Dr Sonja Rewhorn CGeog
Employer Name
Department of Geography and International Development, University of Chester
Biography
Sonja Rewhorn (FRGS) is a Visiting Lecturer for the Department of Geography and Development Studies and is in the early stages of her PhD on 'Rural Proofing' - Has the mechanism of rural proofing become effective and inherent in policy development process in England? Previously Sonja was a volunteer researcher at the University of Plymouth and Bournemouth University (November 2010 to September 2011). Since June 2003 (until June 2011) Sonja worked for the UK Government. Sonja was the Assistant Director for regional strategies across south east England and was Head of socio-economic rural policy for northwest England. Prior to working for the UK Government Sonja worked for local government developing and implementing environment and rural policies across unitary authorities of Bradford Council and the London Borough of Merton. Sonja's research interests are; rural proofing and rural socio-economic policy; community governance and community engagement in policy making; reflective and experiential research in democratic decision making; rural systems; developing policy in the digital age; pedagogy with practioners through action learning, particularly Japan.