Dr Catherine Broomfield
2025
Catherine works at the Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter. Her main research interest is understanding social factors influencing farming’s relationship with wider society, focusing on the role of in-person engagement between farming and nonfarming people in building relationships that underpin farmers’ social licence to operate. Before turning to academic research, she farmed 100% pasture-fed beef and sheep on her farm in Devon. She is a PfL Board member.
My Sessions
Optimising the potential of farmer-scientist collaboration
This session moves the discussion about collaborative research beyond its well-rehearsed and widely accepted benefits to focus on the changes needed to UK research funding culture to enable optimal and equal status farmer-scientist collaboration that starts from the first discussion of research need and design. Building on a collaborative project between Rothamsted and PFL, this […]