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Profiles
Dr Claire Kelly
Senior Research Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
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
(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
(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
(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
(2018) 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(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 , DOI Open access
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Personal Tutor
- Social Science research methods
Research
Research
Research interests
I am a senior member of staff, leading and collaborating on a range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects in the Peninsula Medical School (Quality Excellence Unit) and the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. As a social scientist, my research interests focus on people, their experiences and their relationships to place across a range of contexts. Specifically, my expertise spans resilience; participatory co-design for sustainable solutions to complex challenges; partnership working, governance and public engagement with science. I have a particular passion for collaborativelty developing research and engagement methods with creatives and arts practitioners.
Grants & contracts
2022 - Arts Council England: Earth, Water, Fire! Exploring climate change science with rural North Devon communities, creating a performance storytelling piece. £28,000
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.
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.
Creative practice & artistic projects
Earth, Water, Fire! Exploring today's land through our ancestors' eyes. A performance storytelling piece with music and film, toured through Beaford Arts rural touring programme, Spring 2023. https://vimeo.com/856001251?share=copy
Publications
Publications
Key publications
(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
(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
(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
(2018) 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(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 , DOI Open access
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2024) 'Basin scale sources of siltation in a contaminated hydropower reservoir' Science of The Total Environment , DOI Open access
(2023) 'Unravelling and understanding local perceptions of water quality in the Santa basin, Peru' Journal of Hydrology , DOI Open access
(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
(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
(2021) 'Children, military families and soldier citizenship' Geoforum 126, 253-262 , DOI Open access
(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
(2021) 'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN) to reduce land degradation in East Africa' , DOI
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(2018) 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Belonging in Brexit Britain: Central and Eastern European 1.5 generation young people's experiences' Population, Space and Place 25, (1) , DOI Open access
(2018) 'From rural citizenship to the rural citizen: Farming, dementia and networks of care' Journal of Rural Studies , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation' Land Degradation & Development 28, (2) 383-400 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach' Journal of environmental management Open access
(2015) '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
(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 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green
burials in Britain' The Geographical Journal 181, 172-184 , DOI Open access
(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
(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
(2012) 'Reflective practice for marine planning: A case study of marine nature-based tourism partnerships' Marine Policy 36, (3) 769-781 Open access
(2012) 'Measuring the performance of partnerships: Why, what, how, when?' Geography Compass 6, (3) 149-162 Open access
(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
(2004) 'Management of marine wildlife disturbance' OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT 47, (1-2) 1-19 , DOI Open access
Reviews
(2008) 'Stakeholder dialogues in natural resources management: theory and practice' ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 26, (2) 474-475
Chapters
(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
(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
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 9-/-0/20159-/-0/2015
(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 9-/-0/20149-/-0/2014
(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 8-/-0/20138-/-0/2013
(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 8-/-0/20138-/-0/2013
(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 8-/-0/20119-/-0/2011
Presentations and posters
''Recoupling' People and Parks' Open access
'The case for reflective practice in marine planning'
'Soils, Science and Community ActioN (SoilSCAN) to reduce land degradation in East Africa' , DOI
'Citizen-led water quality data collection: Experiences from the Santa River basin, Peru' , DOI Open access
'Novel use of portable gamma sensors to rapidly assess soil status and recovery in degraded East African agro-pastoral land' , DOI Open access
Personal
Personal
Other academic activities
I'm a Trustee, and Archive Steering Group Member at Beaford Arts and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Nelson Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology, Tanzania.
Links
Plymouth Alumni profile: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/alumni-friends/alumni/meet-our-alumni/marine-earth-geography-environment/dr-claire-kelly
NM-AIST Faculty of Business Studies and Humanities: https://www.nm-aist.ac.tz/index.php/schools/bush2
Ardhi na Kujifunza Project: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-environment-and-society-ceres/ardhi-na-kujifunza-land-and-learning
Jali Ardhi project: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/may/04/soil-erosion-in-tanzania-in-pictures
Beaford Archive: https://beaford.org/archive
NM-AIST Faculty of Business Studies and Humanities: https://www.nm-aist.ac.tz/index.php/schools/bush2
Ardhi na Kujifunza Project: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-environment-and-society-ceres/ardhi-na-kujifunza-land-and-learning
Jali Ardhi project: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/may/04/soil-erosion-in-tanzania-in-pictures
Beaford Archive: https://beaford.org/archive