Mark Shucksmith OBE is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University, Visiting Professor at Ruralis, Trondheim and a Trustee of ACRE and the Carnegie UK Trust. Jayne Glass is Researcher in the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development group in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ CIC, a social enterprise business consultancy which also operates Impact Hub Inverness, a co-working space that is part of the global Impact Hub network. Jane Atterton is Senior Lecturer and Manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland’s Rural College.
A significant and urgently needed study. The authors do a brilliant job of getting under the skin of the rural idyll and revealing the extent of rural poverty in Britain today. Sarah Neal, University of Sheffield This important book makes visible the diversity, experience and widespread scale of rural poverty in the UK. All those responsible for the design and practice of welfare support systems should read this book and feel ashamed. A must-read for all those committed to redesigning fairer and kinder ways of providing welfare support. Patsy Healey, Newcastle University and author of Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England An essential and timely primer on the dynamics and experiences of rural poverty. Through a prism of financial hardship, this richly evidenced book explores poverty in place, with important insights for policy and practice. Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University