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NEWSLETTER 1999 |
THE ARKLETON TRUST
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Other NewsTalking about websites, last year we told you that we were making an effort to modernise by getting the Enstone office on the internet. This augments our past activities in the Arkleton Centre's discussion lists Arkleton, Arktel and Reaper which many of you have joined, not to mention our previous work in piloting Rurtel, one of the first rural computer conferencing systems, back in the 1980's. We are now planning to have our own website - hopefully before the end of this year. With publishing/postage costs spiralling we wondered how many of you would prefer to receive news of our Trust and our Newsletters, Seminar Reports etc via the web? We have included a line on the 'Change of Address' page at the back of this Newsletter and perhaps you could help us by letting us have your comments. [The form is available on-line via a link from the main News page].The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at the University of Aberdeen goes from strength to strength, and has now appointed all but one of its seven new core research fellows. In addition, it has two EU projects funded under the Northern Peripheries Programme covering Scandinavia and Scotland, and two new EU research projects funded under the Framework Programme, as well as sundry others. These other research activities mean that the Centre will have about 20 research and support staff by the end of this year. The Centre has jointly organised a conference with the Research Institute for Irish-Scottish Studies on Land Reform in Scotland in April, prior to the Scottish elections. It is jointly organising a conference on Rural Development and the Scottish Parliament with the Department of Agriculture at Aberdeen University in November 1999. Finally, it is planning a major conference on European Rural Policy at the Crossroads in June 2000, to link with the start of the Millennium Trade Round. John Bryden submitted a 'Memorandum To The Agriculture Committee Of The House Of Commons On The Proposed Rural Development Regulation Published As Part Of The European Commission's Agenda 2000 Proposals' in September 1998, and was invited to give oral evidence to the Committee. Both were later published with the report of the Committee. The Centre has its own web pages with details of staff, research and other activities which can be accessed through: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/ . The Centre will be issuing its own newsletter, both on-line and in hard copy, later in the year. John Bryden remains Programme Director of the Trust in a part-time capacity, and is co-Director of the Arkleton Centre. In the past year he was also advisor to the Land Reform Policy Group and the Rural Affairs Group at the Scottish Office, and a member of the Policy Advisory Forum of the Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture.
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