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- felipe.dasilvamachado@plymouth.ac.uk

Profiles
Mr Felipe da Silva Machado
Teaching & Support Assistant
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
I have concluded my PhD research within the Human Geography Department at University of Plymouth (2015-2019), investigating the metropolitan countryside and farming resilience in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The PhD study explores farmers’ strategies and networks and highlights the importance of sharing, building knowledges, and learning practices in a global era. During my Undergraduate and Masters in Geography at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, I specialized in Rural Geography, exploring the themes of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Brazilian context and socio-spatial restructuring of metropolitan regions at the rural-urban interface.
Qualifications
PhD in Human Geography, University of Plymouth
MSc Geography, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
BSc Geography, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Professional membership
Roles on external bodies
Postgraduate Representative of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) (2018-2019)
Ordinary Member of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) (2019-2022)
Research interests
Grants & contracts
2015-2019 Fully funded PhD student of the Brazilian Federal Agency for Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Ministry of Education of Brazil (ca £115.000).
2019 Travel Grant awarded by the Royal Geographical Society Rural Geography Research Group to attend the Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers, Vermont, US (£300).
2019 Travel Grant awarded by the Royal Geographical Society Rural Geography Research Group to attend the Royal Geographical Society Postgraduate Mid-term Conference, Manchester, UK (£133).
2019 Travel Stipend Award for the International Geographical Union Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems (IGU-CSRS) Colloquium, Minnesota, US (£400).
Machado, F.S. Globalization, family farming and social resilience in the Brazilian metropolitan context and beyond. In: X Abep-UK (Association of Brazilian Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom) Annual Conference, London, UK, 2018.
Machado, F.S. When a rural geographer goes back from fieldwork research: evaluating an academic partnership with farming communities in Rio's hinterland (Brazil). In: The Postgraduate Society Research Showcase, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK, 2018.
Machado, F.S. Farming resilience in the context of globalization: the case of Rio's hinterland (Brazil). In: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, US, 2018.
Machado, F.S. Globalization in a rural context: addressing contemporary rural paradigm in Brazil. In: Sustainable Earth 2017: a global forum connecting research with action, Plymouth, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. Going back to the land through WWOOF (World Wide Opportunity on Organic Farm): exploring rural change in the era of globalization. In: Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) Postgraduate Winter School - In association with University of Gloucestershire, Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, Gloucestershire, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. Understanding rural resilience in globalization: (multiple) approaches, methods, and scale analysis. In: Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) Postgraduate Winter School - In association with University of Gloucestershire, Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, Gloucestershire, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. Rural restructuring, social resilience, and globalization: examining the global countryside in Brazil. In: IX Abep-UK (Association of Brazilian Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom) Annual Conference, London, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. Going back to Brazil for fieldwork: researching the rural on the ground. In: The Postgraduate Society Research Showcase, Plymouth University, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. Researching rural resilience in the era of globalization: evidence from Brazil. Hunch, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, UK, 2017.
Machado, F.S. (Re) positioning rural geography in globalization: from a political economy approach to contemporary debates. In: XXI Plymouth University Postgraduate Society Conference, Plymouth, UK, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Rural transition in transition economies (Brazil): theories surrounding global rural change. In: XI Plymouth Doctoral Colloquium, Plymouth, UK, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Rural restructuring and conflict of land use in the context of globalization: theoretical issues concerning rural policies in developing countries (Brazil). In: International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use, Budapest, Hungary, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Global multifunctional countryside: debates concerning rural change in transition economies (Brazil). In: Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) Postgraduate Winter School - In association with University of Gloucestershire, Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, Cheltenham, UK, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Rural restructuring in the context of economic globalization: the differentiated countryside in Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil). In: Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Postgraduate Forum Mid-term Conference, Newcastle, UK, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Rural Geography and globalization: building a theoretical approach from Brazil in the contemporary world. In: VIII ABEP Conference (Association of Brazilian Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom), King's College London, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Organic agriculture and volunteering in South West England (UK): participatory action research in the context of the global countryside. In: XXIV Annual Colloquium of the IGU (International Geographical Union) Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems, Liège, Belgium, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Rural restructuring, conflict of land use, and spatial diversity: the complexity of the countryside in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area (Brazil). In: International Conference on Land Use and Rural Sustainability, 2016, Xi'an, China, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Beyond soybean fields: rural diversity and resilience in Grande Dourados Region, Central-Western Brazil. In: XXXIII International Geographical Congress (IGU-UGI), Beijing, China, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Multifunctionality, resilience, and globalization: building a theoretical perspective from Brazil in the context of rural change. In: XXXIII International Geographical Congress (IGU-UGI), Beijing, China, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Geography of rural change: the Brazilian countryside in the context of global multifunctionality. In: Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers - Annual International Conference, London, 2016.
Machado, F. S. When I was a volunteer on organic farms: exploring empirical knowledge in the contemporary rural. In: The Postgraduate Society Research Showcase, Plymouth University, Plymouth, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Multifuncionalidade na dinâmica recente do espaço rural no estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). In: XVIII Colóquio de Geografia Rural e I Colóquio Internacional de Geografia Rural, Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, Ciudad Real, Spain, 2016.
Machado, F.S. Transitions in the global countryside: contemporary debates surrounding rural change. In: XIX Plymouth University Postgraduate Society Conference, Plymouth, 2015.
Conferences attended 2015-2019
Postgraduate Research Showcase, University of Plymouth, UK, 2019.
Cambridge Global Food Security Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK, 2019.
Royal Geographical Society Postgraduate Mid-term Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2019.
Grow Green: Farming for a Plant-Strong Future, British Library, UK, 2019.
Integrating Food into Urban Planning, University College London, UK, 2019.
International Conference Fifty Years of Local Governance, International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.
Brazilian Regionalism in a Global Context Workshop, University of Birmingham, UK, 2018.
Grassroots to Global: Development from Below Conference, Coventry University, UK, 2018.
Building Sustainable Food Futures: global and local action to overcome today's system failures, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2018.
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, US, 2018.
The Postgraduate Society Research Showcase, Plymouth University, UK, 2018.
Additional information
A leading motivation for my research is to contribute to growing social and political awareness of the complex global and local impacts of food decisions on rural landscapes and communities, through enhancing conceptual and practical understandings of how communities and governments can work collaboratively to nurture a multifunctional and sustainable global countryside.