09 January 2023
Professor Janet Dwyer, Co-director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), has been presented with her OBE medal from the Princess Royal in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Janet was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 for services to rural research over more than three decades.
Janet leads NICRE in the South West and is Professor of Rural Policy at, and a former Director of, the Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) at the University of Gloucestershire, one of its founding university partners. Janet was instrumental in NICRE being established in 2020, alongside the Centre for Rural Economy and Business School at Newcastle University and the Enterprise Research Centre at Warwick University.
In 2021, Janet achieved a lifetime ambition of being elected as President of the UK Agricultural Economics Society, one of the world's leading associations of professional and academic agricultural economists.
Janet said: “I was delighted to receive my OBE medal at Buckingham Palace from the Princess Royal, especially as she lives in Gloucestershire and showed a keen interest in the University’s development and the work of the CCRI.
“The Princess Royal noted our reputation for impactful research, including our collaboration around rural enterprise and innovation with the universities of Newcastle and Warwick in the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise.
“I told her that I felt very lucky to work with such a dedicated and great team of colleagues at the University and the CCRI, as well as our many external partners.
“I hope my award helps to inspire other researchers, particularly younger colleagues, to understand and recognise the impact and significance that their work can have.”
Janet directs and undertakes research related to agriculture, the environment and rural development and her expertise centres on UK and European rural development policy and practice. She joined the CCRI in 2002 after working for more than a decade in a government agency and an independent policy think-tank. She was the Director of the CCRI from 2013 until 2021.
The investiture ceremony took place last month.
Janet said: “I was delighted to receive my OBE medal at Buckingham Palace from the Princess Royal, especially as she lives in Gloucestershire and showed a keen interest in the University’s development and the work of the CCRI.
“The Princess Royal noted our reputation for impactful research, including our collaboration around rural enterprise and innovation with the universities of Newcastle and Warwick in the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise.
“I told her that I felt very lucky to work with such a dedicated and great team of colleagues at the University and the CCRI, as well as our many external partners.
“I hope my award helps to inspire other researchers, particularly younger colleagues, to understand and recognise the impact and significance that their work can have.”
Janet directs and undertakes research related to agriculture, the environment and rural development and her expertise centres on UK and European rural development policy and practice. She joined the CCRI in 2002 after working for more than a decade in a government agency and an independent policy think-tank. She was the Director of the CCRI from 2013 until 2021.
The investiture ceremony took place last month.
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