Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2019-2020
Geran-Marko Miletić
Insitute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
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PhD Raili Nugin
Tallinn University, Estonia
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Katarzyna Andrejuk
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2018-2019
Dr. Petr Jehlicka
The Open University, UK
Dr. Hannah Chiswell
CCRI University of Gloucestershire, UK
Dr. Liga Paula
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2017-2018
Professor Richard Yarwood
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Plymouth University, UK
Dementia, Welfare and Citizenship in Rural Places
Dr. Adam Czarnecki
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Successful second-home tourism: Efficient and inclusive community governance models
Dr. Samantha Hillyard
Durham University, UK
Dr. Francisco Navarro
University of Granada, Spain
Transnational cooperation projects in neoendogenous rural development actions
Dr. Sara Walton
University of Otago, New Zealand
Dr. Elize Van Eeden
Norh-West University, South Africa
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2016–2017
Dr. Gun Lidestav
SLU, Umeå, Sweden
Dr. Ifigeneia Douvitsa
Law school, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Analysis of the Sources of Public International Cooperative Law, with an emphasis on Case Law.
Dr. Murray Knuttila
Brock University, Canada
Is the Family Farm and Endangered Species? Implications for Rural Men.
Dr. Ruta Spiewak
Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Poland
Food cooperatives: between local initiatives and global social movement.
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2015–2016
Örjan Furtenback
Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Umeå, Sweden
Where should we allocate new forest reserves? Regional welfare impacts of different allocation rules.
Marie Mahon
Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
The role of the arts, culture and creativity in a rural context.
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2014–2015
Agatha Herman
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Food politics and ethics
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Lif Rødtness Vesterby Knudsen
Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Postpartum uterine diseases in dairy cows
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Esther Muniz
University of Vallodolid, Spain
Renewal of agrifood law
Artur Steiner
Scotland's Rural College, United Kingdom
Social and economic aspects of rural life including evaluations of community-related interventions and grass-root initiatives.
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Kadri Ukrainski
University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Estonia)
The role of users (customers) as a source of innovation
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X. Lourdes Xavier Wilson
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (India)
Leveraging the Food Security through Cooperatives in Finland
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Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2013–2014
Francisco Diaz Bretones
University of Granada (Spain)
Emerging Cooperatives and Corporate Social Responsibility
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Maria Letícia Galluzzi-Bizzo
Universidade do Brasil (Brazil)
The international rural agenda of the 1930 - 1940s: The role of international organizations
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Agatha Herman
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Climate Change and Food Justice
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Colin R. Johnson
Indiana University, Department of Gender Studies, United States
Sexual minorities in rural regions of Finland and the United States
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Egil Petter Straete
Centre for Rural Research, University Centre Dragvoll, Trondheim, Norway
Food qualities as a basis for differentiation through innovation in food supply chains
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2012–2013
Adrian Morley
Cardiff University, The ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS) (United Kingdom)
Sustainable food chains
Alexander Nikulin
Center for agrarian studies, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under President of Russian Federation, Moscow (Russia)
Sustainable rural communities in Russia
Julie Smith
Centre for Food Policy, City University London (United Kingdom)
Traditional food markets in Europe
Ruralia Institute Visiting Scholars 2011–2012
Alexandra Franklin
Places Research Institute (PLACE), Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
Sustainable Place-Making: Building Rural Community Resilience
Katalin Kovács
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies (Hungary)
Rural Governance and development in Finland and Hungary
David Watts
School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
Hunting tourism in Northern Europe