Dr Claire Kelly

Biography

Lecturer in Quality Management and Research - Peninsula Medical School
Senior Research Fellow - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Qualifications

1999 BSc (Hons) Environmental Science, First Class Honours (Open University)
2002 MRes Sustainable Environmental Management (University of Plymouth)
2009 PhD Geography (University of Plymouth). Thesis title: Partnerships in the development and management of marine nature-based tourism: An analysis of effectiveness.

Professional membership

Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

Roles on external bodies

Adjunct Faculty Member, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania
Trustee, Beaford Arts

Key publications

Blake WH, Rabinovich A, Wynants M, Kelly C, Nasseri M, Ngondya I, Patrick A, Mtei K, Munishi L & Boeckx P (2018) 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) 0-0 Author Site , DOI Open access

Kelly CL, Ferrara A, Wilson GA, Ripullone F, Nolè A, Harmer N & Salvati L (2015) 'Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy' Land Use Policy 46, 11-20 Publisher Site , DOI Open access

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Teaching

Teaching interests

Personal Tutor
Social Science research methods

Research

Research interests

Claire holds a Master of Research Degree (MRes) in Sustainable Environmental Management and a Doctorate (PhD) in Geography, focusing on the effectiveness of public/private sector partnerships within the complex and fragmented policy environment of the coastal zone.

Claire is a senior member of staff, leading and collaborating on a range of interdisciplinary research projects in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Peninsula Medical School. As a social scientist, 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.

Outside of academia, Claire has extensive experience of engagement at community level; as a Trustee, and Archive Steering Group Member at Beaford Arts; and as a long-term volunteer in her own rural community.

Grants & contracts

2022 - SEI Small Collaborative Awards (Co-I): Mapping Treescapes Narratives. £3,000

2020 - BBSRC GCRF Translation Awards (Res-I): Integrated community-driven engagement for sustainable enhancement of food production in East Africa: the Jali Ardhi project. £252,581.15

2020 - GCRF with Plymouth University (Co-I): Water security in the agricultural landscapes of Turkey: towards improving the resilience of communities and socio-ecological systems. £59,242.

2020 - GCRF with Plymouth University (Co-I): Nuestro Rio (our river): Local perspectives on water quality in the Rio Santa, Peru. £55,526.

2020 - RGS Environment and Society Scheme (Co-I): Improving socio-ecological resilience to wildfire in the UK via community engagement and integration of deep-time ecological data into landscape management. £14,943

2019 - BBSRC Citizen Science Exploration Grant call (Co-I): SoilSCAN: Soils, Science and Community ActioN. £19,248.02

2018 - GCRF with Plymouth University (PI): 'Ardhi na Kujifunza (Land and Learning): Building a sustainable future on the Jali Ardhi legacy. £73,765.

2018 - RCUK Newton-CONICYT (Res-I): 'Making soil erosion understandable and governable at the basin scale for food, water and hydropower sustainability in Latin America'. £405,509.

2017 - NERC GCRF (RF): Jali Ardhi II: Realising land management change in degraded Maasai grazing lands. £101,243

2016 - NERC GCRF (RF): Jali Ardhi: Socio-ecological resilience to soil erosion driven by extreme climatic events: past, present and future challenges in East Africa. £168,640.

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals

Articles

Kelly C, Wynants M, Patrick A, Taylor A, Mkilema F, Nasseri M, Lewin S, Munishi L, Mtei K & Ndakidemi P (2022) 'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN): A citizen science tool to empower community-led land management change in East Africa' Environmental Research Letters 17, , DOI Open access

Taylor A, Wynants M, Munishi L, Kelly C, Mtei K, Mkilema F, Ndakidemi P, Nasseri M, Kalnins A & Patrick A (2021) 'Building Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through Soil Organic Carbon Restoration in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities' Sustainability 13, (19) 10966-10966 , DOI Open access

Yarwood R, Tyrrell N & Kelly C (2021) 'Children, military families and soldier citizenship' Geoforum 126, 253-262 , DOI Open access

Díaz-Rodríguez AM, Kelly C, del Valle A, Bravo-Linares C, Blake W, Velasco H, Meigikos dos Anjos R, Barrera-Hernández LF & de los Santos-Villalobos S (2021) 'Exploring Relationship between Perception Indicators and Mitigation Behaviors of Soil Erosion in Undergraduate Students in Sonora, Mexico' Sustainability 13, (16) 9282-9282 , DOI Open access

Blake WH, Kelly C, Wynants M, Patrick A, Lewin S, Lawson J, Nasolwa E, Page A, Nasseri M & Marks C (2020) 'Integrating land‐water‐people connectivity concepts across disciplines for co‐design of soil erosion solutions' Land Degradation & Development 32, (12) 3415-3430 , DOI Open access

Kelly C, Wynants M, Munishi LK, Nasseri M, Patrick A, Mtei KM, Mkilema F, Rabinovich A, Gilvear D & Wilson G (2020) '‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa' Land 9, (10) 352-352 , DOI Open access

Salvia, Kelly, Wilson & Quaranta (2019) 'A Longitudinal Approach to Examining the Socio-Economic Resilience of the Alento District (Italy) to Land Degradation—1950 to Present' Sustainability 11, (23) 6762-6762 , DOI Open access

Rabinovich A, Kelly C, Wilson G, Nasseri M, Ngondya I, Patrick A, Blake WH, Mtei K, Munishi L & Ndakidemi P (2019) '“We will change whether we want it or not”: Soil erosion in Maasai land as a social dilemma and a challenge to community resilience' Journal of Environmental Psychology 101365-101365 , DOI Open access

Wynants M, Kelly C, Mtei K, Munishi L, Patrick A, Rabinovich A, Nasseri M, Gilvear D, Roberts CN & Boeckx P (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 Open access

Tyrrell N, Sime D, Kelly C & McMellon C (2018) 'Belonging in Brexit Britain: Central and Eastern European 1.5 generation young people's experiences' Population, Space and Place 25, (1) Author Site , DOI Open access

Kelly C & Yarwood RB (2018) 'From rural citizenship to the rural citizen: Farming, dementia and networks of care' Journal of Rural Studies , DOI Open access

Wilson GA, Kelly CL, Briassoulis H, Ferrara A, Quaranta G, Salvia R, Detsis V, Curfs M, Cerda A & El-Aich A (2017) 'Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation' Land Degradation & Development 28, (2) 383-400 , DOI Open access

Salvati L, Kosmas C, Kairis O, Karavitis C, Acikalin S, Belgacem A, Solé-Benet A, Chaker M, Fassouli V & Gokceoglu C (2016) 'Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach' Journal of environmental management Open access

Ferrara A, Kelly C, Wilson GA, Nolè A, Mancino G, Bajocco S & Salvati L (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 Open access

Wilson GA, Quaranta G, Kelly CL, Salvia R & Harmer N (2015) 'Community resilience, land degradation and endogenous lock-in effects: evidence from the Alento region, Campania, Italy' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 59, (3) 518-537 Author Site , DOI Open access

Yarwood R, Sidaway JD, Kelly CL & Stillwell S (2015) 'Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green burials in Britain' The Geographical Journal 181, 172-184 , DOI Open access

Salvati L, Ferrara A, Mancino G, Kelly CL, Chianucci F & Corona P (2015) 'A Multidimensional statistical framework to explore seasonal profile, severity and land-use preferences of wildfires in a Mediterranean country' International Forestry Review Open access

Kelly C, Essex S & Glegg G (2012) 'Reflective practice for marine planning: A case study of marine nature-based tourism partnerships' Marine Policy 36, (3) 769-781 Open access

Kelly C (2012) 'Measuring the performance of partnerships: Why, what, how, when?' Geography Compass 6, (3) 149-162 Open access

Savage VR, Reid CC, Kelly C & Blair A (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

Kelling C (2008) 'Stakeholder dialogues in natural resources management: theory and practice' ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 26, (2) 474-475 Author Site

Kelly C, Glegg GA & Speedie CD (2004) 'Management of marine wildlife disturbance' OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT 47, (1-2) 1-19 Author Site , DOI Open access

Chapters

Kelly C, Cowburn M & McCormack S (2022) 'The people between the Moors: community and continuity in a changing world' in Winter M; Wilkinson T; Lobley M; Fish R The Land Between the Moors: Essays in Culture, Environment and Agricultural Change Devon Beaford 271-294 Open access

Warren M, Kelly C & Nicol L (2022) 'The photographs of James Ravilious: the archive as evidence in documenting rural life and work' in Winter M; Wilkinson T; Lobley M; Fish R The land between the moors: essays in culture, environment and agricultural change Devon Beaford 297-323

Conference Papers

Yarwood R, Tyrrell N & Kelly CL (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 9-/-0/20159-/-0/2015

Kizos T, Kelly CL, Detsis V & Metaxakis M (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 9-/-0/20149-/-0/2014

Kelly CL, Ferrara A, Wilson GA, Ripullone F, Nolè A, Harmer N & Salvati L (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 8-/-0/20138-/-0/2013

Wilson GA, Quaranta G, Kelly CL, Salvia R & Harmer N (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 8-/-0/20138-/-0/2013

Kelly CL, Wilson GA & Kelly CL (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 8-/-0/20119-/-0/2011

Presentations and posters

Kelly C & Brooker I Kelly C & Brooker I ''Recoupling' People and Parks' Open access

Kelly C, Essex S & Glegg G Kelly C, Essex S & Glegg G 'The case for reflective practice in marine planning'

Blake W, Kelly C, Taylor A, Nasseri M, Wynants M, Patrick A, Mkilema F, Munishi L, Mtei K & Ndakidemi P Blake W, Kelly C, Taylor A, Nasseri M, Wynants M, Patrick A, Mkilema F, Munishi L, Mtei K & Ndakidemi P 'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN) to reduce land degradation in East Africa' , DOI

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