across agriculture, rural policy, environment, and the wider rural economy.
CRE Latest Publication
For ease of reference, the Centre’s most recent publications are presented in alphabetical order according to the surname of the first author.
Brown D and Shucksmith M (2026) Defining Rural and Rurality, Chapter 2 on Tickamyer A, and Sachs C (eds) Research Handbook of Rural Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Clark, B., Kuznesof, S., Boaitey, A. and Panzone, L., 2025. Labelling and food. In Elgar Encyclopaedia of Food and Society (pp. 334-336). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Shortall, S. (2025) Breaking the grass ceiling: Gender inequality in agriculture Open Access Government, 47(1), pp. 430–431. doi:10.56367/oag-047-12106.
Sutherland, L.A., Bjarnason, T., Gkartzios, M. and Peeren, E. (2025). #RuralGazes: An Autoethnography of Our Ways of Seeing. In E. Peeren and T. Valdés-Olmos (Eds.), Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World (pp. 107-126). Leiden: Brill