Hannah Chiswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4015934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Chiswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiswell |
| SIGNATURE | CHISWELL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4504-1319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of self-monitoring in shifting the cultural acceptability of agri-environmental actions
Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish: A new chapter in an old story
The structure of the agricultural industry has undergone significant change over the last century, both in the UK and internationally, with post-war shifts towards larger and more owner-occupied farms being well recorded. The extent and detail of more recent agricultural restructuring in England deserves close attention because there are important shortcomings in the key source of official data (the Defra June survey), which obscure the realities…
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making: Insights from tree health and fisheries in the United Kingdom
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Developing payment-by-results approaches for agri-environment schemes: Experience from an arable trial in England
Present realities’ and the need for a ‘lived experience’ perspective in Brexit agri-food governance
Brexit poses a significant challenge to the future governance of the UK agri-food sector. Policy decisions that will be made in the next few years will initiate a major new phase of agrarian change and regulation. We are seeing signs of this already in agri-food policy discourse, including scenarios related to food and farming futures post-Brexit. Academic representations of Brexit and agriculture are also mostly futures-orientated. This is impor…
From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer
The transfer of managerial control between generations on the family farm has long been understood as a critical and often problematic phase, with implications for both the individual farm business and more broadly, the sustainability of family farming systems. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with prospective successors and farmers in Devon, England, the article provides a contemporary analysis of the transfer of managerial control on f…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
As long as you're easy on the eye’: Reflecting on issues of positionality and researcher safety during farmer interviews
This reflective paper explores gendered experiences of fieldwork encounters with farmers. Specifically, the paper considers how the particularities of farmer interviews – including the geographical remoteness of many farm holdings, the strength of tradition in farm families and the male‐dominated nature of the industry – pose a unique and challenging prospect for the young and relatively inexperienced female researcher. Drawing on a number of the…
The Battle of the Fields: Rural Community and Authority in Britain During the Second World War
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
The value of the 1941–1943 National Farm Survey as a method for engagement with farmers in contemporary research
This article proposes the use of National Farm Survey ( NFS ) data and maps as a resource to support interviews with farmers and their families, across a wide range of geographical topics. The paper explores the origins of the NFS and evaluates its use as a reconstructive tool. Drawing directly on its use in recent empirical research into family farm succession as an example, the paper details the methodology, including the development of a Geogr…
The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus
Intergenerational succession is understood as an integral facet of the family farm. The importance of the succession process and more specifically, successor identification, are critically discussed in the context of the widely propagated projections of global population growth and associated demands on the agricultural sector. Having established the merits of successor identification, the article then highlights the absence of the 'potential suc…
As long as you're easy on the eye’: Reflecting on issues of positionality and researcher safety during farmer interviews
This reflective paper explores gendered experiences of fieldwork encounters with farmers. Specifically, the paper considers how the particularities of farmer interviews – including the geographical remoteness of many farm holdings, the strength of tradition in farm families and the male‐dominated nature of the industry – pose a unique and challenging prospect for the young and relatively inexperienced female researcher. Drawing on a number of the…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer
The transfer of managerial control between generations on the family farm has long been understood as a critical and often problematic phase, with implications for both the individual farm business and more broadly, the sustainability of family farming systems. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with prospective successors and farmers in Devon, England, the article provides a contemporary analysis of the transfer of managerial control on f…
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus
Intergenerational succession is understood as an integral facet of the family farm. The importance of the succession process and more specifically, successor identification, are critically discussed in the context of the widely propagated projections of global population growth and associated demands on the agricultural sector. Having established the merits of successor identification, the article then highlights the absence of the 'potential suc…
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making: Insights from tree health and fisheries in the United Kingdom
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Developing payment-by-results approaches for agri-environment schemes: Experience from an arable trial in England
Present realities’ and the need for a ‘lived experience’ perspective in Brexit agri-food governance
Brexit poses a significant challenge to the future governance of the UK agri-food sector. Policy decisions that will be made in the next few years will initiate a major new phase of agrarian change and regulation. We are seeing signs of this already in agri-food policy discourse, including scenarios related to food and farming futures post-Brexit. Academic representations of Brexit and agriculture are also mostly futures-orientated. This is impor…
The role of self-monitoring in shifting the cultural acceptability of agri-environmental actions
Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish: A new chapter in an old story
The structure of the agricultural industry has undergone significant change over the last century, both in the UK and internationally, with post-war shifts towards larger and more owner-occupied farms being well recorded. The extent and detail of more recent agricultural restructuring in England deserves close attention because there are important shortcomings in the key source of official data (the Defra June survey), which obscure the realities…
The value of the 1941–1943 National Farm Survey as a method for engagement with farmers in contemporary research
This article proposes the use of National Farm Survey ( NFS ) data and maps as a resource to support interviews with farmers and their families, across a wide range of geographical topics. The paper explores the origins of the NFS and evaluates its use as a reconstructive tool. Drawing directly on its use in recent empirical research into family farm succession as an example, the paper details the methodology, including the development of a Geogr…
The Importance of Next Generation Farmers: A Conceptual Framework to Bring the Potential Successor into Focus
Intergenerational succession is understood as an integral facet of the family farm. The importance of the succession process and more specifically, successor identification, are critically discussed in the context of the widely propagated projections of global population growth and associated demands on the agricultural sector. Having established the merits of successor identification, the article then highlights the absence of the 'potential suc…
The Battle of the Fields: Rural Community and Authority in Britain During the Second World War
A Recruitment Crisis in Agriculture? A Reply to H eike F ischer and R ob J . F . B urton's Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
This short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, ‘Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles’, featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis . Broadly the article commends the concept of ‘socially constructed endogenous cycles’ as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerati…
As long as you're easy on the eye’: Reflecting on issues of positionality and researcher safety during farmer interviews
This reflective paper explores gendered experiences of fieldwork encounters with farmers. Specifically, the paper considers how the particularities of farmer interviews – including the geographical remoteness of many farm holdings, the strength of tradition in farm families and the male‐dominated nature of the industry – pose a unique and challenging prospect for the young and relatively inexperienced female researcher. Drawing on a number of the…
Present realities’ and the need for a ‘lived experience’ perspective in Brexit agri-food governance
Brexit poses a significant challenge to the future governance of the UK agri-food sector. Policy decisions that will be made in the next few years will initiate a major new phase of agrarian change and regulation. We are seeing signs of this already in agri-food policy discourse, including scenarios related to food and farming futures post-Brexit. Academic representations of Brexit and agriculture are also mostly futures-orientated. This is impor…
From Generation to Generation: Changing Dimensions of Intergenerational Farm Transfer
The transfer of managerial control between generations on the family farm has long been understood as a critical and often problematic phase, with implications for both the individual farm business and more broadly, the sustainability of family farming systems. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with prospective successors and farmers in Devon, England, the article provides a contemporary analysis of the transfer of managerial control on f…
It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society
This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential suc…
Developing payment-by-results approaches for agri-environment schemes: Experience from an arable trial in England
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making: Insights from tree health and fisheries in the United Kingdom
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish: A new chapter in an old story
The structure of the agricultural industry has undergone significant change over the last century, both in the UK and internationally, with post-war shifts towards larger and more owner-occupied farms being well recorded. The extent and detail of more recent agricultural restructuring in England deserves close attention because there are important shortcomings in the key source of official data (the Defra June survey), which obscure the realities…
The role of self-monitoring in shifting the cultural acceptability of agri-environmental actions
Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Rural development and sustainability (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)