Other Projects
Ongoing Projects
The Lakeland Shepherds' Guide 2025
I am really excited to be working with the Federation of Cumbria Commoners and hill farmers of the Lake District on the development of the 2025 Lakeland Shepherd's Guide.
During this project, I will develop a collaborative piece of research with families of hill farmers across Lakeland, to discuss the changes they have seen to their farms, flocks and fells over the last 40 years, and those changes they anticipate are yet to come. Find out more on the Lakeland Shepherds Guide website!
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Digital Ecologies
Following participation in their inaugural workshop in 2021, I am delighted to have become a team member in the Digital Ecologies Research Group. This collective of early-career researchers aims to explore the connections between more-than-human geographies, political ecology and the digital humanities.
Find out more about our work at digicologies.com
Grazing for Good in Upland Landscapes
The Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association, Federation of Cumbria Commoners, and West Lakeland CIC have launched a farmer-led initiative to examine how current policy on stocking rates and land management affects the Lakeland Fells. In partnership with national bodies and leading researchers, the project brings together farmers, ecologists, and policymakers to explore how future policy can better support both upland farming and nature recovery.
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Some Recent Publications
Book Chapters
Dodsworth, J., Lasko, R., Little, R. (2024). 'Stick your wellies on: messy development and co-design processes with England’s new Environmental Land Management (ELM) policy' in Nick C. H. Reid and Rhiannon Smith (eds). Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding. Cambridge: Burleigh Dodds.
Academic Journal Articles
Turnbull, J., Searle, A., Hartman Davies, O., Dodsworth, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., Von Essen, E. and Anderson-Elliott, H. (2022). Digital ecologies: Materialities, encounters, governance. Progress in Environmental Geography.
Cusworth, G., Dodsworth, J. (2021). Using the ‘good farmer’ concept to explore agricultural attitudes to the provision of public goods. A case study of participants in an English agri-environment scheme. Agriculture and Human Values.
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Van Patter, L., Turnbull, J., Dodsworth, J. (Forthcoming 2021). “More-than-human Collaborations” for Hacking the Anthropocene. Feral Feminisms 10.
Reports
Dodsworth, J., Prager, K. (2021). Farmers’ Experiences of RBAPS in Wensleydale: Changing Management Practices and Perceptions of Environmental Public Goods. Contracts2.0.
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Dodsworth, J., Dutilly, C., Guédé, S., K. Prager, K. (2020). Complexities in Collective Approaches: Traditional Management and Agri-Environmental Contracting in the Pyrenees (France) and Northwest England (UK). Contracts2.0.