Dr Selyf Morgan- ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Career Experience and Qualifications

Selyf Morgan is an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at BRASS working on agri-food issues. He has undergraduate and Masters level degrees in Physics (Heriot-Watt University), a Masters in Science and Technology Policy (University of Sussex), and completed a PhD on knowledge generation and knowledge transfer issues relating to conversion to organic agriculture at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University in 2005. He is currently funded by an ESRC post-doctorate fellowship to work on issues emerging from his PhD thesis.

To date Selyf has worked on a number of research projects including regional economic development, agri-food policy, the entrepreneurial characteristics of farmers, and the procurement of food by the Public Sector in the UK. The latter project was conducted with particular emphasis on the supply of locally produced foodstuffs to public sector institutions.

Research Areas of Interest

Whilst his initial training was in the natural sciences Selyf's interests have developed in areas related to science policy, regional economic development, and latterly on agri-food and agri-environmental issues. Current areas of interest include knowledge generation and learning in agriculture, innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour, and rural development.

Research Projects

Selyf is currently working as an ESRC post-doctorate reseach fellow to develop areas of interest from his PhD thesis.  

Links to BRASS projects

BRASS Working Papers

• BRASS Report (December 2008): Supply Chain Models and Public Sector Local Food Procurement ; Morgan, S; Morgan, K.J.

• BRASS Working Paper (August 2008): Food Hubs: The ‘Missing Middle’ of the Local Food Infrastructure? Morley, A; Morgan, S; Morgan, K

Recent Publications

• Morgan, S.: Article submitted: ‘Multifunctionality and the Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers’; Morgan, S.; Marsden, T.; Miele, M.; Morley, A.
• Chapter in Rudmann, C. (2008) (ed.): Entrepreneurial Skills and their Role in Enhancing the Relative Independence of Farmers: Results and Recommendations from the Research Project ‘Developing the Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers’: viz. ‘The ESOF project within its policy context: CAP Reform, Global Change and the Response of Farmers’; Morgan, S.; Miele, M; Marsden, T.; Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland; available on www.esofarmers.org
• ‘Farmers’ Entrepreneurial Skills in Tuscany’; joint chapter author in Vesala, K. M.; Pyysiäinen, J. (Eds.) (2008): Understanding Entrepreneurial Skills in the farm context; Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland; available on www.esofarmers.org
• Contributing author to a Farm Animal Welfare Quality report. Chapter on ‘Provision of Education on Farm Animal Welfare in the UK’ (forthcoming)
• Contributions (listed contributing author) to the World Bank funded International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD); NAE Chapter: ‘Changes In Agriculture And Food Production In North America and Europe Since 1945’ (2008)
• Chapter in Population Change in Rural Wales: Social and Cultural Impacts: viz. ‘Perceptions of Population Change and the Impacts of Change’ Research Report No.14 (2007), Wales Rural Observatory, Cardiff
• Two chapters in Fairbrother, P.; Morgan, K. (eds.) (2001): Steel Communities Study: Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration’; viz. ‘Inward Investment and Enterprise Development: the Role of Business in Regeneration’ and ‘Economic and Social Characteristics of the Communities’; The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University