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RSx : Rural Science explore
I first developed the idea behind this website when I was doing an MSc in Information and library Studies at Aberystwyth University. There seemed to me to be a gulf between the research literature and the practitioner whether that practitioner was a farmer, a consultant, teacher, student or whoever. My first attempt at bridging the gap was the first rural-science.co.uk website, now defunct. My second attempt was the blog and website I developed when working with Land, Life & Leisure, the rural information database. This was Land Life & Leisure explore.
This new website continues the quest I began in the other two. It is an attempt to bridge that gap between research and practice. But it is also something more.
There is another gap.
This is the gap between us ordinary people living our ordinary (urban) lives and the land we live on and on which we all depend. Most of the time we don’t give it a thought. I hope this website will help reconnect us to the land.
So the website is about reconnecting. Reconnecting science and practitioners. Reconnecting people and land.
As it says: explore!
Rural Science explore - the website
Two domain names resolve to this site:
- rural-science.co.uk
- landlifeleisure.co.uk
Keep checking for new posts.
Rural Science explore
Rural Science explore is about the land: from those apparently mundane aspects of farming on which we all depend to the wonders of the landscape
Rural Science explore is about life: a celebration of wildlife from the acorn to the oak tree, from the tadpole to the tiger; and about us, the people, and the ways in which we work and live together on the land
Rural Science explore is about leisure: all the ways in which we enjoy and interact with the land and its life
explore!
Rural Science explore brings together the best of science and practice – with a little something extra in the mix.
Rural Science explore has been developed to support the Land, Life & Leisure database.
Land, Life & Leisure database
- The database is compiled at Aberystwyth University and hosted on the web by EDINA at Edinburgh University.
- The database is a subscription service. See the EDINA website for more information.
- See older Land, Life & Leisure explore webpages here.
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