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Profiles
Dr Claire Kelly
Senior Research Fellow AB
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
Senior Research Fellow
Associate Lecturer
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Environmental Science, First Class Honours (Open University)
MRes Sustainable Environmental Management (University of Plymouth)
PhD Geography (University of Plymouth). Thesis title: Partnerships in the development and management of marine nature-based tourism: An analysis of effectiveness
Professional membership
FRGS
Research interests
Research Interests
Claire holds a Master of Research Degree (MRes) in Sustainable Environmental Management and a Doctorate (PhD) in Geography, focussing on the effectiveness of public/private sector partnerships within the complex and fragmented policy environment of the coastal zone.
Claire currently works as a Research Fellow on a range of human geography-based projects in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, where she is also a member of the Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES). As a social scientist and a geographer, Claire’s research interests focus on people and their relationships to place across a range of contexts. Specifically, her interests span social capital, resilience, stakeholder engagement and partnership working, governance and participation, and qualitative research method development. Claire has taught on a range of modules at undergraduate and Masters levels, including research skills and methods, environmental management and field work.
Outside of academia, Claire has extensive experience of engagement at community level; working with Beaford Arts to design and support the delivery of the oral history component of the Hidden Histories project; as a Project Officer for an EU-funded LEADER II rural development programme, and as a long-term volunteer in her own rural community.
Grants and Contracts
- September 2018 - PI on GCRF with Plymouth University internal competition-funded project 'Ardhi na Kujifunza (Land and Learning): Building a sustainable future on the Jali Ardhi legacy. £73,765 over 15 months.
- May 2018 - Researcher-I on RCUK Newton-CONICYT (Chile) funded project 'Making soil erosion understandable and governable at the basin scale for food, water and hydropower sustainability in Latin America'.
- November 2016 - Named Research Fellow on a GCRF-funded project to examine socio-ecological resilience to soil erosion in the East African region.
- July 2015 – Named Post-Doctoral Researcher on the IMIXSED Project; funded through the HORIZON 2020 RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) programme, this project brings together EU, North American and African scientists to deliver a powerful tool for sediment management.
- April 2015 – Named Post-Doctoral Researcher on the BIOSMART project; funded by the Norwegian Research Council, this project promotes a ‘smart’(integrated, human-capital based, and wise) bioeconomic transition across Norway.
- June 2008 – Travel Grant awarded by the Rural Geography Research Group (RGS) to attend the 3rd Anglo-German Rural Geographers Meeting. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, 27-29 June 2008.
- Oct. 2005 - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD scholarship (Plymouth University).
- Oct. 2000 - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science MRes studentship (Plymouth University).
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019
'Drivers of increased soil erosion in East Africa’s agro-pastoral
systems: changing interactions between the social, economic
and natural domains'
Regional Environmental Change
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change'
Environmental Research Letters
13,
(12)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Belonging in Brexit Britain: Central and Eastern European 1.5 generation young people's experiences'
Population, Space and Place
25,
(1)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'From rural citizenship to the rural citizen: Farming, dementia and networks of care'
Journal of Rural Studies
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation'
Land Degradation & Development
28,
(2)
383-400
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach'
Journal of environmental management
PEARL
2016
'Shaping the role of 'fast' and 'slow' drivers of change in forest-shrubland socio-ecological systems'
Journal of Environmental Management
169,
155-166
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Community resilience, land degradation and lock-in effects: evidence from the Alento region, Italy'
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
59,
(3)
518-537
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green
burials in Britain'
The Geographical Journal
181,
172-184
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'A Multidimensional statistical framework to explore seasonal profile, severity and land-use preferences of wildfires in a Mediterranean country'
International Forestry Review
PEARL
2015
'Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrublandsocio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy'
Land Use Policy
46,
11-20
Publisher Site
, DOI
PEARL
2012
'Reflective practice for marine planning: A case study of marine nature-based tourism partnerships'
Marine Policy
36,
(3)
769-781
PEARL
2012
'Measuring the performance of partnerships: Why, what, how, when?'
Geography Compass
6,
(3)
149-162
PEARL
2008
'Reviews: Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature, A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management: Theory and Practice, the Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance'
26,
(2)
471-476
2008
'Stakeholder dialogues in natural resources management: theory and practice'
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
26,
(2)
474-475
Conference Papers
2015
'Young People, Military Families and Citizenship: War Babies or Heroic Citizens?'
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference. Geographies of the Anthropocene
University of Exeter
01/09/2015
04/09/2015
2014
'Competing Landscape Visions: Stakeholders' Perceptions and the Future of the Landscape of Messara and Asterousia, Greece'
Permanent European Conference on the Study of the Rural Landscape: ‘Unravelling the Logics of Landscape’
Gothenburg and Mariestad, Sweden
08/09/2014
12/09/2014
2013
'Community resilience and land degradation in Gorgoglione, Basilicata (Italy). Paper presented at the , 27 – 30 August 2013'
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference
London
27/08/2013
30/08/2013
2013
'Community resilience, land degradation and lock-in effects: evidence from the Alento region, Campania, Italy'
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference,.
London
27/08/2013
30/08/2013
2011
'Community Resilience and Land Degradation: Evidence from the EU LEDDRA Project. Paper presented at the , 31 August – 2 September 2011'
Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference
London
31/08/2011
02/09/2011
Posters
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'The case for reflective practice in marine planning'
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Other Publications
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PARTNERSHIPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MARINE NATURE-BASED TOURISM: AN ANALYSIS OF EFFECTIVENESS.
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Links
IMIXSED Project: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school-of-geography-earth-and-environmental-sciences/imixsed-project
BIOSMART Project: biosmart.no/en/
Here to Stay Project: www.migrantyouth.org