Professor Kevin Morgan - Associate Member of BRASS

Career Experience and Qualifications

Kevin Morgan is a Professor of European Regional Development, member of the Urban and Regional Governance Research Group and Director of the Regeneration Institute; he is an associate member of BRASS. He was educated at the University of Leicester and Unviersity of Ontario, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex in 1982. Kevin has been with Cardiff University since 1989 and previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Sussex.

Research Areas of Interest

Innovation and Regional Development; Devolution and the Multi-Level Polity; Sustainable Agri-Food Chains; Regeneration and Self-Managed Communities.

Research Projects

Professor Morgan works on a range of projects which currently include The Welsh Assembly and the Governance of Economic Development Innovation and Quality in the Food Chain, Strengthening the Regional Dimension Steel Communities Study, Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration Social Innovation, and Governance and Community Building.

Publications

BRASS Working Papers

Reports

Morgan, K., Marsden, T. and Murdoch, J. (2006) Worlds of Food: Place, Power and Provenance in the Food Chain, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Cooke, P. and Morgan, K. (1998) The Associational Economy: Firms, Regions and Innovation, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Books

Boekma, F and Morgan, K et al (eds) (2000) Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham).

Morgan, K and Mungham, G (2000) Redesigning Democracy: The Making of the Welsh Assembly (Seren, Bridgend).

Morgan, K and Nauwelaers, C (eds) (1999) Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions (Routledge, London).

Journal Articles

Morgan, K. and Sonnino, R. (2010) The Urban Foodscape: World Cities and the New Food Equation, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 3(2), 209-224.

Morgan, K. (2009) Feeding the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Planning, International Planning Studies, Volume 14(4), 429-436.

Morgan, K. (2006) Devolution and Development: Territorial Justice and the North-South Divide, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 36(1), 189-206.

Morgan, K. (2004) The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity and Territorial Innovation Systems, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 4(1), 3-21.

Morgan, K. (2004) Sustainable Regions: Governance, Innovation and Scale, European Planning Studies, Volume 12(6), 871-889.

Oughton, C., Landabaso, M. and Morgan, K. (2002) The Regional Innovation Paradox, Journal of Technology Transfer, Volume 27 (2).

Morgan, K. (2002) The English Question:Regional Perspectives on a Fractured Nation, Regional Studies, Volume 36 (7).

Morgan, K. (2002) The New Regeneration Narrative: Local Economic Development in the Multi-Level Polity, Local Development, Volume 17 (3).

Morgan, K. (2001) The New Territorial Politics: Rivalry and Justice in Post-Devolution Britain, Regional Studies, Volume 35 (4).

Book Chapters

Morgan, K. (2011) Foodscapes and Landscapes: The Gastro-Geographies of Wales, in P. Milbourne (ed) Geographies of Rural Wales, University of Wales Press, Cardiff (forthcoming).

Morgan, K. (2011) The Green State: Sustainability and the Power of Purchase, in A. Pike et al (eds) Handbook of Local and Regional Development, Routledge, Abingdon.

Morgan, K. (2004) Regions as Laboratories: Innovation, Governance and Sustainable Development, in A. Rainnie (ed) New Regionalism in Australia (Ashgate, London).

Flynn, A. and Morgan, K. (2004) Governance and Sustainability, in M. Thomas and M. Rhisart (eds) Sustainable Regions: Making Sustainable Development Work in Regional Economies (Aureus Publishing, Cardiff).

Morgan, K. and Morley, A. (2004) Creating Sustainable Food Chains: Tapping the Potential of Positive Public Procurement, in M. Thomas and M. Rhisart (eds) Sustainable Regions (Aureus Publishing, Cardiff).

Morgan, K., Lanadabaso, M. and Oughton, C. (2003) Learning Regions in Europe: Theory, Policy and Practice, in D. Gibson et al (eds) Systems and Policies for the Global Learning Economy (Praeger, Westport CT).

Morgan, K. and Henderson, D. (2002) Regions as Laboratories: The Rise of Regional Experimentalism in Europe, in M. Gertler and D. Wolfe (eds) Innovation and Social Learning (Palgrave, London).

Morgan, K. and Rees, G. (2001) Learning By Doing: Devolution and the Governance of Economic Development in Wales, in P. Chaney et al (eds) New Governance-New Democracy? (University of Wales Press, Cardiff).

Morgan, K. and Mungham, G. (2000) Unfinished Business: Labour's Devolution Policy, in J.B. Jones and D. Balsom (eds) The Road to the Referendum (University of Wales Press, Cardiff).

Morgan, K. (1999) Reversing Attrition: The Auto Cluster in Baden-Wurttemberg, in T. Barnes and M. Gertler (eds) The New Industrial Geography (Routledge, London).

Morgan, K. (1998) The Development Agency as Animateur, in H. Halkier and M. Danson (eds) Regional Development Agencies in Europe (Jessica Kingsley, London).

Other Papers / Reports / Articles

Morgan, K. and Price, A. (2011) The Collective Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and the Smart State, published by The Charity Bank, London.

Morgan, K. and Healy, A. (2010) Spaces of Innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, University of Utrecht.

Morley, A., Morgan, K. and Morgan, S. (2008) Food Hubs: The Missing Middle of the Local Food Infrastructure, Report to Welsh Assembly Government.

Morgan, K. (2008) Where's Wales in the Regeneration Game? Western Mail, 3rd January 2008.

Morgan, K. (2004) School Meals and Sustainable Food Chains: The Role of Creative Public Procurement, The 2004 Caroline Walker Trust Lecture, Royal Society, London.

Morgan, K. (2004) Bonfire of the Quangos: The Missing Debate, Agenda, November.

Morgan, K. and Morley, A. (2003) Sustainable Procurement Feature: Comfort Eating, Government Opportunities, December Issue, 2003, pp. 47-49.

Morgan, K. and Morley, A. (2003) School Meals: Healthy Eating and Sustainable Food Chains, The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.

Morgan, K. and Morley, A. (2002) Re-localising the Food Chain: The Role of Creative Public Procurement, The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.

Morgan, K. (2001) Over-Worked, Under-Resourced and Unloved, Agenda: Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Autumn (IWA, Cardiff).

Morgan, K. (2001) The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Localised Learning, Innovation and Uneven Development, Paper delivered to The Future of Innovation Studies Conference, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Technical University of Eindhoven, 21-23 September.

Fairbrother, P. and Morgan, K. et al (2001) Steel Communities Study: Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration, Report to the National Assembly for Wales (Cardiff).

Morgan, K. (2001) The Two Worlds of Objective One, Agenda: The Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Summer (IWA, Cardiff).

 

 




 

 

 

 

Teaching Commitments

Professor Morgan's teaching commitments revolve around four modules: At undergraduate level, Regions and Economic Development, and at postgraduate level, European Policy and Planning, Innovation and Regional Development and The Regeneration Project.

Contact Details

Tel: 029 20 876090
Fax: 029 20 874845
Email: MorganKJ@Cardiff.ac.uk
Room number: 2.66

Department of City and Regional Planning,
Cardiff University,
Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.

Cardiff Business School,
Cardiff University,
Aberconway Building,
Colum Drive,
CARDIFF,
CF10 3EU
UK

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