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Research interests
My research has always broadly related to food and farming, whether it concerns using the countryside for environmental education, rural livelihoods, or nutrient balances in farming systems. A key theme underpinning all of my research concerns the process of public participation in science, and transdsiciplinary research involving collaboration between academic researchers and practitioners. My research comes under the following themes:
Environmental education and public understanding of science. Current research focuses on outdoor learning and the relationships between children and nature. Fieldwork concerns educational access and forest school programmes which connect farming and countryside management to educational opportunities. I held a British Science Association media fellowship in 2008, working with BBC radio 4, and have written about science and the media.
Interdisciplinary and Research Practices, incorporating issues of transdisciplinarity and participatory research. Interdisciplinary research methods underpin much of my research on natural resource management in developing countries, and were the focus of DEFRA and ESRC-RELU research projects in the UK. Currently I am working on a grant form the ESRC funded Nexus programme concerning Transdiscplinary environmental research at the food, water, energy and environment nexus: a review of approaches to knowledge co-production. See http://www.thenexusnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Harris-and-Lyon_pg.pdf
Natural Resource Management, where my interests cover community-based natural resource management, sustainable livelihoods, peri-urban agriculture, soil fertility management in smallholder farming systems, and crop-livestock integration. Farmer-participatory research methods have been employed in fieldwork in the UK, and also developing countries, particularly Nigeria but also other areas of semi-arid west Africa and India, Brazil, Zimbabwe.
Building Resilience. Transdisciplinary research project funded by Global Challenges Research Fund looking at Building Resilience to Cataclysmic Events (BRACE). for further information see http://www.bracebhutan.org/
External positions
External Examiner, University of Gloucestershire
30 Sept 2013 → 31 Aug 2017
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Projects
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BRACE: BRACE: Building Bhutanese Resilience Against Cataclysmic Events
9/01/17 → 28/02/18
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Practitioners’ perspectives on children’s engagement in Forest School
Harris, F., 3 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Education 3 to 13. p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Forest School
Harris, F., 6 Oct 2022, In: CABI Reviews. 17, 041, 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Nature Connection
Harris, F., Loynes, C. & Freeman, E., 5 Aug 2021, Outdoor Environmental Education in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Thomas, G., Dyment, J. & Prince, H. (eds.). 1st ed. Springer NatureResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school
Harris, F., 18 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environmental Education Research. 27, 8, p. 1214-1228 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transdisciplinary Research Priorities for Human and Planetary Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Harris, F., 30 Nov 2020, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). 17, 23, 5 p., 8890.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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