Overview

I am a social scientist and project manager, working as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR).

My research interests include:

• sustainable tourism
• food systems
• farm enterprises
• natural and cultural heritage

My work on sustainable tourism considers destination change in the context of the pandemic.  This stems from a regional development project called Bio-Cultural Heritage Tourism.  

With colleagues at the CRPR, I have authored reports on the barriers and opportunities to the public procurement of food in the South West, the South West Farm Survey 2020 and the lessons of COVID-19 for the UK food system.

I am interested in impacts of COVID-19 on the food system and the evolution of farm enterprise management after Brexit.

I work across the project lifecycle and have a strong interest in research ethics and governance.  

I have a geographical interest in the South West of England.  Some of my studies have focussed on landscapes designated for their natural and cultural heritage, including the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and Exmoor National Park. 

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Research

• sustainable tourism
• food systems
• farm enterprises
• natural and cultural heritage

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Projects

• Production of comprehensive labour market information for the agricultural and horticultural sectors - funded by: TIAH
• Understanding Public Food Procurement in the HotSW region - funded by: Devon County Council
• Food System Impacts of COVID-19 - funded by: UKRI - ESRC
• BCHT: Bio-Cultural Heritage Tourism - funded by: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• Exploring biodiversity values in the Somerset Levels with ‘ecological entrepreneurs’ - funded by: NERC

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Publications

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2024

• Alamri Y, Wilkinson T, Beckert L. (2024) To the Editor: Academic Prizes and Medals— Whom Are We Really Rewarding?, Journal of Graduate Medical Education, volume 16, no. 2, pages 231-232, DOI:10.4300/JGME-D-23-00948.1.
• Shulruf B, Tumen-Randal S, Poole P, Randal J, Wrench D, Wilkinson T. (2024) How the Medicine and Science programmes can overcome the impacts of low SES secondary school educational disadvantage, Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, volume 28, no. 1, pages 21-27, DOI:10.1080/13603108.2023.2222081.

2023

• Mannes MM, Thornley DJ, Wilkinson TJ. (2023) Cross-cultural code-switching – the impact on international medical graduates in New Zealand, BMC Medical Education, volume 23, no. 1, DOI:10.1186/s12909-023-04900-2.
• Nicholson S, Wilkinson TJ. (2023) Selecting for medical school entry: Nature or nurture?, Family Medicine in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Preparing medical students to work in evolving health care systems, 107-114, DOI:10.1201/9781003325734-17.
• Connell CJW, Salkeld AJ, Wells C, Verstappen AC, Poole P, Wilkinson TJ, Bagg W. (2023) Sample representativeness and influence of attrition on longitudinal data collected as part of a national medical career tracking project, BMC Medical Education, volume 23, no. 1, DOI:10.1186/s12909-023-04472-1.
• Walker S, Reid P, Anderson L, Bull S, Jonas M, Manning J, Merry A, Pitama S, Rennie S, Snelling J. (2023) Informed consent for medical student involvement in patient care: an updated consensus statement, New Zealand Medical Journal, volume 136, no. 1579, pages 86-95.

2022

• Keelan K, Wilkinson T, Pitama S, Lacey C. (2022) Exploring elderly Māori experiences of aged residential care using a kaupapa Māori research paradigm: methodological considerations, AlterNative, volume 18, no. 1, pages 67-74, DOI:10.1177/11771801221086323.
• Wilkinson T, Petersen C, Merrell I. (2022) Tourism between the moors, The Land Between the Moors: Essays in Culture, Environment and Agricultural Change, Beaford.
• Wilkinson T, Winter D. (2022) The land between the moors: a place betwixt and between, The Land Between The Moors: Essays In Culture, Environment And Agricultural Change, Beaford.
• Guilbert S, Winter D, Lobley M, Wilkinson T. (2022) Covid-19 and the UK Food System: Learning Lessons and Building Back Better, Transforming UK Food Systems SPF Programme. [PDF]
• Wilkinson T, Coles T, Petersen C. (2022) Mindful continuation? Stakeholder preferences for future tourism development during the COVID-19 crisis, Tourism Geographies, volume 25, no. 8, pages 1893-1911, DOI:10.1080/14616688.2022.2158216.
• Wilkinson T. (2022) An online survey of tourists who holidayed in Northern Devon in 2021: survey instrument and method.
• Wilkinson T. (2022) Northern Devon Tourism Business Survey 2021: report on a baseline survey for nature tourism.
• Wilkinson T, Nye C, Lobley M, Clappison A, Goodwin A, Hilton J, West H, Thompson S, MacQueen G, Fogerty M. (2022) Public Procurement of Food in the South West Region: opportunites and barriers to relocalising food supply, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter.
• Price S, Wilkinson T, Coles T. (2022) Crisis? How small tourism businesses talk about COVID-19 and business change in the UK, Current Issues in Tourism, volume 25, no. 7, pages 1088-1105, DOI:10.1080/13683500.2021.2023114. [PDF]

2021

• Wilkinson T, Petersen C. (2021) North Devon UNESCO Biosphere Reserve User Survey 2021: survey instrument and method.
• Wilkinson T. (2021) The Future of Tourism in Northern Devon: workshop conducted on the Bio-Cultural Heritage Tourism project.
• Wilkinson T, Petersen C, Bell A, Bearman N, Barbier L. (2021) Tourism pressure and opportunity maps for North Devon Biosphere Reserve: Outputs from a decision-support tool to guide strategic tourism management.
• Wilkinson T, Merrell I, Petersen C. (2021) North Devon Biosphere Reserve - Three Scenarios for the Future of Tourism.
• Wilkinson T, Petersen C, Bell A, Bearman N, Barbier L. (2021) A decision-support tool to guide strategic tourism management: Mapping and modelling tourism pressure and opportunities for sustainable tourism in four UNESCO Biosphere Reserves.

2019

• Seleq S, Jo E, Poole P, Wilkinson T, Hyland F, Rudland J, Verstappen A, Bagg W. (2019) The employment gap: the relationship between medical student career choices and the future needs of the New Zealand medical workforce, N Z Med J, volume 132, no. 1506, pages 52-59. [PDF]
• Wilkinson TJ. (2019) Hidden heritage and secret coves: Analysing a discourse used to communicate about heritage and reflecting on its ontological politics, Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures, 97-109, DOI:10.4324/9781351168526-6.

2018

• Harvey DC, Wilkinson TJ. (2018) Emerging landscapes of heritage, The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge, 176-192, DOI:10.4324/9781315195063.

2017

• Wilkinson TJ, Harvey DC. (2017) Managing the future of the past: images of Exmoor landscape heritage, Landscape Research, volume 42, no. 8, pages 862-879, DOI:10.1080/01426397.2017.1315390. [PDF]

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