Lee-ann Sutherland
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Lee-Ann Sutherland is senior researcher working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group. Raised on a family farm in Canada, she is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background European agrarian development, human-environment relations, and farm-level decision-making. Her current work on gentrification processes in agricultural restructuring is a progression of her research on land manager relationships with the agri-environment, where she drew on multiple theoretical perspectives, particularly Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of capital exchange, the multi-level perspective, and the theory of planned behaviour. Lee-Ann is also undertaking research on farmer engagement in renewable energy production and backyard poultry keeping.
Research Interest
Geographical Sciences
Publications
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Ehlers, M., Sutherland, L-A. (2016). Patterns of attention to renewable energy inthe British farming press from 1980-2013. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 54, 959-973.
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Flanigan, S., Sutherland, L-A. (2016). Buying access to social capital? From collaboration to service provision in an agricultural co-operative. Sociologia Ruralis 56, 471-490.
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Sutherland, L-A., Toma, L., Barnes, A., Matthews, K., Hopkins, J. Agri-environmental diversification. (2016). Examining the relationship between environmental, forestry and renewable energy engagement on Scottish farms. Journal of Rural Studies 47, 10-20.
