How have livestock production practices changed? Who or what has influenced these changes? Our interactive timeline of key events in British Agriculture history is now live and helps to address some of these questions.
Following the award of a Research Enrichment – Public Engagement grant from the Wellcome Trust we have now recruited three creative practitioners to take up residency with FIELD over the next 6-12 months.
We are hiring three creative arts professionals to come and work in residence with us on the FIELD project.
The FIELD projects’ successful application for an Enrichment Fund award from the Wellcome Trust means the team can recruit three creative arts professionals to contribute to the project.
COVID-19 brought an immediate end to the on-farm fieldwork for the social science cluster. The team’s discussions around biosecurity and disease modelling now extends to their own lives, and not just those of the farmers and the animals they would speak to on fieldwork visits. Here, social scientist Lewis Holloway discusses how the biosecurity measures imposed as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown have shifted thinking on the project’s research topic.