Dr Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

Biography

Bryonny undertakes applied research on development strategies at local and regional scales. Her main interests are in how local government action and national policy directions can help (or hinder) better economic outcomes for places outside major urban centres.

Bryonny regularly works on projects alongside local government in the UK and collaborates with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre to strengthen territorial development strategies. She is currently a lead researcher on the Horizon Europe RUSTIK project, which is developing new data and methods to help policymakers make better decisions for sustainable transitions in rural areas. In 2023, Bryonny was selected as a UKRI Policy Fellow, working with the Welsh Government towards a roadmap for local government finance reform.

Since joining the CCRI in 2020, Bryonny has been part of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) team, in partnership with Newcastle University and Warwick Business School. Bryonny was previously based in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, where she was affiliated to the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) and recognised as one of the Welsh Crucible’s emerging research leaders.

Bryonny co-convenes EdgeNet: the Regional Studies Association research network on peripheral places and regions.

Qualifications

• PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Melbourne, 2014
• MA (Hons) in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2007
• BA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2004
• BCom in Management and Employment Relations, University of Auckland, 2004.

Membership of professional bodies

• Fellow, Regional Studies Association
• Member, European Society for Rural Sociology.