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 Dr. Rhys Evans is the principal of Integrate Consulting. He has been researching and working in rural community development in Scotland since arriving in the UK in 1996. Integrate Consulting specializes in multi-method social research, evaluation, policy analysis and training. Its research focus is upon community development in all its aspects including rural development and urban environmental justice, assets-based community development, the social value of forests, language and other culture assets, and equine landscapes.
Prior to setting up Integrate Consulting in July 2005, he worked at the Arkleton Institute of Rural Development Research at the University of Aberdeen as a Research Fellow with Professor John Bryden, and at the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI, where he was a senior Research Fellow.
In addition to teaching MSc modules for the University of Highlands and Islands, his research clients have included the Scottish Government, the Forestry Commission UK, The Carnegie UK Rural Commission, and the Welsh Assembly Government. In so doing he has worked for, and with rural communities in Scotland to encourage the development of social, cultural, environmental and economic activities which benefit them.
Dr. Evans has served on both sides of the community - policy practitioner divide, having been a founding member of the Old Aberdeen Community Council, the Old Aberdeen Recycling Initiative, and the Town & Gown Forum in Aberdeen. At the same time, he teaches the next generation of rural community development practitioners in on-line Masters Degree programmes at the UHI. He has worked for and with communities, and, poacher turned gamekeeper, he played an active role in the Advisory Group for the Scottish Executive's Rural Voices: Action Research Competition. He also was a Consultant for the Carnegie UK Rural Commission and member of the Steering Group for the Big Lottery Community Assets Programme.
Please use the link below to download Rhys' latest CV.
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