Research
My research focuses on socio-economic impacts of land use and ownership change on rural peoples. My interests include property theory, food systems, multi-stakeholder decision making, and environmental land management. I have substantial experience with qualitative data collection and analysis, community research and engaged scholarship through my PhD and MA research and a three-year position managing a social science and humanities-based community research institute in a Canadian university.
Ongoing and recent projects
- Acting principal investigator in the Scotland’s Land Reform Futures project under the umbrella of the ‘Rural Futures’ theme in the Scottish Government’s Strategic Research Programme (2022-2027), funded under the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division of the Scottish Government.
- Supporting Scotland’s Land Use Transformations project, under the umbrella of the ‘Human Impacts on the Environment’ theme in the Scottish Government’s Strategic Research Programme (2022-2027), funded under the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division of the Scottish Government.
- Research team member, Reversing the Gaze: Knowledge stories on community land rights, funded by an ESRC New Investigator Grant.
- Principal investigator, Developing dialogues on land use decision making for natural capital, funded by SEFARI Innovative Knowledge Exchange Fund.
Past research
Publications
Journals
- Beingessner, N.; Magnan, A.; Wendimu, M. (2022) “Land imaginaries” in Western Canada: (financial) neoliberalism, agrarianism, and the contemporary politics of agricultural land, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 41(4), 637-655
- Calo, A.; McKee, A.; Perrin, C.; Gasselin, P.; McGreevy, S.; Sippel, S. R.; Desmarais, A. A.; Shields, K.; Baysse-Laine, A.; Magnan, A.; Beingessner, N.; Kobayashi, M. (2021) Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes., Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, Art. 683544
Prior to appointment
- Beingessner, N. (2021) Narrating values, persuading government: The unsettled stories of agricultural land ownership in the rural Canadian Prairies, Geoforum, 123, 56-65
- Beingessner, N. (2021) Narrating values, persuading government: The unsettled stories of agricultural land ownership in the rural Canadian Prairies, Geoforum, 123, 56-65
- Beingessner, N.; Fletcher, A.J. (2020) “Going local”: farmers’ perspectives on local food systems in rural Canada, Agriculture and Human Values, 37, 129-145
- Beingessner, N.; Fletcher, A.J. (2020) “Going local”: farmers’ perspectives on local food systems in rural Canada, Agriculture and Human Values, 37, 129-145
- N. Beingessner (2019) Owning the Island: The question of land in Prince Edward Island, Frontline farmers: How the National Farmers Union resists agribusiness and creates our food future
Reports
- Beingessner, N.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Thompson, C.; Sutherland, L.; Creaney, R. (2023) Land Use Transformations Project (JHIC31) Milestone 12 – LULUC story telling draft findings, Project Milestone (M25), p8. Unpublished.
- Beingessner, N.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Thompson, C.; Sutherland, L.; Creaney, R. (2023) Milestone 25 LULUC story telling draft findings, Project Milestone Report, 20 September 2023, unpublished, 8 pp.
- McKee, A.; Beingessner, N. (2023) A literature review of the social and economic impacts of land use change, Published on SEFARI Gateway website
- McKee, A.; Beingessner, N.; Pinker, A.; Marshall, A.; Currie, M.; Hopkins, J. (2023) The Social and Economic Impacts of Green Land Investment in Rural Scotland, Published on Scottish Government website
Conference papers
- Beingessner, N.; Sutherland, L.; Creaney, R.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Thompson, C. (2023) Scottish Stakeholder Visions of Rural Land Use in a ‘Just Transition’, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 29 August – 1 September 2023, London, UK
