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Elliot Meador PhD

Research Fellow

SRUC

Biography

Elliot Meador is a computational social scientist and data scientist working as a research fellow within the Rural Policy Centre at SRUC in Edinburgh, UK. His work focuses on mapping rural resilience in Scotland and understanding how policy impacts community resilience. Elliot’s research also looks at how information on sustainable agriculture practices is shared between farmers and how this influences behaviour change related to sustainable development. Elliot’s research spans North America, Europe and Africa.

Interests

  • Sustainable Development
  • Computational Social Science
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Spatial analysis

Education

  • PhD in Rural Sociology, 2016

    University of Missouri

  • PhD in Minor Applied Statistics, 2016

    University of Missouri

  • MSC Community Development, 2010

    Delta State University

  • BSE Social Science, 2008

    Delta State University

Recent Posts

OpenStreetMap Part 1: Leveraging open source data for development work

Introduction Open-source tools for development work allows for the power of big data, machine learning and AI to come together to …
Last updated on Apr 6, 2021 7 min read R, Development

US 2020 Presidental Election and Rural - Urban Divide

Introduction The US Presidential vote count has nearly finished. Trump is fighting the results in court though appears to have lost, …
Last updated on Nov 29, 2020 8 min read R, Rural, Election

U.S. Food Deserts

Introduction A considerable issue today related to food and rural population research are food deserts. Food deserts are a complicated …
Last updated on Aug 16, 2020 13 min read R, Rural

Be like me - looping through shortest distance analysis

Introduction I’ve been doing some work lately on social networks that exist between organisations or institutions. This is nice as it …
Last updated on Jun 5, 2020 8 min read R, SNA

Covid-19 and Rural Areas in the U.S.

First published on 26-April-2020 Last updated on 16-Aug-2020 Introduction Now that we are square in the middle of the Covid-19 …
Last updated on Aug 16, 2020 10 min read R
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Projects

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Transforming and Growing Relationships within regionAl food systems for Improved Nutrition and Sustainability

This project seeks to build briding social capital in the UK food system.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Supporting sustainable and resilient food systems

International Network for Social Network Analysis. Spoke on results from the TGRAINS project. This talk occured virtually due to …
Aug 8, 2020 12:00 AM Paris, Frace

Crop Production in Northern Britian

A talk on findings from a one year investigation of where people get their plant health information online in Scotland.
Feb 22, 2020 12:00 AM Dundee, Scotland
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Featured Publications

August 2019 Journal of Rural Studies

Reaching rural: Identifying implicit social networks in community development programmes

Social network analysis of inter-connected board members in Missouri suggests that networks do not purmeate into rural areas of the state.

Recent Publications

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Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places

Quantitative study of rural community resilience in southwest Scotland.

Placing Rwanda’s agriculture boom: trust, women empowerment and policy impact in maize agricultural cooperatives

Trust in one’s cooperative leadership is most important in predicting the likelihood that someone recommends their coopertive to …

Reaching rural: Identifying implicit social networks in community development programmes

Social network analysis of inter-connected board members in Missouri suggests that networks do not purmeate into rural areas of the …

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