Appendix (for web only)

Multi-agency steering group that helped drew up the rural citizens’ panel

Cumbria County Council, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Rural Development Service, Business Link for Cumbria, Environment Agency, North Cumbria Health Authority, Voluntary Action Cumbria, North West Development Agency, National Farmers Union, and local primary care trusts, GPs and health professionals, and veterinary practices.

 

Table A

Composition of rural citizens’ panel

Group

Sex

Age (years)

Occupation

Group 6

M

38

Veterinary surgeon

F

37

Veterinary practice manager

F

32

General practice nurse

F

51

Health visitor

F

49

Health centre manager

F

35

Veterinary surgeon

M

26

Veterinary surgeon

M

36

General practitioner

F

45

District nursing sister

Group 5

F

47

School secretary

M

65

Rural vicar

M

50

Rural vicar

F

52

Infant school teacher

F

37

Resident near disposal site

M

54

Resident near disposal site

F

42

Resident near disposal site

M

58

Resident near disposal site

M

64

Resident near disposal site

F

20

Resident near disposal site

F

41

Resident near disposal site

Group 4

M

39

Environment Agency (seconded to DEFRA)

M

30

DEFRA surveillance

F

57

DEFRA field officer

M

42

Environment Agency (seconded to DEFRA)

M

36

DEFRA field officer

F

40

DEFRA field officer

M

30

DEFRA field officer

M

56

Marksman

M

48

Livestock haulier

Group 3

M

61

Dairy tanker driver

F

42

Agricultural sales assistant

M

37

Agricultural contractor

F

54

Partner in farm supplies business

M

38

Deputy manager, livestock haulage company

F

45

Auction mart worker

M

37

Livestock manager, auction mart

M

67

General manager, farm supplies business

M

33

Slaughter team worker

F

50

Partner in artificial insemination company

Group 2

F

57

Pottery business owner

F

40

Camping – caravan business owner

M

54

Photographer

M

31

Partner in outdoor equipment shop

M

57

Gift shop owner

F

41

Bed & breakfast business owner

F

58

Bed & breakfast /self-catering accommodation owner

M

36

Crafts business owner

Group 1

M

58

Farmer (livestock culled, infected premises)

M

49

Farmer (stock culled, infected premises)

M

32

Farmer (form D restricted farm)

F

43

Farmers wife (stock lost in contiguous cull)

F

24

Farm labourer (contiguous cull)

F

44

Farmers wife (stock culled, infected premises)

F

53

Farmers wife (form D restricted farm)

M

45

Farmer (contiguous cull)

M

51

Farm worker (stock culled, infected premises)

 

 

Table B

Process of analysis (codes, categories & themes)

Personal - professional

Resources

Altered Lifescapes (Box 1)

Stoicism - resilience

Emotion – coping, control

Family - community

Relationships

Division - reconciliation

Negotiation - betrayal

Animal - human

Occupational stress - role changes

Work

Empathy – clients, colleagues

Boundaries – work/home

Place/space changes

Environment

Captivity – ‘house arrest’

Lineages – bloodlines

Insider – outsider

Time-space shrinkage

Timescales

Change & Uncertainty

Trauma & Recovery (Box 2)

Renewal - fragility

Culls - restocking

Trapped - safe spaces

Clean – dirty

Identity

Self-esteem

Pariahs/villains – heroes/altruists

Moral complexities

Senses - sounds, smells, sights

Experiences

Horror - foreboding

Loss – life events

Anniversaries - bereavement

Haunted - possession

War imagery – shared language

Punitive measures

Restrictions

Trust in Governance (Box 3)

Complex organisational change

Funding criteria – ‘victims’

Regeneration

Order – chaos – farce

Management

Conspiracy - trust

Hierarchies - knowledge vacuum

Inquiry politics

Infection ‘lottery’

Risk

Vulnerability

Information – supply/demand

Autonomy - judgement

Probability

Lay - professional

Epidemiologies

Knowledge and Place (Box 4)

Conflicting knowledges

Virus – ‘biblical’, ‘invader’

Trust in science – computer generated

Theoretical - practical

Knowledges

Central -local

Historical

Bureaucratic – Experiential