Lorna Philip will be attending the annual meeting of the 'Trans-Atlantic Rural Research Network' (TARRN) in Newcastle in April.
TARRN is a collaborative network of social scientists in North America and Europe conducting original research on rural transformation and rural policies. The group started out over 10 years ago as a formal collaboration between rural social scientists at the Universities of Aberdeen, Queen’s Belfast, Newcastle, University of the Highlands and Islands and Cornell. Currently anchored by academics at Aberdeen (Philip and Jo Vergunst in Anthropology), Queen’s Belfast, Newcastle, Penn State and Cornell, the group’s activities have included organising special issues of journals (e.g. in Regional Studies, 2010), various co-authored journal articles, organizing sessions at leading conferences, and the production of a volume published by Routledge in 2012 entitled Rural Transformation and Rural Policies in the US and UK.
The 2014 annual meeting will be attended by more than 40 academics. Further information about TARRN is available at http://tarrn.wordpress.com/