TYMS Lecturer Attracting Attention

Posted on 12 July 2012

Research led by Dr Ignazio Cabras from the Operations Management Group is generating a great deal of media attention.

Image showing Dr Ignazio Cabras

Dr Cabras is currently exploring and analysing the role of village pubs in creating community cohesion, social capital and engagement, and economic wellbeing in rural areas of England. 

Having witnessed the disappointment and negative effect pub closures have on rural communities he wants to give these communities the support they need to maintain their own local pubs. He aims to quantify the associated benefits in villages that do have pubs to those that don’t.

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Watch Dr Cabras’s interview on BBC’s Look North