Professor Paul Milbourne
Professor of Human Geography
School of Geography and Planning
- MilbourneP@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75791
- Glamorgan Building, Room Room 2.60, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
Overview
I am Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning. I am also Director of Cardiff University's Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space. Previously, I was Director of the Wales Rural Observatory, 2004-14, as well as Head of the School of Geography and Planning.
I am a human geographer whose main research interests lie in the field of social geography and, more specifically, the geographies of welfare, poverty, homelessness and injustice. I also have interests in environmental geography, particularly the interplay between social and environmental forms of injustice. My research has been undertaken in rural, urban and ex-industrial areas in the UK and other countries in the Global north. My current research projects are focused on urban food systems; food poverty and justice; urban agriculture and; migrant workers in the agri-food system.
Publication
2023
- Kingsley, J. et al. 2023. Pandemic gardening: A narrative review, vignettes and implications for future research. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 87, article number: 128062. (10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128062)
- Jablonski, B. B. R., Milbourne, P., Maderson, S. and Morgan, K. 2023. Considering tradeoffs in “local” food policies: examples from school feeding programmes. Frontiers in Nutrition 10, article number: 1242493. (10.3389/fnut.2023.1242493)
2022
- Mattioni, D., Milbourne, P. and Sonnino, R. 2022. Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 44, pp. 48-59. (10.1016/j.eist.2022.05.007)
- Sonnino, R. and Milbourne, P. 2022. Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach. Local Environment 27(7), pp. 915-926.
- Coulson, H. and Milbourne, P. 2022. Agriculture, food and land: struggles for UK post-Brexit agri-food justice. Geoforum 131, article number: 126-135. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.007)
2021
- Milbourne, P. 2021. Growing public spaces in the city: community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness. Urban Studies 58(14), pp. 2901-2919. (10.1177/0042098020972281)
- Milbourne, P. and Coulson, H. 2021. Migrant labour in the UK's post-Brexit agri-food system: ambiguities, contradictions and precarities. Journal of Rural Studies 86, pp. 430-439. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.009)
2020
- Milbourne, P. 2020. Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places.. In: Skinner, M., Winterton, R. and Walsh, K. eds. Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing. London, England: Routledge
- Milbourne, P. 2020. Everyday (in)justices and ordinary environmentalisms: community gardening in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods.. In: Tornaghi, C. and Certomà, C. eds. Urban Gardening as Politics. Routledge, pp. 12-31.
- Coulson, H. and Milbourne, P. 2020. Food justice for all?: searching for the 'justice multiple' in UK food movements. Agriculture and Human Values 39, pp. 43-58. (10.1007/s10460-020-10142-5)
2018
- Milbourne, P. 2018. Urban community gardening: producing new spaces of social nature in the city.. In: Marsden, T. ed. Sage Handbook of Nature. Sage, pp. 913-932.
2017
- Lever, J. and Milbourne, P. 2017. The structural invisibility of outsiders: the role of migrant labour in the meat-processing industry. Sociology 51(2), pp. 306-322. (10.1177/0038038515616354)
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2017. Community, rurality, and older people: critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities. Journal of Rural Studies 50, pp. 129-138. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.12.003)
- Milbourne, P. and Mason, K. 2017. Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: opencast coal mining, landscape and place. Environment and Planning A 49(1), pp. 29-46. (10.1177/0308518X16665843)
- Mason, K. and Milbourne, P. 2017. “Not ever again”: a postcolonial view of opencast coal mining in the South Wales valleys. Critical Planning 23
2016
- Milbourne, P. and Webb, B. 2016. Rural poverty and well-being: material and sociocultural disconnections. In: Phillips, R. and Wong, C. eds. Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. Springer, pp. 473-486.
- Milbourne, P. 2016. Poverty and welfare in rural places. In: Shucksmith, M. and Brown, D. L. eds. Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 450-461.
2015
- Milbourne, P. 2015. Austerity, welfare reform, and older people in rural places: Competing discourses of voluntarism and community?. In: Hanlon, N. and Skinner, M. eds. Ageing Resource Communities: New Frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism. Routledge Studies in Human Geography Vol. 56. Routledge, pp. 74-88.
2014
- Lever, J. B. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs: changing established/outsider relations across society and space?. Space and Polity 18(3), pp. 255-268. (10.1080/13562576.2014.956400)
- Milbourne, P. and Kitchen, L. 2014. Rural mobilities: Connecting movement and fixity in rural places. Journal of Rural Studies 34, pp. 326-336. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.004)
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Older people, low income and place: Making connections in rural Britain. In: Hagan Hennessy, C., Means, R. and Burholt, V. eds. Countryside connections: Older people, community and place in rural Britain. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 193-220.
- Mason, K. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Constructing a 'landscape justice' for windfarm development: The case of Nant Y Moch, Wales. Geoforum 53, pp. 104-115. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.02.012)
2013
- Milbourne, P. 2013. Poverty, place and rurality: material and socio-cultural disconnections. Environment and Planning A n/a (10.1068/a45336)
2012
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2012. Modernization and devolution: delivering services to older people in rural areas of England and Wales. Social Policy and Administration 47(5), pp. 501-519. (10.1111/j.1467-9515.2012.00870.x)
- Milbourne, P. and Doheny, S. 2012. Older people and poverty in rural Britain: material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 389-397. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.007)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Growing old in rural places. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 315-317. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.10.001)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rurality and housing. In: Smith, S. ed. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 232-236., (10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00670-6)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rural welfare. In: Curry, N. and Moseley, M. eds. A quarter century of change in rural Britain and Europe: reflections to mark 25 years of the Countryside and Community Research Institute. Gloucester: CCRI Press, pp. 49-59.
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Everyday (in)justices and ordinary environmentalisms: community gardening in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 17(9), pp. 943-957. (10.1080/13549839.2011.607158)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rural homelessness: an international perspective. In: Smith, S. ed. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 210-215., (10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00339-8)
2011
- Milbourne, P. ed. 2011. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Introducing the geographies of rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 1-19.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. The social and cultural impacts of English migration to rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 46-64.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Poverty in rural Wales: material hardship and social inclusion. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 254-272.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Conclusion: continuity and change in rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 322-333.
2010
- Cloke, P., Cooke, P., Cursons, J., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2010. Ethics, reflexivity and research: Encounters with homeless people. Ethics Place and Environment 3(2), pp. 133-154. (10.1080/713665889)
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Putting poverty and welfare in place. Policy & Politics 38(1), pp. 153-169. (10.1332/147084410X487679)
- Milbourne, P. 2010. The Geographies of Poverty and Welfare. Geography Compass 4(2), pp. 158-171. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00296.x)
- Milbourne, P. ed. 2010. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Research in Rural Sociology and Development Vol. 15. London: Emerald.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Growing places: community gardening, ordinary creativities and place-based regeneration in a northern English city. In: Edensor, T. et al. eds. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge studies in human geography Vol. 30. London: Routledge, pp. 141-154.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Placing welfare in rural England. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 111-113.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Scaling and spacing welfare reform: making sense of welfare in rural places. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Research in rural sociology and development Vol. 15. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 1-18.
2009
- Milbourne, P. 2009. Homelessness, rural. In: Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N. eds. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 191-195.
2008
- Milbourne, P., Marsden, T. K. and Kitchen, L. C. 2008. Scaling post-industrial forestry: the complex implementation of national forestry regimes in the southern valleys of Wales. Antipode 40(4), pp. 612-631. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00626.x)
- Milbourne, P. 2008. New Labour, poverty and welfare in rural England. In: Woods, M. ed. New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997. Bristol: Policy, pp. 189-204.
- Milbourne, P. 2008. From agricultural poverty to social exclusion: shifting approaches to rural poverty in England. In: Burchardt, J. and Conford, P. eds. The Contested Countryside: Rurals Politics and Land Controversy in Modern Britain. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 167-186.
2007
- Milbourne, P. 2007. Re-populating rural studies: migrations, movements and mobilities. Journal of Rural Studies 23(3), pp. 381-386. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.04.002)
- Hartwell, S., Kitchen, L. C., Milbourne, P. and Morgan, S. L. 2007. Population change in rural Wales: social and cultural impacts. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.walesruralobservatory.org.uk/sites/default/files/14.%20Population%20Change%20in%20Rural%20Wales%20-%20Social%20and%20Cultural%20Impacts.pdf
2006
- Kitchen, L. C., Marsden, T. K. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Community forests and regeneration in post-industrial landscapes. Geoforum 37(5), pp. 831-843. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.09.008)
- Milbourne, P., Kitchen, L. C. and Stanley, K. G. 2006. Social forestry: exploring the social contexts of forests and forestry in rural areas. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. K. and Mooney, P. eds. Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 230-242.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. J. eds. 2006. International perspectives on rural homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series. London: Routledge.
- Cloke, P. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Writing/righting rural homelessness. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 261-273.
- Cloke, P. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Knowing homelessness in rural England. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 121-136.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. 2006. Rural homelessness in the UK: a national overview. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 79-96.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. 2006. The hidden faces of rural homelessness [introduction]. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 1-8.
- Milbourne, P. 2006. Poverty, social exclusion and welfare in rural Britain. In: Midgley, J. ed. A New Rural Agenda. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, pp. 76-93.
- Milbourne, P. 2006. Rural housing and homelessness. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. K. and Mooney, P. eds. The Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 427-444.
2005
- Stanley, K. G., Milbourne, P. and Marsden, T. K. 2005. Governance, rurality and nature: exploring emerging discourses of state forestry in Britain. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23(5), pp. 679-695. (10.1068/c43m)
2004
- Milbourne, P. 2004. The local geographies of poverty: a rural case-study. Geoforum 35(5), pp. 559-575. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2003.11.005)
- Milbourne, P. 2004. Rural poverty: marginalisation and exclusion in Britain and the United States. Routledge Studies in Human Geography. London: Routledge.
- Franklin, A., Marsden, T. K., Bishop, K. and Milbourne, P. 2004. Forests and forest land in the context of broader land use planning. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Milbourne, P. 2004. United Kingdom, rural. In: Levinson, D. ed. Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage
2003
- Marsden, T. K., Milbourne, P., Kitchen, L. C. and Bishop, K. 2003. Communities in Nature: The Construction and Understanding of Forest Natures in the South Wales Valleys Communities. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 238-256. (10.1111/1467-9523.00243)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. The complexities of hunting in rural England and Wales. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 289-308. (10.1111/1467-9523.00246)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. Nature - society - rurality: making critical connections [Editorial]. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 193 -195. (10.1111/1467-9523.00240)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2003. The complex mobilities of homeless people in rural England. Geoforum 34(1), pp. 21-35. (10.1016/S0016-7185(02)00041-6)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. Hunting ruralties: nature, society and culture in 'hunt countries' of England. Journal of Rural Studies 19(2), pp. 157-71. (10.1016/S0743-0167(02)00054-2)
2002
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2002. Partnership and policy networks in rural local governance: Homelessness in Taunton. Public Administration 78(1), pp. 111-133. (10.1111/1467-9299.00195)
- Kitchen, L. C., Milbourne, P., Marsden, T. K. and Bishop, K. 2002. Forestry and Environmental Democracy: The Problematic Case of the South Wales Valleys. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 4(2), pp. 139-155. (10.1002/jepp.106)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2002. Rural homelessness: issues, experiences and policy responses. Bristol: Policy Press.
2001
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. Homelessness and rurality: exploring connections in local spaces of rural England. Sociologia Ruralis 41(4), pp. 438-453. (10.1111/1467-9523.00193)
- Milbourne, P., Widdowfield, R. and Cloke, P. 2001. Making the homeless count? Enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness. Policy and Politics 29(3), pp. 259-279.
- Milbourne, P., Cloke, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. The local spaces of welfare provision: responding to homelessness in rural England. Political Geography 20(4), pp. 493-512. (10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00004-X)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. Interconnecting rurality and homelessness: evidence from local authority homelessness officers in England and Wales. Journal of Rural Studies 17(1), pp. 99-111. (10.1016/S0743-0167(00)00029-2)
- Choke, P., Milbourne, P. and Thomas, C. 2001. From wasteland to wonderland: opencast mining, regeneration and the English national forest. In: Morris, J. et al. eds. Rural Planning and Management. Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Milbourne, P. 2001. Local responses to central state restructuring of social housing provision in rural areas. In: Bateman, I. J. et al. eds. Rural Planning and Management. Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development Vol. 2. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. The geographies of homelessness in rural England. Regional Studies 35(1), pp. 23-37. (10.1080/00343400120025655)
2000
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2000. Homelessness and rurality: 'Out-of-Place' in purified space?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18(6), pp. 715-735. (10.1068/d34j)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2000. Change but no change: Dealing with homelessness under the 1996 Housing Act. Housing Studies 15(5), pp. 739-756. (10.1080/02673030050134583)
1997
- Cloke, P. J., Goodwin, M. and Milbourne, P. 1997. Rural Wales: community and marginalization. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Milbourne, P. ed. 1997. Revealing rural 'others': Representation, power and identity in the British countryside. Rural Studies Series. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Articles
- Kingsley, J. et al. 2023. Pandemic gardening: A narrative review, vignettes and implications for future research. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 87, article number: 128062. (10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128062)
- Jablonski, B. B. R., Milbourne, P., Maderson, S. and Morgan, K. 2023. Considering tradeoffs in “local” food policies: examples from school feeding programmes. Frontiers in Nutrition 10, article number: 1242493. (10.3389/fnut.2023.1242493)
- Mattioni, D., Milbourne, P. and Sonnino, R. 2022. Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 44, pp. 48-59. (10.1016/j.eist.2022.05.007)
- Sonnino, R. and Milbourne, P. 2022. Food system transformation: a progressive place-based approach. Local Environment 27(7), pp. 915-926.
- Coulson, H. and Milbourne, P. 2022. Agriculture, food and land: struggles for UK post-Brexit agri-food justice. Geoforum 131, article number: 126-135. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.007)
- Milbourne, P. 2021. Growing public spaces in the city: community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness. Urban Studies 58(14), pp. 2901-2919. (10.1177/0042098020972281)
- Milbourne, P. and Coulson, H. 2021. Migrant labour in the UK's post-Brexit agri-food system: ambiguities, contradictions and precarities. Journal of Rural Studies 86, pp. 430-439. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.009)
- Coulson, H. and Milbourne, P. 2020. Food justice for all?: searching for the 'justice multiple' in UK food movements. Agriculture and Human Values 39, pp. 43-58. (10.1007/s10460-020-10142-5)
- Lever, J. and Milbourne, P. 2017. The structural invisibility of outsiders: the role of migrant labour in the meat-processing industry. Sociology 51(2), pp. 306-322. (10.1177/0038038515616354)
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2017. Community, rurality, and older people: critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities. Journal of Rural Studies 50, pp. 129-138. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.12.003)
- Milbourne, P. and Mason, K. 2017. Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: opencast coal mining, landscape and place. Environment and Planning A 49(1), pp. 29-46. (10.1177/0308518X16665843)
- Mason, K. and Milbourne, P. 2017. “Not ever again”: a postcolonial view of opencast coal mining in the South Wales valleys. Critical Planning 23
- Lever, J. B. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs: changing established/outsider relations across society and space?. Space and Polity 18(3), pp. 255-268. (10.1080/13562576.2014.956400)
- Milbourne, P. and Kitchen, L. 2014. Rural mobilities: Connecting movement and fixity in rural places. Journal of Rural Studies 34, pp. 326-336. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.004)
- Mason, K. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Constructing a 'landscape justice' for windfarm development: The case of Nant Y Moch, Wales. Geoforum 53, pp. 104-115. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.02.012)
- Milbourne, P. 2013. Poverty, place and rurality: material and socio-cultural disconnections. Environment and Planning A n/a (10.1068/a45336)
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2012. Modernization and devolution: delivering services to older people in rural areas of England and Wales. Social Policy and Administration 47(5), pp. 501-519. (10.1111/j.1467-9515.2012.00870.x)
- Milbourne, P. and Doheny, S. 2012. Older people and poverty in rural Britain: material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 389-397. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.007)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Growing old in rural places. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 315-317. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.10.001)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Everyday (in)justices and ordinary environmentalisms: community gardening in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 17(9), pp. 943-957. (10.1080/13549839.2011.607158)
- Cloke, P., Cooke, P., Cursons, J., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2010. Ethics, reflexivity and research: Encounters with homeless people. Ethics Place and Environment 3(2), pp. 133-154. (10.1080/713665889)
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Putting poverty and welfare in place. Policy & Politics 38(1), pp. 153-169. (10.1332/147084410X487679)
- Milbourne, P. 2010. The Geographies of Poverty and Welfare. Geography Compass 4(2), pp. 158-171. (10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00296.x)
- Milbourne, P., Marsden, T. K. and Kitchen, L. C. 2008. Scaling post-industrial forestry: the complex implementation of national forestry regimes in the southern valleys of Wales. Antipode 40(4), pp. 612-631. (10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00626.x)
- Milbourne, P. 2007. Re-populating rural studies: migrations, movements and mobilities. Journal of Rural Studies 23(3), pp. 381-386. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.04.002)
- Kitchen, L. C., Marsden, T. K. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Community forests and regeneration in post-industrial landscapes. Geoforum 37(5), pp. 831-843. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.09.008)
- Stanley, K. G., Milbourne, P. and Marsden, T. K. 2005. Governance, rurality and nature: exploring emerging discourses of state forestry in Britain. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 23(5), pp. 679-695. (10.1068/c43m)
- Milbourne, P. 2004. The local geographies of poverty: a rural case-study. Geoforum 35(5), pp. 559-575. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2003.11.005)
- Marsden, T. K., Milbourne, P., Kitchen, L. C. and Bishop, K. 2003. Communities in Nature: The Construction and Understanding of Forest Natures in the South Wales Valleys Communities. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 238-256. (10.1111/1467-9523.00243)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. The complexities of hunting in rural England and Wales. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 289-308. (10.1111/1467-9523.00246)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. Nature - society - rurality: making critical connections [Editorial]. Sociologia Ruralis 43(3), pp. 193 -195. (10.1111/1467-9523.00240)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2003. The complex mobilities of homeless people in rural England. Geoforum 34(1), pp. 21-35. (10.1016/S0016-7185(02)00041-6)
- Milbourne, P. 2003. Hunting ruralties: nature, society and culture in 'hunt countries' of England. Journal of Rural Studies 19(2), pp. 157-71. (10.1016/S0743-0167(02)00054-2)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2002. Partnership and policy networks in rural local governance: Homelessness in Taunton. Public Administration 78(1), pp. 111-133. (10.1111/1467-9299.00195)
- Kitchen, L. C., Milbourne, P., Marsden, T. K. and Bishop, K. 2002. Forestry and Environmental Democracy: The Problematic Case of the South Wales Valleys. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 4(2), pp. 139-155. (10.1002/jepp.106)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. Homelessness and rurality: exploring connections in local spaces of rural England. Sociologia Ruralis 41(4), pp. 438-453. (10.1111/1467-9523.00193)
- Milbourne, P., Widdowfield, R. and Cloke, P. 2001. Making the homeless count? Enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness. Policy and Politics 29(3), pp. 259-279.
- Milbourne, P., Cloke, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. The local spaces of welfare provision: responding to homelessness in rural England. Political Geography 20(4), pp. 493-512. (10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00004-X)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. Interconnecting rurality and homelessness: evidence from local authority homelessness officers in England and Wales. Journal of Rural Studies 17(1), pp. 99-111. (10.1016/S0743-0167(00)00029-2)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2001. The geographies of homelessness in rural England. Regional Studies 35(1), pp. 23-37. (10.1080/00343400120025655)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2000. Homelessness and rurality: 'Out-of-Place' in purified space?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18(6), pp. 715-735. (10.1068/d34j)
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2000. Change but no change: Dealing with homelessness under the 1996 Housing Act. Housing Studies 15(5), pp. 739-756. (10.1080/02673030050134583)
Book sections
- Milbourne, P. 2020. Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places.. In: Skinner, M., Winterton, R. and Walsh, K. eds. Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing. London, England: Routledge
- Milbourne, P. 2020. Everyday (in)justices and ordinary environmentalisms: community gardening in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods.. In: Tornaghi, C. and Certomà, C. eds. Urban Gardening as Politics. Routledge, pp. 12-31.
- Milbourne, P. 2018. Urban community gardening: producing new spaces of social nature in the city.. In: Marsden, T. ed. Sage Handbook of Nature. Sage, pp. 913-932.
- Milbourne, P. and Webb, B. 2016. Rural poverty and well-being: material and sociocultural disconnections. In: Phillips, R. and Wong, C. eds. Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. Springer, pp. 473-486.
- Milbourne, P. 2016. Poverty and welfare in rural places. In: Shucksmith, M. and Brown, D. L. eds. Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 450-461.
- Milbourne, P. 2015. Austerity, welfare reform, and older people in rural places: Competing discourses of voluntarism and community?. In: Hanlon, N. and Skinner, M. eds. Ageing Resource Communities: New Frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism. Routledge Studies in Human Geography Vol. 56. Routledge, pp. 74-88.
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Older people, low income and place: Making connections in rural Britain. In: Hagan Hennessy, C., Means, R. and Burholt, V. eds. Countryside connections: Older people, community and place in rural Britain. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 193-220.
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rurality and housing. In: Smith, S. ed. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 232-236., (10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00670-6)
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rural welfare. In: Curry, N. and Moseley, M. eds. A quarter century of change in rural Britain and Europe: reflections to mark 25 years of the Countryside and Community Research Institute. Gloucester: CCRI Press, pp. 49-59.
- Milbourne, P. 2012. Rural homelessness: an international perspective. In: Smith, S. ed. International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, pp. 210-215., (10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00339-8)
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Introducing the geographies of rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 1-19.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. The social and cultural impacts of English migration to rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 46-64.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Poverty in rural Wales: material hardship and social inclusion. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 254-272.
- Milbourne, P. 2011. Conclusion: continuity and change in rural Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 322-333.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Growing places: community gardening, ordinary creativities and place-based regeneration in a northern English city. In: Edensor, T. et al. eds. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge studies in human geography Vol. 30. London: Routledge, pp. 141-154.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Placing welfare in rural England. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 111-113.
- Milbourne, P. 2010. Scaling and spacing welfare reform: making sense of welfare in rural places. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Research in rural sociology and development Vol. 15. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 1-18.
- Milbourne, P. 2009. Homelessness, rural. In: Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N. eds. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 191-195.
- Milbourne, P. 2008. New Labour, poverty and welfare in rural England. In: Woods, M. ed. New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997. Bristol: Policy, pp. 189-204.
- Milbourne, P. 2008. From agricultural poverty to social exclusion: shifting approaches to rural poverty in England. In: Burchardt, J. and Conford, P. eds. The Contested Countryside: Rurals Politics and Land Controversy in Modern Britain. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 167-186.
- Milbourne, P., Kitchen, L. C. and Stanley, K. G. 2006. Social forestry: exploring the social contexts of forests and forestry in rural areas. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. K. and Mooney, P. eds. Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 230-242.
- Cloke, P. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Writing/righting rural homelessness. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 261-273.
- Cloke, P. and Milbourne, P. 2006. Knowing homelessness in rural England. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 121-136.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. 2006. Rural homelessness in the UK: a national overview. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 79-96.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. 2006. The hidden faces of rural homelessness [introduction]. In: Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. eds. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series London: Routledge, pp. 1-8.
- Milbourne, P. 2006. Poverty, social exclusion and welfare in rural Britain. In: Midgley, J. ed. A New Rural Agenda. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, pp. 76-93.
- Milbourne, P. 2006. Rural housing and homelessness. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. K. and Mooney, P. eds. The Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 427-444.
- Milbourne, P. 2004. United Kingdom, rural. In: Levinson, D. ed. Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage
- Choke, P., Milbourne, P. and Thomas, C. 2001. From wasteland to wonderland: opencast mining, regeneration and the English national forest. In: Morris, J. et al. eds. Rural Planning and Management. Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Milbourne, P. 2001. Local responses to central state restructuring of social housing provision in rural areas. In: Bateman, I. J. et al. eds. Rural Planning and Management. Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development Vol. 2. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Books
- Milbourne, P. ed. 2011. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Milbourne, P. ed. 2010. Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives. Research in Rural Sociology and Development Vol. 15. London: Emerald.
- Milbourne, P. and Cloke, P. J. eds. 2006. International perspectives on rural homelessness. Housing, Planning and Design Series. London: Routledge.
- Milbourne, P. 2004. Rural poverty: marginalisation and exclusion in Britain and the United States. Routledge Studies in Human Geography. London: Routledge.
- Cloke, P., Milbourne, P. and Widdowfield, R. 2002. Rural homelessness: issues, experiences and policy responses. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Cloke, P. J., Goodwin, M. and Milbourne, P. 1997. Rural Wales: community and marginalization. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Milbourne, P. ed. 1997. Revealing rural 'others': Representation, power and identity in the British countryside. Rural Studies Series. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Monographs
- Hartwell, S., Kitchen, L. C., Milbourne, P. and Morgan, S. L. 2007. Population change in rural Wales: social and cultural impacts. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.walesruralobservatory.org.uk/sites/default/files/14.%20Population%20Change%20in%20Rural%20Wales%20-%20Social%20and%20Cultural%20Impacts.pdf
- Franklin, A., Marsden, T. K., Bishop, K. and Milbourne, P. 2004. Forests and forest land in the context of broader land use planning. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Doheny, S. and Milbourne, P. 2014. Older people, low income and place: Making connections in rural Britain. In: Hagan Hennessy, C., Means, R. and Burholt, V. eds. Countryside connections: Older people, community and place in rural Britain. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 193-220.
Research
Research interests:
I am a human geographer whose main research interests lie in the field of social geography and, more specifically, the geographies of welfare, poverty, homelessness and injustice. I also have interests in environmental geography, particularly the interplay between social and environmental forms of injustice. My research has been undertaken in rural, urban and ex-industrial areas in the UK and other countries in the Global north. My current research projects are focused on urban food systems; food poverty and justice; urban agriculture and; migrant workers in the agri-food system.
Research awards (since 2000):
I have been awarded more than 40 research grants totalling £27 million across my career. Funding organisations include European Commission, RCUK, the Economic and Social Research Council, Welsh Government, Scottish Government, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, Finnish Academy, Home Office, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Forestry Commission, Countryside Agency, local government, Big Lottery Fund and anti-poverty organisations.
Funded research projects:
- 2020 – 24: FOODTRAILS: Building Pathways Towards Inclusive and Integrated Urban Food Policies. Funded by European Commission (Horizon 2020), €14 million (with R Sonnino and European partners).
- 2018: National Development Framework for Wales, Regions and Rural Areas Research Study. Funded by the Welsh Government, £73,000 (with Arup)
- 2017 – 23: Rural Futures. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, £2 million (with Severn Wye Energy and Bro Consultancy).
- 2017: Generating a Research Strategy for the Post-Brexit Agri-food sector. Funded by ESRC, £5,200 (with G Enticott and K Morgan).
- 2014: Alternative Urbanisms. Funded by GW4, £15,000, with C Barnett (University of Exeter), G Bridge (University of Bristol) and G Brown (University of Bath).
- 2017 – 18: Farm Workers in Scottish Agriculture – Case Studies in the International Seasonal Migrant Labour Market. Funded by Scottish Government, £69,000 (with Scotland’s Rural College).
- 2014: Growing spaces: community gardening in disadvantaged urban communities. Funded by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, £5,000.
- 2014 – 15: Growing healthy diets: developing community gardening and food projects within schools. Funded by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, £4,900, with J Hawkins, A Fletcher and K Morgan.
- 2009 – 14: Climate Change Consortium for Wales (C3W). Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, £4 million (with colleagues at Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Swansea universities).
- 2003 – 13: Wales Rural Observatory. Funded by the European Commission and the Welsh Government, £4.05 million (with Aberystwyth University).
- 2011 – 13: Growing a healthy older population: community and allotment gardening amongst older people in the South Wales Valleys. Funded by the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research, £150,000, with D Clayton et al. (Cardiff Metropolitan University).
- 2010 – 12: Connecting Communities: the economic, social and cultural impacts of Broadband in rural Wales. Funded by the Welsh Government, £210,000, with S Hurley (School of Computer Science).
- 2009 – 12: Grey and Pleasant Land? An interdisciplinary exploration of the connectivities of older people in rural society (with Plymouth, Swansea, West of England and Bournemouth Universities). Funded through the RCUK’s New Dynamics of Ageing research programme, £1.1 million
- 2009 – 10: Homelessness and Central and Eastern European Migrants. Funded by the Big Lottery, £92,000, with Shelter Cymru and Swansea University.
- 2008 – 10: Planting Spaces, Growing Places: Community gardening and regeneration in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods in the UK. Funded through research overheads, £45,000.
- 2008 – 10: Welfare, Restructuring and Regionalisation in Finland. Funded by the Finnish Academy, €300,000 (international partner, with S Hanninen and T Silvasti, University of Helsinki).
- 2007 – 08: Commission on Rural Housing in Wales. Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, £18,000
- 2004 – 05: The Future of Rural Services. Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, £114,000 (with University of Gloucestershire).
- 2003 – 07: The Shifting Governance of State Forestry in Britain. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (CASE award), £12,000.
- 2003 – 06: Rural Governance and Forestry. Funded by the Forestry Commission, £108,000 (with T Marsden).
- 2003 – 05: Forestry, Community and Social Research in Wales. Funded by the Forestry Commission, £105,000 (with T Marsden).
- 2003 – 05: The Role of the Housing System in Rural Wales. Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, £80,000 (with B Edwards and S Orford).
- 2003 – 05: Rural Economy and Society Study Group Seminar Series. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Research Seminar Series), £11,900
- 2002 – 05: The Social Regulation of the Rural Environment. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (CASE award), £14,500
- 2002 – 03: Forests, Nature and Society in Post-industrial Spaces. Funded by the Forestry Commission, £40,000
- 2002 – 03: Age Balanced Communities in Rural Wales. Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, £83,000 (with Newidiem consultancy).
- 2000 – 03: Forestry, Land and Community in Wales. Funded by the Forestry Commission, £120,000 (with K Bishop and T Marsden).
- 2000 – 02: Rural Economy and Society Study Group Seminar Series. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Research Seminar Series), £8,200
- 2000: The Effects of Hunting with Dogs on the Social and Cultural Life of the Countryside of England and Wales. Research Project for the Burns Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs funded by the Home Office, £49,000
Biography
Education and qualifications
1988 – 1991 Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
1985 – 1988 B.A. (Hons.), Human Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Career overview
2013 – Head of School, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
2005 – Professor, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
2003 – 2005 Reader, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
1999 – 2003 Cardiff Senior Fellow, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
1993 – 1999 Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow, Countryside and Community
Research Unit, University of Gloucestershire
1992 – 1993 Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Bristol
1991 – 1992 Research Officer, Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter
Honours and awards
Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (2011 –)
Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2019 –)
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (2011 –)
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2019 –)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Committees and reviewing
Head of the School of Geography and Planning (2013 –)
Director of Research, School of Geography and Planning (2009 – 13)
Member of Council (2016 – 19)
Member of Senate (2011 –)
Founder and Director of Cardiff University’s Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space (CRESS) (2005 –)
External committees
Member of the Royal Geographical Society’s Policy Committee (2015-18)
Member of the Royal Geographical Society’s Research and Higher Education Committee (2012-15)
Secretary (2011-14) and Committee Member (2014-) of the Geographies of Justice Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society. Past committee member of the Rural Geography Research Group
Member of the Council of the International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) (2004-12)
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology (2003-07)