Example estate management dissertation topic 5:

The right to buy and issues of tenancy in ‘landed’ estates – an evaluation.

This dissertation has two primary research aims. The first is to evaluate the extent to which tenants, nationally, living upon ‘landed estates’ have either exercised a right to buy their property over the last twenty years or been offered the opportunity so to do. The second aim is to evaluate the effects that such ‘privatisation’ would have upon the future working and viabilities of such estates. Arguing that the maintenance of the integrity of estates must come first, this is a dissertation that both theory and practice and would benefit from the undertaking of primary research with both tenants and landlords alike.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Ilbery, B., Maye, D., Watts, D. and Holloway, L. (2010). ‘Property, ownership and landlord-tenant relationships in English agriculture’. In, Winchell, D.G., Ramsey, D., Koster, R. and Robinson, G.M. (eds), Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Change. Brandon: Brandon University Press, pp. 41-60.
• Bryden, J. and Geisler, C. (2007). ‘Community-based land reform: Lessons from Scotland’. Land Use Policy, vol. 24(1), pp. 24-34.
• Munton, R. (2009). ‘Rural land ownership in the United Kingdom: Changing patterns and future possibilities for land use’. Land Use Policy, vol. 26, pp. S54-S61.