Naomi Beingessner

Social Researcher in Transformative Land Management
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
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Naomi Beingessner is a social researcher in the Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Department (SEGS) and a member of the 'Land and People' Group. She is a human geographer with research interests that focus on land tenure and property regimes, multi-stakeholder decision making, and food systems. She uses qualitative, participatory methods to research the social and economic impacts of land use and land tenure change. Naomi has a PhD in Environment and Geography from the University of Manitoba, Canada.

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

Past research

Journals

Prior to appointment

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 Unpublished.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L.; Creaney, R. (2023) Milestone 25 LULUC story telling draft findings, Project Milestone Report, 20 September 2023, unpublished, 8 pp.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