Overview

Caroline Nye is a Research Fellow and social scientist at the Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR), University of Exeter. Her research interests include agricultural labour, farmer collaboration and landscape-scale farmer groups (Farmer Clusters), livestock marts and social responsibiliy, and the social drivers of antimicrobial resistance in rural communities. Caroline is also interested in farmer health and wellbeing and the social issues surrounding uptake of technologies in agriculture.

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Research

Caroline has a broad range of research interests, the most current of which include:

• Agricultural labour
• Farmer collaboration and landscape-scale farmer groups (Farmer Clusters)
• Livestock marts and social responsibiliy
• The social drivers of antimicrobial resistance in rural communities
• Farmer health and wellbeing
• The social issues surrounding uptake of technologies in agriculture

She has been involved in a number of broad ranging projects including leading an examination of the impact of community pharmacies on equine welfare in India for the global team at The Donkey Sanctuary, a scoping study and evaluation/reccommendation report for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, a Defra project researching the usage of risk management tools by land managers, and an empirical study of landscape-scale nature conservation groups (Farmer Clusters) for the Game and Wildlife Trust (GWCT). She is currently working on a project for the Prince's Countryside Trust, looking at social responsibility and livestock auction marts.

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Projects

• Production of comprehensive labour market information for the agricultural and horticultural sectors - funded by: TIAH
• Future Farming Resilience Fund Interim Phase Evaluation - funded by: DEFRA (via Ipsos MORI)
• Understanding Public Food Procurement in the HotSW region - funded by: Devon County Council
• Farming resilience: civil society's role in supporting vulnerable rural communities through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic - funded by: ESRC UKRI Covid Rapid Response
• A Helping Hand. Alternative sources of agricultural labour for farms in the U.K. - funded by: The Worshipful Company of Farmers and the John Oldacre Foundation
• Rural isolation and COVID-19: Faith, worship and social contact - funded by: ARC (Arthur Rank Centre)
• The Prince’s Countryside Fund: Livestock Auction Marts Research Project - funded by: The Prince's Countryside Fund and the John Oldacre Foundation Endowment

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Publications

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2023

• Nye C, Wheeler R. (2023) ‘I’ve Got Nothing Against Vegans… But’: To Divulge, Dissemble or Divert Positionality in Rural Research Settings, Food Ethics, volume 8, no. 2, DOI:10.1007/s41055-023-00128-4.
• Watson T, Kubasiewicz LM, Nye C, Thapa S, Chamberlain N, Burden FA. (2023) The welfare and access to veterinary health services of mules working the mountain trails in the Gorkha region, Nepal, Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, volume 55, no. 1, pages 9-22, DOI:10.4067/s0719-81322023000100009.
• Kubasiewicz LM, Watson T, Norris SL, Chamberlain N, Nye C, Perumal RK, Saroja R, Raw Z, Burden FA. (2023) Erratum: ERRATUM: One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India (Animal Welfare (2022) 31:4 (517–528) DOI: 10.1017/S0962728600032504), Animal Welfare, volume 32, DOI:10.1017/awf.2023.14.
• Kubasiewicz LM, Watson T, Nye C, Chamberlain N, Perumal RK, Saroja R, Norris SL, Raw Z, Burden FA. (2023) Bonded labour and donkey ownership in the brick kilns of India: A need for reform of policy and practice, Animal Welfare, volume 32, DOI:10.1017/awf.2023.1.
• Rose DC, Budge H, Carolan M, Hall J, Hammersley C, Knook J, Lobley M, Nye C, O'Reilly A, Shortland F. (2023) Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support, Sociologia Ruralis, volume 63, no. S1, pages 3-10, DOI:10.1111/soru.12425.
• Nye C, Winter M, Lobley M. (2023) Farmers Supporting Farmers: Livestock Auctions as Spaces to Reconstruct Occupational Community and Counter Mental Health Issues, Journal of Agromedicine, volume 28, no. 3, pages 401-414, DOI:10.1080/1059924x.2023.2176959. [PDF]
• Kubasiewicz LM, Watson T, Norris SL, Chamberlain N, Nye C, Perumal RK, Saroja R, Raw Z, Burden FA. (2023) One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India, Animal Welfare, volume 31, no. 4, pages 517-528, DOI:10.1017/s0962728600032504. [PDF]
• Shortland F, Hall J, Hurley P, Little R, Nye C, Lobley M, Rose DC. (2023) Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis, SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS, volume 63, pages 116-140, DOI:10.1111/soru.12414. [PDF]
• Rose DC, Shortland F, Hall J, Hurley P, Little R, Nye C, Lobley M. (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Farmers' Mental Health: A Case Study of the UK, J Agromedicine, volume 28, no. 3, pages 346-364, DOI:10.1080/1059924X.2022.2137616. [PDF]

2022

• Watson T, Kubasiewicz LM, Nye C, Thapa S, Norris SL, Chamberlain N, Burden FA. (2022) "Not All Who Wander Are Lost": The Life Transitions and Associated Welfare of Pack Mules Walking the Trails in the Mountainous Gorkha Region, Nepal, Animals (Basel), volume 12, no. 22, DOI:10.3390/ani12223152. [PDF]
• Broomfield C, Nye C, Wells R. (2022) Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press, Journal of Rural Studies, volume 95, pages 423-437, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.09.033.
• Nye C, Winter M, Lobley M. (2022) The role of the livestock auction mart in promoting help-seeking behavior change among farmers in the UK, BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, volume 22, no. 1, article no. ARTN 1581, DOI:10.1186/s12889-022-13958-4. [PDF]

2021

• Nye C, Watson T, Kubasiewicz LM, Raw Z, Burden F. (2021) ‘Don’t Put the Cart before the Mule!’ Challenging Assumptions Regarding Health-Related Treatment Practices of Working Equid Owners in Northern India, Animals, volume 11, no. 5, pages 1307-1307, DOI:10.3390/ani11051307. [PDF]
• Nye C. (2021) The farm worker and the ‘drift to the land’. Roots, routes, opportunities and constraints to career pathways in farming, Journal of Rural Studies, volume 83, pages 201-214, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.11.004. [PDF]

2020

• Nye C. (2020) Agriculture's ‘other’ contingent labour source. Agricultural contractors and relationships of interdependence at the farmer-contractor interface, Journal of Rural Studies, volume 78, pages 223-233, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.06.031. [PDF]
• Nye C, Watson T, Kubasiewicz L, Raw Z, Burden F. (2020) No Prescription, No Problem! A Mixed-Methods Study of Antimicrobial Stewardship Relating to Working Equines in Drug Retail Outlets of Northern India, Antibiotics, volume 9, no. 6, pages 295-295, DOI:10.3390/antibiotics9060295. [PDF]
• Watson TL, Kubasiewicz LM, Chamberlain N, Nye C, Raw Z, Burden FA. (2020) Cultural “Blind Spots,” Social Influence and the Welfare of Working Donkeys in Brick Kilns in Northern India, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, volume 7, DOI:10.3389/fvets.2020.00214. [PDF]

2018

• Nye C. (2018) The ‘blind spot’ of agricultural research: Labour flexibility, composition and worker availability in the South West of England, Cahiers Agricultures, volume 27, no. 3, pages 35002-35002, DOI:10.1051/cagri/2018018. [PDF]

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Biography

Caroline Nye completed her PhD in rural sociology/politics at the Univeristy of Exeter in 2017. Her thesis focussed on agricultural labour in the UK, contributing an original analysis of the composition of contemporary labour in the South West of England, as well as examining social, attitudinal, and behavioural changes that have arisen from transformations in the agricultural labour situation over the last fifty years.

Caroline holds an MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and a Diploma in International Development from the University of London/London School of Economics, with a focus on environment. She has also spent several years working further afield on international development projects and in industry in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Caroline speaks fluent Spanish.

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More information

Member of the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS)

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