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
- Principal investigator, Triggering environmental transformation on large land holdings, funded by UKRI Agrifood4NetZero.
- 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.
- Team lead, 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.
- Co-Investigator, Reversing the Gaze: Knowledge stories on community land rights, funded by an ESRC New Investigator Grant.
Past research
- Principal investigator, Developing dialogues on land use decision making for natural capital, funded by SEFARI Innovative Knowledge Exchange Fund.
- The Socio-Economic Impacts of “Green” Land Investment in Rural Scotland, funded under the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division of the Scottish Government.
- A literature review of the social and economic impacts of land use change, funded by the Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government Underpinning National Capacity Support to Policy Function.
- PhD dissertation, “Changing relations of agricultural land tenure and access in the Canadian Prairies”, advances the understanding of the social construction of property and contestation over the meaning and consequences of private property in land, particularly as it relates to sustainable land management and the public good.
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
Technical / contract reports
- Beingessner, N.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Thompson, C.; Sutherland, L.; Creaney, R. (2024) Visions for Future Land Use in Scotland: Technical Report on Different Views on Land Use/Land Use Change, Land Use Transformations website.
- 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