Resources

The following publications are available to download free-of-charge without access to a university library:

Research reports (peer reviewed)

Hill, I. and Mole, K. (2022). State of the Art Review. Supporting rural businesses. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/media/1wmhonux/nicre-sota-no-4-july-2022-supporting-... (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

Velez, J., Siepel, Hill, I., Rowe, F. (2022). Mapping and examining the determinants of England’s rural creative microclusters. Available at: https://pec.ac.uk/research_report_entr/rural-creative-microclusters/ (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

Mole, K., Hill, I., Maioli, S., Nguyen, T. (2022). Rural family businesses and exporting behaviour. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/media/m3jlul4e/nicre-research-report-no-5-february-2... (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

Turner, M.; Phillipson, J.; Gorton, M.; Cowie, P.; Dwyer, J.; Goodwin-Hawkins, B.; Hill, I.; Mole, K.; Nguyen, T.; Roper, S.; Thompson-Glen, M.; Rowe, F.; Tocco, B. and Wishart, M. (2021). What is the contribution of rural enterprise to Levelling Up, and how can this be further enabled? Briefing Paper 1; National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Newcastle University. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/media/rgfbvgkc/what-is-the-contribution-of-rural-ent... (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

Research blogs by cluster members

Hill, I. and Moody, L. (2024) 'Tackling inequalities in rural areas and changing the discourse of ‘deficit rural’'. The Open University Open Societal Challenges Blog. 26 February. Available at: https://societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/blog/tackling-inequalities-in-rur... (Accessed: 3 May 2024).

Velez-Ospina, J., Siepel, J., Hill, I., and Rowe, F. (2022). 'How can policymakers help rural creative businesses contribute to Levelling up?'. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre at Nesta. 26 May. Available at: https://pec.ac.uk/blog/how-can-policy-makers-help-rural-creative-busines... (Accessed: 7 May 2024).

Hill, I., Mole, K., Nguyen, T and Maioli, S. (2022). 'More export advice is needed earlier in the process'. National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise blog. March 2022. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2022/march/more-export-advice-is-needed-earlier... (Accessed: 7 May 2024)

Mole, K., Hill, I., Nguyen, T. and Maioli, S. (2022). 'Exploring exporting behaviour of UK rural and urban firms'. National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise blog. February 2022. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2022/february/exploring-exporting-behaviour-of-... (Accessed: 7 May 2024)

Hill, I. and Rowe, F. (2021) 'Rural creative industries – an untapped potential for UK economic recovery'. National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise blog. May 2021. Available at: https://nicre.co.uk/blog/2021/may/rural-creative-industries-an-untapped-... (Accessed: 7 May 2024)

Academic Journal articles published open access

Velez-Ospina, J., Siepel, J. , Hill, I. and Rowe, F. (2023). Determinants of rural creative microclustering: Evidence from web-scraped data for England. Papers in Regional Science 102(5), 903-943. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12754

Hill, I., Manning, L, and Frost, R. (2021). Rural arts entrepreneurs’ placemaking - how 'entrepreneurial placemaking' explains creative hub evolution during COVID-19 lockdown. Local Economy 36(7-8), 627-649. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942221083838

Quoted contributions in publicly accessible sites (Inge Hill)

Times Higher Education (2022). Promoting public-private partnerships in ‘levelling up’ the UK. Available at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/promoting-publicprivate-part... (Accessed: 18 January 2024).

OpenLearn course

An eight-week free online training course, hosted on OpenLearn and comprising of eight distinct subjects, which is offered as part of the ‘ICAERUS Academy’. The course aims to cultivate a foundational skill set related to developing business ideas for drone technologies. For more information, select this link to the OpenLearn course: Developing business ideas for drone technologies in rural areas (published October 2023).

The Open University BBC Partnership

The OU and the BBC have been in partnership for many years, co-producing a range of TV programmes, radio and interactive content. Academics play a pivotal role in helping to co-produce the programmes by providing the latest research, making the content accessible to a much wider audience.

Here are two exciting TV series co-produced with the BBC with assistance from our Faculty of Social Science academic Dr Vicky Johnson: Cornwall: The Fishing Life with assistance from the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics academics in co-prooducing: Our Coast.