Yr Athro Kevin Morgan
Athro Llywodraethu a Datblygu
- MorganKJ@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76090
- Adeilad Morgannwg, Ystafell Room 2.66, Rhodfa’r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3WA
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n Athro Llywodraethu a Datblygu yn yr Ysgol. Mae fy niddordebau ymchwil yn ymwneud â phedair thema graidd:
- Arloesi / Datblygu Gofodol
- Bwyd / Cynaladwyedd/ Caffael Cyhoeddus
- Datganoli / Llywodraethu/ Gwleidyddiaeth Diriogaethol
- Economi Sylfaenol / Menter Gymunedol / Agenda Lles
Diddordebau ymchwil
Beth sy'n gwneud i leoedd dicio? Dyna un o'r edafedd cyffredin sy'n rhedeg trwy fy niddordebau ymchwil. Dyna pam mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn sut mae gwahanol lefydd - dinasoedd, rhanbarthau, ardaloedd - yn llywodraethu eu hunain; sut a pham y maent yn datblygu mewn ffyrdd mor wahanol; a sut mae costau a manteision datblygiad yn cael eu dosbarthu. Cefnogwyd fy ymchwil gan ystod eang o noddwyr, gan gynnwys ESRC (Cyngor Ymchwil Economaidd a Chymdeithasol), yr Academi Brydeinig; Y Comisiwn Ewropeaidd; OECD; Sefydliad Bill a Melinda Gates/Rhaglen Bwyd y Byd; Sefydliad Joseph Rowntree; Sefydliad Plunkett, a chan lywodraethau ac asiantaethau datblygu yn y DU a'r tu hwnt.
Rhwng 2013-2016 roeddwn yn Brif Ymchwilydd consortiwm o ddeg prifysgol yr UE a dau rwydwaith rhanbarthol a enillodd wobr FP7 am Arbenigedd Smart, polisi arloesi rhanbarthol yr UE ar gyfer cyfnod rhaglennu 2014-2020.
Cafodd ein prosiect a ariannwyd gan ESRC (Delivering Sustainability: The Creative Procurement of School Food in Italy, the UK and the US) ei ystyried yn "rhagorol" ac yn 2013 enillodd y wobr ESRC gyntaf erioed am effaith ragorol ar bolisi cyhoeddus yn y DU.
Addysgu
Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n dysgu ar 1 cwrs israddedig (Daearyddiaeth Wleidyddol) ac 1 cwrs MSc (Datblygu Trefol a Rhanbarthol). Rwyf hefyd yn cyfrannu at y Meistr mewn Arweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus yn Ysgol Busnes Caerdydd.
Ymgysylltu â'r Cyhoedd
- Aelod o Bwyllgor Gwyddonol S4 y Comisiwn Ewropeaidd (2020-)
- Aelod o Fwrdd Pontio CJC Prifddinas-Ranbarth Caerdydd (2021-)
- Aelod o'r Fforwm Strategol ar gyfer Buddsoddi Rhanbarthol yng Nghymru (2021-)
- Aelod o Dîm yr OECD ar gyfer Adolygiad Llywodraethu Aml-lefel Cymru (2019-20)
- Aelod o'r Grŵp Llywio Buddsoddi Rhanbarthol yng Nghymru (2019-2020)
- Aelod o Gyngor Cynghori ar Arloesi Cymru (2019-)
- Aelod o Banel Arbenigol Caffael Llywodraeth Cymru (2020-21)
- Aelod o'r Panel Annibynnol ar Dai Fforddiadwy yng Nghymru (2018-19)
- Ymgynghorydd Arbennig i Gomisiynydd Rhanbarthol a Pholisi Trefol yr UE (2015-2019)
- Cynghorydd i Fwrdd Prifddinas-Ranbarth Caerdydd (2013 -18)
- Ymgynghorydd i Weinidog yr Economi, Gwyddoniaeth a Thrafnidiaeth, Llywodraeth Cymru (2012-14)
- Aelod o Grŵp Cynghori ar Arbenigedd Smart y Comisiwn Ewropeaidd (2011-)
- Aelod o Fwrdd Cyngor Moeseg Bwyd y DU (2008-2014)
- Cadeirydd sefydlu Cyngor Polisi Bwyd Bryste (2011-2015)
- Aelod o Fwrdd y Sefydliad Materion Cymreig (2016-)
- Aelod o Fwrdd Ystadau Cymru/Welsh Estates (2021-)
Newyddion
Ar y blaen polisi arloesi cefais fedal yn 2020 gan Lywodraeth Gwlad y Basg (a elwir yn "Laguna Gwlad y Basg-Euskadi") am fy ngwaith ar fodel arloesi rhanbarthol Gwlad y Basg - ond mae COVID-19 wedi gohirio'r seremoni wirioneddol.
Rwyf hefyd yn un o gyd-gyfarwyddwyr (ynghyd â'r Athro Gill Bristow a'r Athro Rick Delbridge) o'r Ganolfan Ymchwil Polisi Arloesi (CIPR) a sefydlwyd gennym ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd yn 2020.
Ar y blaen llywodraethu roeddwn yn aelod o dîm yr OECD a gynhaliodd adolygiad o Lywodraethu Aml-lefel a Datblygu Rhanbarthol yng Nghymru ar gyfer Llywodraeth Cymru.
Ar flaen y polisi bwyd, cefais fy nghomisiynu i ysgrifennu pennod - Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundation Economy of Food - ar gyfer llyfr newydd cyffrous a olygwyd gan Filippo Barbera ac Ian Rees Jones o'r enw: The Foundation Economy and Citizenship (Policy Press, 2020)
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 52, article number: 100873. (10.1016/j.eist.2024.100873)
- Thompson, M., Cator, C., Beel, D., Rees Jones, I., Jones, M. and Morgan, K. 2024. Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, article number: rsae022. (10.1093/cjres/rsae022)
- Parsons, K., Delbridge, R., Uyarra, E., Waite, D., Huggins, R. and Morgan, K. 2024. Advancing inclusive innovation policy in the UK’s second-tier city-regions. Review of Regional Research (10.1007/s10037-024-00209-9)
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Mundane innovation in the periphery: the foundational economy in a less developed region. Regional Studies (10.1080/00343404.2024.2320769)
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Putting missions in their place: micro missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation. Regional Studies 58(1), pp. 208-219. (10.1080/00343404.2023.2176840)
2023
- Morgan, K. and Wyn Jones, R. 2023. Brexit and the death of devolution. Political Quarterly 94(4), pp. 625-633. (10.1111/1467-923X.13293)
- Jablonski, B. B. R., Milbourne, P., Maderson, S. and Morgan, K. 2023. Considering tradeoffs in “local” food policies: examples from school feeding programmes. Frontiers in Nutrition 10, article number: 1242493. (10.3389/fnut.2023.1242493)
- Kinossian, N. and Morgan, K. 2023. Authoritarian state capitalism: spatial planning and the megaproject in Russia. Environment and Planning A 55(3), pp. 655-672. (10.1177/0308518X221104824)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. The role of state and non-state actors in ensuring the effectiveness of innovation policy. In: Teles, F. et al. eds. Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Communities, Technologies and Impact. Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance (PSSNG) Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 199-214., (10.1007/978-3-031-20577-4_10)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. Governing industrial policy: the scope and limits of the 'good governance' agenda.. In: Bianchi, P., Labory, S. and Tomlinson, P. R. eds. Handbook of Industrial Development.. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 200-214.
- Grillitsch, M., Coenen, L. and Morgan, K. 2023. Directionality and subsidiarity: a regional policy for people and planet. Working paper. Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE).
- Arangueren, M. J., Morgan, K. and Wilson, J. R. 2023. The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies. Regional Studies 57(1), pp. 72-83. (10.1080/00343404.2022.2047917)
- Morgan, K. and Radosevic, S. 2023. Institutional capacity building: Learning from smart specialisation strategies to catalyse innovation partnerships.. In: Schwaag Serger, S., Soete, L. and Stierner, K. eds. The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policy making. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 91-104.
- Kivimaa, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. Multilevel governance, sustainability transitions and the experimentalist turn.. In: Schwaag Serger, S., Soete, L. and Stierner, K. eds. The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policy making. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 105-113.
- Doheny, S., Delbridge, R., Morgan, K. and Henderson, D. 2023. City and growth deals innovation challenge funds: Advice and guidance for Northern Ireland. Technical Report.
- Morgan, K. and Kinossian, N. 2023. Dismantling Londongrad: the dark geography of dirty money. European Planning Studies 32(1), pp. 169-185. (10.1080/09654313.2023.2221283)
2022
- Morgan, K. 2022. Why (mundane) things matter: From moral economy to foundational economy. In: Sanghera, B. and Calder, G. eds. Ethics, Economy and Social Science: Dialogues with Andrew Sayer. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 86-96.
- Morgan, K. 2022. Europe's new regional innovation policy. [Online]. Cardiff University Blog: Cardiff University. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/innovation/2022/06/20/europes-new-regional-innovation-policy/
- Pontikakis, D. et al. 2022. Partnerships for Regional Innovation – Playbook. Luxemboug: Publications Office of the European Union. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2760/775610
- Morgan, K. and Henderson, D. 2022. New models of innovation in old industrial regions. In: Teles, F., Ramos, F. and Rodrigues, A. eds. Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Communities, Technologies and Impact. Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 9-30., (10.1007/978-3-031-20577-4)
2021
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2021. Getting to Denmark: the dialectic of governance & development in the European periphery. Applied Geography 135, article number: 102536. (10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102536)
- Morley, A. and Morgan, K. 2021. Municipal foodscapes: urban food policy and the new municipalism.. Food Policy 103, article number: 102069. (10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102069)
- Calzada, I., Morgan, K. and Jones, I. 2021. Wales and Basque Country cooperation. Presented at: Wales & Basque Country Cooperation, Cardiff, UK, 28 September 2021.
- Morgan, K. and Wright, S. 2021. What the public sector needs to do for the hard hit Welsh food and hospitality sector. [Online]. business-live.co.uk: BusinessLive. Available at: https://www.business-live.co.uk/opinion-analysis/what-public-sector-needs-hard-19818289
- Morgan, K. 2021. Can radical federalism save the UK?. [Online]. redpepper.org: Red Pepper. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/can-radical-federalism-save-the-uk/
- Morgan, K. 2021. After the Pandemic: experimental governance and the foundational economy. Symphonya: Emerging Issues in Management 2021(1), pp. 50-55. (10.4468/2021.1.05morgan)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2021. Innovation without regional development? The complex interplay of innovation, institutions and development. Economic Geography 97(5), pp. 475-496. (10.1080/00130095.2021.1972801)
- Morgan, K., Henderson, D. and Delbridge, R. 2021. Exploring the innovation prospects for Carmarthenshire: A Report prepared for Carmarthenshire County Council. Technical Report.
2020
- Morgan, K. 2020. Foodscapes of hope: the foundational economy of food. In: Barbera, F. and Rees-Jones, I. eds. The Foundational Economy and Citizenship: Comparable Perspectives on Civil Repair. Policy Place
- Gianelle, C., Kyriakou, D., McCann, P. and Morgan, K. 2020. Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future. Regional Studies 54(10), pp. 1323-1327. (10.1080/00343404.2020.1817364)
- Morgan, K. and Webb, B. 2020. Googling the city: in search of the public interest on Toronto's 'Smart' waterfront. Urban Planning 5(1), pp. 84-95. (10.17645/up.v5i1.2520)
- Morgan, K. 2020. The future of place-based innovation policy (as if ‘lagging regions’ really mattered). In: Barzotto, M. et al. eds. Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0. London: Routledge, pp. 79-90., (10.4324/9780367422745)
- Coenen, L. and Morgan, K. 2020. Evolving geographies of innovation: existing paradigms, critiques and possible alternatives. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Geography 74(1), pp. 13-24. (10.1080/00291951.2019.1692065)
- Morgan, K., Navarro, M. and Valdaliso, J. M. 2020. Economic governance in the Basque country: balancing continuity and novelty. Ekonomiaz 35, pp. 170-201.
2019
- Marques, P., Morgan, K., Vallance, P. and Healy, A. 2019. Spaces of novelty: can universities play a catalytic role in less developed regions?. Science and Public Policy 46(5), pp. 763-771. (10.1093/scipol/scz028)
- Waite, D. and Morgan, K. 2019. City deals in the polycentric state: The space and politics of Metrophilia in the UK. European Urban and Regional Studies 26(4), pp. 382-399. (10.1177/0969776418798678)
- Morgan, K. and Sabel, C. 2019. The experimentalist polity. Nesta. Available at: https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/radical-visions-future-government/
- Minto, R. and Morgan, K. 2019. The future of Wales in Europe. Edinburgh Law Review 23(3) (10.3366/elr.2019.0580)
- Morgan, K. and Marques, P. 2019. The public animateur: Mission-led innovation and the 'smart state' in Europe. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 12(23), pp. 179-193. (10.1093/cjres/rsz002)
- Heslop, J., Morgan, K. and Tomaney, J. 2019. Debating the foundational economy. Renewal: A journal of social democracy 27, article number: 2.
- Morgan, K. 2019. Experimental governance and territorial development. Discussion Paper. Paris, France: OECD.
- Pamment, L., Williams, P., Collins, H., Morgan, K., Willmott, R. and Jenkins, P. 2019. Independent review of affordable housing supply - Final Report - April 2019. Project Report. Wales: Welsh Government.
2018
- Marques, P., Morgan, K. and Richardson, R. 2018. Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36(3), pp. 496-512. (10.1177/2399654417717986)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2018. The heroic assumptions of smart specialisation: a sympathetic critique of regional innovation policy.. In: Isaksen, A., Martin, R. and Trippl, M. eds. New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems - Theoretical Advances , Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons. Springer, pp. 275-294.
2017
- Morgan, K., Munday, M. and Roberts, A. 2017. Local economic development opportunities from NHS spending: evidence from Wales. Urban Studies 54(13), pp. 3138-3156. (10.1177/0042098016658248)
- Morgan, K. 2017. Nurturing novelty: Regional innovation policy in the age of smart specialisation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 35(4), pp. 569-583. (10.1177/0263774X16645106)
- Morgan, K., Bugge, M., Coenen, L. and Marques, P. 2017. Governing system innovation: assisted living experiments in the UK and Norway. European Planning Studies 25(12), pp. 2138-2156. (10.1080/09654313.2017.1349078)
2016
- Morgan, K. J. 2016. Speaking truth to power: the political dynamics of public sector innovation. In: Kyriakou, D. et al. eds. Governing Smart Specialisation. London: Routledge
- Morgan, K. J. 2016. Collective entrepreneurship: the Basque model of innovation. European Planning Studies 24(8), pp. 1544-1560. (10.1080/09654313.2016.1151483)
- Marsden, T. K., Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2016. Food Policy as Public Policy: A review of the Welsh government food strategy and action plan. Public Policy Institute for Wales, Cardiff University.
2015
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. 2015. Reframing the foodscape: the emergent world of urban food policy. Environment and Planning A 47(7), pp. 1558-1573. (10.1177/0308518X15595754)
- Morgan, K. 2015. Nourishing the city: The rise of the urban food question in the Global North. Urban Studies 52(8), pp. 1379-1394. (10.1177/0042098014534902)
- Richardson, R., Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2015. Social innovation for an age friendly society. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2014
- Kinossian, N. V. and Morgan, K. J. 2014. Development by decree: The limits of 'authoritarian modernization' in the Russian Federation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(5), pp. 1678-1696. (10.1111/1468-2427.12159)
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The Rise of Metropolitics: Urban Governance in the Age of the City-Region. In: Bradford, N. and Bramwell, A. eds. Governing urban economies: innovation and inclusion in Canadian city-regions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 297-318.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2014. The Public Plate: Harnessing the Power of Purchase. In: Marsden, T. K. and Morley, A. S. eds. Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm. Earthscan Food and Agriculture London: Routledge, pp. 84-102.
- Richardson, R., Healy, A. and Morgan, K. 2014. Embracing social innovation: reflection paper. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The politics of the public plate. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 21(3), pp. 253-260.
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The new urban foodscape. In: Bohn, K. and Viljoen, A. eds. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Making Cities Productive. London: Routledge, pp. 18-23.
2013
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. Re-framing the Foodscape: The rise of cities as food policy actors. Presented at: 5th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference, Montpellier, France, 28-29 October 2013.
- Nicol, P., Smith, A., Morgan, K. and Dunkley, R. 2013. Valleys Regional Park: Interim progress and evaluation report. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. 2013. Path dependence and the state: the politics of novelty in old industrial regions. In: Cooke, P. ed. Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition. Regions and Cities Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 318-340.
- Morgan, K. J. 2013. The new urban foodscape: Planning, politics and power. In: The City as a Farm. Routledge
- Moragues Faus, A. et al. 2013. Urban food strategies: the rough guide to sustainable food systems. Project Report. [Online]. Foodlinks. Available at: http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/fileadmin/documents_organicresearch/foodlinks/publications/Urban_food_strategies.pdf
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. El horizonte etico alimentario: La politica del cuidado. Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global 121, pp. 113-127.
2012
- Crabtree, T., Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2012. Prospects for the future: scaling up the community food sector. Project Report. [Online]. Woodstock: Making Local Food Work. Available at: http://api.ning.com/files/G3ZJNeO5Hoyn*d8ogwwW5ofE8DjfJljkAUjfIQN8QPfvzFkHCAZHAiPAxqci9LhXek68W6ZtzXNmLHelQxEpOXRB*1NbJyMe/1209ScalingUptheCommunityFoodSectorMLFWfinalreport.pdf
- Frank, A. I. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Re-inventing the city: The art of metro-governance in the Stuttgart region. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/sustainableplaces/resources/reinventing-the-city.pdf
- Healy, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Spaces of innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn. Regional Studies 46(8), pp. 1041-1053. (10.1080/00343404.2012.672725)
- Derkzen, P. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Food and the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Governance. In: Viljoen, A. and Wiskerke, J. S. C. eds. Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice. Wageningen: Wageningen University Press, pp. 61-66.
- Morgan, K. J., Munday, M. C. R. and Roberts, A. 2012. Project report: The economic impact of NHS procurement: A study of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board. Welsh Economic Review 23(Spring), pp. 33-34. (10.18573/j.2012.10439)
2011
- Morgan, K. J. and Price, A. 2011. The collective entrepreneur: social enterprise and the smart state. Project Report. Charity Bank and Community Housing Cymru Group.
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. The Green State: Sustainability and the power of purchase. In: Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J. eds. The Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge Handbooks London: Routledge, pp. 87-96.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2011. Researching the Public Plate. Presented at: Researching food sustainability - reflections, challenges and the future agenda, Cardiff.
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. Foodscapes and landscapes: the gastro-geographies of Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 215-234.
- Orme, J. et al. 2011. Food for life partnership evaluation. Full report. Project Report. University of the West of England and Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. The Coming Crisis of School Food: From Sustainability to Austerity?. Welsh Economic Review 22, pp. 32-35. (10.18573/j.2011.10437)
2010
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Local and green, global and fair: the ethical foodscape and the politics of care. Environment and Planning A 42(8), pp. 1852-1867. (10.1068/a42364)
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2010. The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3(2), pp. 209-224. (10.1093/cjres/rsq007)
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2010. Re-thinking school food: the power of the public plate. In: State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability. London: Earthscan, pp. 69-74.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Eco-innovation and the power of purchase. Presented at: 2011 DIME Conference, Cardiff, UK, 17 March 2011.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Food in the City: A New Planning Agenda. Presented at: 2010 Planning Aid Conference, Cardiff.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Healthy Cities: The Role of Food Policy. Presented at: Food and the City Conference, Cardiff.
- Lee, R., Marsden, T. K., Morley, A. S., Morgan, K. J., Sonnino, R., Morgan, S. L. and Bailey, K. S. 2010. Food for Wales, food from Wales: Consultation on a food strategy for Wales. Discussion Paper. Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government. Available at: http://www.wta.org.uk/creo_files/upload/main/100705foodstrategyconsultationen.pdf
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. The Food Movement, Rising: An Exchange [Letter]. The New York Review of Books 57(13)
2009
- Morgan, K. J. 2009. Feeding the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Planning. International Planning Studies 14(4), pp. 341-348. (10.1080/13563471003642852)
- Morgan, K. J. and Jakeway, J. 2009. An ethical alternative to the Casino Economy. Agenda: The Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs Summer, pp. 33-35.
- Morgan, K. J. and O'Hara Jakeaway, J. 2009. Mutualism: an idea whose time has come (again). In: Tomaney, J. ed. The Future of Regional Policy. London: The Smith Institute, pp. 34-39.
2008
- Sonnino, R., Marsden, T. K. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Alternative food networks in comparative perspective: exploring their contributions in creating sustainable spaces. In: Marsden, T. K. ed. Sustainable Communities: New Spaces for Planning, Participation and Engagement. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 255-274.
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2008. The school food revolution: public food and the challenge of sustainable development. Oxford: Earthscan.
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Urban food policies and public procurement: the case of London. Presented at: MGS3 Seminar: Territorial Strategies for Sustainable Food Policies, Leeuwenborch, The Netherlands.
- Morgan, S. L. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Supply chain models and public sector local food procurement. A review for the South West of England Public Sector Food Procurement Project; Supply Chain Project 2008/2009. Cardiff: Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.
- Morley, A. S., Morgan, S. L. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Food hubs: the 'missing middle' of the local food infrastructure?. Cardiff: Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Greening the realm: sustainable food chains and the public plate. Regional Studies 42(9), pp. 1237-1250. (10.1080/00343400802195154)
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Rival Visions: Relative Decline or Regional Renewal?. In: Osmond, J. P. ed. Futures for the Heads of the Valleys. Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 19-35.
2007
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2007. Empowering consumers: the creative procurement of School Meals in Italy and the UK. International Journal of Consumer Studies 31(1), pp. 19-25. (10.1111/j.1470-6431.2006.00552.x)
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal. Regional Studies 31(5), pp. 491-503. (10.1080/00343409750132289)
- Sonnino, R. and Morgan, K. J. 2007. Localizing the economy: the untapped potential of green procurement. In: Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. eds. Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism in Scotland and Beyond. Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, pp. 127-140.
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. School Food Heaven. Food Ethics 2(1), pp. 23.
- Morgan, K. J., Bastia, T. and Kanemasu, Y. 2007. Home grown: the new era of school feeding. Project Report. Rome: World Food Programme.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2007. Making provenance pay: the local food challenge in Shetland. Project Report. Cardiff: The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. The polycentric state: new spaces of empowerment and engagement?. Regional Studies 41(9), pp. 1237-1251. (10.1080/00343400701543363)
2006
- Morgan, K. J. 2006. Devolution and Development: Territorial Justice and the North-South Divide. OUP Publius The Journal of Federalism 36(1), pp. 189-206. (10.1093/publius/pjj003)
- Morgan, K. J., Marsden, T. K. and Murdoch, J. 2006. Worlds of food: place, power and provenance in the food chain. Oxford Geographical and Environmental studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Bristow, G. I. and Morgan, K. 2006. De-industrialisation, the new service economy and the search for post-industrial prosperity. In: Hooper, A. J. and Punter, J. V. eds. Capital Cardiff 1974- 2020: regeneration, competitiveness and the urban environment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 47-67.
2005
- Morgan, K. and Upton, S. 2005. Culling the Quangos. In: Osmond, J. ed. Welsh Politics Come of Age: Responses to the Richard Commission. Cardiff: IWA, pp. 78-99.
2004
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity and Territorial Innovation Systems. Journal of Economic Geography 4(1), pp. 3-21. (10.1093/jeg/4.1.3)
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. Sustainable Regions: Governance, Innovation and Scale. European Planning Studies 12(6), pp. 871-889. (10.1080/0965431042000251909)
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. Regions as laboratories: innovation, governance and sustainable development. In: Rainnie, A. and Grobbelaar, M. eds. New Regionalism in Australia. Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series London: Ashgate
- Morgan, K. J. and Flynn, A. 2004. Governance and sustainability. In: Thomas, M. and Rhisart, M. eds. Sustainable Regions. Cardiff: Aureus Publishing
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2004. Creating sustainable food chains: tapping the potential of positive public procurement. In: Thomas, M. and Rhisart, M. eds. Sustainable Regions. Cardiff: Aureus Publishing
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. School Meals and Sustainable Food Chains: The Role of Creative Public Procurement. Presented at: The Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) Lecture 2004, The Royal Society, London, 3 November 2004.
2003
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2003. School meals: healthy eating and sustainable food chains. Discussion Paper. Cardiff: Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.
- Lanadabasco, M., Oughton, C. and Morgan, K. J. 2003. Learning regions in Europe: theory, policy and practice through the RIS experience. In: Gibson, D. V. et al. eds. Systems and Policies for the Global Learning Economy. International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 79-110.
2002
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The English Question: Regional Perspectives on a Fractured Nation. Regional Studies 36(7), pp. 797-810. (10.1080/0034340022000006114)
- Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. 2002. Regional innovation strategies: the challenge for less favoured regions. Regions and Cities. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge).
- Oughton, C., Landabaso, M. and Morgan, K. J. 2002. The Regional Innovation Paradox. Journal of Technology Transfer 27(1), pp. 97-110. (10.1023/A:1013104805703)
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2002. Re-localising the food chain: the role of creative public procurement. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.lsed-wealth.org/cgi-webaxy/item?172
- Henderson, D. and Morgan, K. J. 2002. Regions as laboratories: the rise of regional experimentation in Europe. In: Gertler, M. S. and Wolfe, D. A. eds. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change. International Political Economy Series Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-226.
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The New Regeneration Narrative: Local Economic Development in the Multi-Level Polity. Local Economy 17(3), pp. 191-199. (10.1080/02690940110155538)
- Morgan, K. J. and Price, A. 2002. Rebuilding our communities: a new agenda for the Valleys. Discussion Paper. London: Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
- Morgan, K. J. and Henderson, D. 2002. Regions as laboratories: the rise of regional experimentalism in Europe. In: Innovation and Social Learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-226.
2001
- Rees, G. M. and Morgan, K. J. 2001. Learning by doing: devolution and the governance of economic development in Wales. In: Chaney, P., Pithouse, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. New Governance - New Democracy?: Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 126 - 171.
- Morgan, K. J. 2001. The New Territorial Politics: Rivalry and Justice in Post-Devolution Britain. Regional Studies 35(4), pp. 343-348. (10.1080/00343400123419)
- Fairbrother, P., Morgan, K. J. and Morgan, S. L. 2001. Inward investment and enterprise development: the role of business in regeneration. In: Fairbrother, P. and Morgan, K. J. eds. Steel Communities Study: Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration. Volume II Thematic Reports - Economic Perspectives. Cardiff: The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University, pp. 109-135.
2000
- Boekema, F. et al. eds. 2000. Knowledge, innovation and economic growth: The theory and practice of learning regions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Mungham, G. and Morgan, K. J. 2000. Redesigning democracy: The making of the Welsh Assembly. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books.
- Boekema, F., Morgan, K. J., Bakkers, S. and Rutten, R. 2000. Introduction to learning regions: A new issue for analysis?. In: Boekema, F. et al. eds. Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory and Practice of Learning Regions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 3-16.
- Morgan, K. J. and Mungham, G. 2000. Unfinished Business: Labour's devolution policy. In: Balsom, D. and Jones, J. B. eds. Road to the Referendum. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 28-49.
1999
- Morgan, K. J. 1999. Reversing attrition: The auto cluster in Baden-Württemberg. In: Barnes, T. J. and Gertler, M. S. eds. The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions. Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Vol. 22. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 74-97.
- Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. 1999. A regional perspective on innovation: From theory to strategy. In: Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions. London: Stationery Office, pp. 1-17.
- Nauwelaers, C. and Morgan, K. J. 1999. The New Wave of Innovation-Oriented Regional Policies: Retrospect and Prospects. In: Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions. London: Stationery Office, pp. 217-230.
- Phelps, N., Morgan, K. J. and Fuller, C. 1999. Regions, governance and FDI: The case of Wales. In: Hood, N. and Young, S. eds. The Globalisation of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 366-389., (10.1057/9780230599161)
1998
- Cooke, P. N. and Morgan, K. J. 1998. The associational economy: firms, regions and innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Morgan, K. J. 1998. Regional renewal: The development agency as animateur. In: Halkier, H., Damborg, C. and Danson, M. eds. Regional Development Agencies in Europe. Regional Policy and Development Vol. 21. London: Jessica Kingsley, pp. 229-252.
1997
- Morgan, K. J. and Henderson, D. 1997. The fallible servant: evaluating the Welsh Development Agency. In: Nationality and Planning in Scotland and Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 77-97.
Articles
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 52, article number: 100873. (10.1016/j.eist.2024.100873)
- Thompson, M., Cator, C., Beel, D., Rees Jones, I., Jones, M. and Morgan, K. 2024. Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, article number: rsae022. (10.1093/cjres/rsae022)
- Parsons, K., Delbridge, R., Uyarra, E., Waite, D., Huggins, R. and Morgan, K. 2024. Advancing inclusive innovation policy in the UK’s second-tier city-regions. Review of Regional Research (10.1007/s10037-024-00209-9)
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Mundane innovation in the periphery: the foundational economy in a less developed region. Regional Studies (10.1080/00343404.2024.2320769)
- Henderson, D., Morgan, K. and Delbridge, R. 2024. Putting missions in their place: micro missions and the role of universities in delivering challenge-led innovation. Regional Studies 58(1), pp. 208-219. (10.1080/00343404.2023.2176840)
- Morgan, K. and Wyn Jones, R. 2023. Brexit and the death of devolution. Political Quarterly 94(4), pp. 625-633. (10.1111/1467-923X.13293)
- Jablonski, B. B. R., Milbourne, P., Maderson, S. and Morgan, K. 2023. Considering tradeoffs in “local” food policies: examples from school feeding programmes. Frontiers in Nutrition 10, article number: 1242493. (10.3389/fnut.2023.1242493)
- Kinossian, N. and Morgan, K. 2023. Authoritarian state capitalism: spatial planning and the megaproject in Russia. Environment and Planning A 55(3), pp. 655-672. (10.1177/0308518X221104824)
- Arangueren, M. J., Morgan, K. and Wilson, J. R. 2023. The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies. Regional Studies 57(1), pp. 72-83. (10.1080/00343404.2022.2047917)
- Morgan, K. and Kinossian, N. 2023. Dismantling Londongrad: the dark geography of dirty money. European Planning Studies 32(1), pp. 169-185. (10.1080/09654313.2023.2221283)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2021. Getting to Denmark: the dialectic of governance & development in the European periphery. Applied Geography 135, article number: 102536. (10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102536)
- Morley, A. and Morgan, K. 2021. Municipal foodscapes: urban food policy and the new municipalism.. Food Policy 103, article number: 102069. (10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102069)
- Morgan, K. 2021. After the Pandemic: experimental governance and the foundational economy. Symphonya: Emerging Issues in Management 2021(1), pp. 50-55. (10.4468/2021.1.05morgan)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2021. Innovation without regional development? The complex interplay of innovation, institutions and development. Economic Geography 97(5), pp. 475-496. (10.1080/00130095.2021.1972801)
- Gianelle, C., Kyriakou, D., McCann, P. and Morgan, K. 2020. Smart Specialisation on the move: reflections on six years of implementation and prospects for the future. Regional Studies 54(10), pp. 1323-1327. (10.1080/00343404.2020.1817364)
- Morgan, K. and Webb, B. 2020. Googling the city: in search of the public interest on Toronto's 'Smart' waterfront. Urban Planning 5(1), pp. 84-95. (10.17645/up.v5i1.2520)
- Coenen, L. and Morgan, K. 2020. Evolving geographies of innovation: existing paradigms, critiques and possible alternatives. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Geography 74(1), pp. 13-24. (10.1080/00291951.2019.1692065)
- Morgan, K., Navarro, M. and Valdaliso, J. M. 2020. Economic governance in the Basque country: balancing continuity and novelty. Ekonomiaz 35, pp. 170-201.
- Marques, P., Morgan, K., Vallance, P. and Healy, A. 2019. Spaces of novelty: can universities play a catalytic role in less developed regions?. Science and Public Policy 46(5), pp. 763-771. (10.1093/scipol/scz028)
- Waite, D. and Morgan, K. 2019. City deals in the polycentric state: The space and politics of Metrophilia in the UK. European Urban and Regional Studies 26(4), pp. 382-399. (10.1177/0969776418798678)
- Minto, R. and Morgan, K. 2019. The future of Wales in Europe. Edinburgh Law Review 23(3) (10.3366/elr.2019.0580)
- Morgan, K. and Marques, P. 2019. The public animateur: Mission-led innovation and the 'smart state' in Europe. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 12(23), pp. 179-193. (10.1093/cjres/rsz002)
- Heslop, J., Morgan, K. and Tomaney, J. 2019. Debating the foundational economy. Renewal: A journal of social democracy 27, article number: 2.
- Marques, P., Morgan, K. and Richardson, R. 2018. Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36(3), pp. 496-512. (10.1177/2399654417717986)
- Morgan, K., Munday, M. and Roberts, A. 2017. Local economic development opportunities from NHS spending: evidence from Wales. Urban Studies 54(13), pp. 3138-3156. (10.1177/0042098016658248)
- Morgan, K. 2017. Nurturing novelty: Regional innovation policy in the age of smart specialisation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 35(4), pp. 569-583. (10.1177/0263774X16645106)
- Morgan, K., Bugge, M., Coenen, L. and Marques, P. 2017. Governing system innovation: assisted living experiments in the UK and Norway. European Planning Studies 25(12), pp. 2138-2156. (10.1080/09654313.2017.1349078)
- Morgan, K. J. 2016. Collective entrepreneurship: the Basque model of innovation. European Planning Studies 24(8), pp. 1544-1560. (10.1080/09654313.2016.1151483)
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. 2015. Reframing the foodscape: the emergent world of urban food policy. Environment and Planning A 47(7), pp. 1558-1573. (10.1177/0308518X15595754)
- Morgan, K. 2015. Nourishing the city: The rise of the urban food question in the Global North. Urban Studies 52(8), pp. 1379-1394. (10.1177/0042098014534902)
- Kinossian, N. V. and Morgan, K. J. 2014. Development by decree: The limits of 'authoritarian modernization' in the Russian Federation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(5), pp. 1678-1696. (10.1111/1468-2427.12159)
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The politics of the public plate. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 21(3), pp. 253-260.
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. El horizonte etico alimentario: La politica del cuidado. Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global 121, pp. 113-127.
- Healy, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Spaces of innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn. Regional Studies 46(8), pp. 1041-1053. (10.1080/00343404.2012.672725)
- Morgan, K. J., Munday, M. C. R. and Roberts, A. 2012. Project report: The economic impact of NHS procurement: A study of the Aneurin Bevan Health Board. Welsh Economic Review 23(Spring), pp. 33-34. (10.18573/j.2012.10439)
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. The Coming Crisis of School Food: From Sustainability to Austerity?. Welsh Economic Review 22, pp. 32-35. (10.18573/j.2011.10437)
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Local and green, global and fair: the ethical foodscape and the politics of care. Environment and Planning A 42(8), pp. 1852-1867. (10.1068/a42364)
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2010. The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3(2), pp. 209-224. (10.1093/cjres/rsq007)
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. The Food Movement, Rising: An Exchange [Letter]. The New York Review of Books 57(13)
- Morgan, K. J. 2009. Feeding the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Planning. International Planning Studies 14(4), pp. 341-348. (10.1080/13563471003642852)
- Morgan, K. J. and Jakeway, J. 2009. An ethical alternative to the Casino Economy. Agenda: The Journal of the Institute of Welsh Affairs Summer, pp. 33-35.
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Greening the realm: sustainable food chains and the public plate. Regional Studies 42(9), pp. 1237-1250. (10.1080/00343400802195154)
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2007. Empowering consumers: the creative procurement of School Meals in Italy and the UK. International Journal of Consumer Studies 31(1), pp. 19-25. (10.1111/j.1470-6431.2006.00552.x)
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal. Regional Studies 31(5), pp. 491-503. (10.1080/00343409750132289)
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. School Food Heaven. Food Ethics 2(1), pp. 23.
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. The polycentric state: new spaces of empowerment and engagement?. Regional Studies 41(9), pp. 1237-1251. (10.1080/00343400701543363)
- Morgan, K. J. 2006. Devolution and Development: Territorial Justice and the North-South Divide. OUP Publius The Journal of Federalism 36(1), pp. 189-206. (10.1093/publius/pjj003)
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity and Territorial Innovation Systems. Journal of Economic Geography 4(1), pp. 3-21. (10.1093/jeg/4.1.3)
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. Sustainable Regions: Governance, Innovation and Scale. European Planning Studies 12(6), pp. 871-889. (10.1080/0965431042000251909)
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The English Question: Regional Perspectives on a Fractured Nation. Regional Studies 36(7), pp. 797-810. (10.1080/0034340022000006114)
- Oughton, C., Landabaso, M. and Morgan, K. J. 2002. The Regional Innovation Paradox. Journal of Technology Transfer 27(1), pp. 97-110. (10.1023/A:1013104805703)
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The New Regeneration Narrative: Local Economic Development in the Multi-Level Polity. Local Economy 17(3), pp. 191-199. (10.1080/02690940110155538)
- Morgan, K. J. 2001. The New Territorial Politics: Rivalry and Justice in Post-Devolution Britain. Regional Studies 35(4), pp. 343-348. (10.1080/00343400123419)
Book sections
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. The role of state and non-state actors in ensuring the effectiveness of innovation policy. In: Teles, F. et al. eds. Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Communities, Technologies and Impact. Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance (PSSNG) Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 199-214., (10.1007/978-3-031-20577-4_10)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. Governing industrial policy: the scope and limits of the 'good governance' agenda.. In: Bianchi, P., Labory, S. and Tomlinson, P. R. eds. Handbook of Industrial Development.. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 200-214.
- Morgan, K. and Radosevic, S. 2023. Institutional capacity building: Learning from smart specialisation strategies to catalyse innovation partnerships.. In: Schwaag Serger, S., Soete, L. and Stierner, K. eds. The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policy making. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 91-104.
- Kivimaa, P. and Morgan, K. 2023. Multilevel governance, sustainability transitions and the experimentalist turn.. In: Schwaag Serger, S., Soete, L. and Stierner, K. eds. The Square: Putting place-based innovation policy for sustainability at the centre of policy making. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, pp. 105-113.
- Morgan, K. 2022. Why (mundane) things matter: From moral economy to foundational economy. In: Sanghera, B. and Calder, G. eds. Ethics, Economy and Social Science: Dialogues with Andrew Sayer. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 86-96.
- Morgan, K. and Henderson, D. 2022. New models of innovation in old industrial regions. In: Teles, F., Ramos, F. and Rodrigues, A. eds. Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Communities, Technologies and Impact. Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 9-30., (10.1007/978-3-031-20577-4)
- Morgan, K. 2020. Foodscapes of hope: the foundational economy of food. In: Barbera, F. and Rees-Jones, I. eds. The Foundational Economy and Citizenship: Comparable Perspectives on Civil Repair. Policy Place
- Morgan, K. 2020. The future of place-based innovation policy (as if ‘lagging regions’ really mattered). In: Barzotto, M. et al. eds. Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0. London: Routledge, pp. 79-90., (10.4324/9780367422745)
- Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2018. The heroic assumptions of smart specialisation: a sympathetic critique of regional innovation policy.. In: Isaksen, A., Martin, R. and Trippl, M. eds. New Avenues for Regional Innovation Systems - Theoretical Advances , Empirical Cases and Policy Lessons. Springer, pp. 275-294.
- Morgan, K. J. 2016. Speaking truth to power: the political dynamics of public sector innovation. In: Kyriakou, D. et al. eds. Governing Smart Specialisation. London: Routledge
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The Rise of Metropolitics: Urban Governance in the Age of the City-Region. In: Bradford, N. and Bramwell, A. eds. Governing urban economies: innovation and inclusion in Canadian city-regions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 297-318.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2014. The Public Plate: Harnessing the Power of Purchase. In: Marsden, T. K. and Morley, A. S. eds. Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm. Earthscan Food and Agriculture London: Routledge, pp. 84-102.
- Morgan, K. J. 2014. The new urban foodscape. In: Bohn, K. and Viljoen, A. eds. Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Making Cities Productive. London: Routledge, pp. 18-23.
- Morgan, K. J. 2013. Path dependence and the state: the politics of novelty in old industrial regions. In: Cooke, P. ed. Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition. Regions and Cities Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 318-340.
- Morgan, K. J. 2013. The new urban foodscape: Planning, politics and power. In: The City as a Farm. Routledge
- Derkzen, P. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Food and the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Governance. In: Viljoen, A. and Wiskerke, J. S. C. eds. Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice. Wageningen: Wageningen University Press, pp. 61-66.
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. The Green State: Sustainability and the power of purchase. In: Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A. and Tomaney, J. eds. The Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge Handbooks London: Routledge, pp. 87-96.
- Morgan, K. J. 2011. Foodscapes and landscapes: the gastro-geographies of Wales. In: Milbourne, P. ed. Rural Wales in the twenty-first century: society, economy and environment. Cardiff: University of Wales, pp. 215-234.
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2010. Re-thinking school food: the power of the public plate. In: State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability. London: Earthscan, pp. 69-74.
- Morgan, K. J. and O'Hara Jakeaway, J. 2009. Mutualism: an idea whose time has come (again). In: Tomaney, J. ed. The Future of Regional Policy. London: The Smith Institute, pp. 34-39.
- Sonnino, R., Marsden, T. K. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Alternative food networks in comparative perspective: exploring their contributions in creating sustainable spaces. In: Marsden, T. K. ed. Sustainable Communities: New Spaces for Planning, Participation and Engagement. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 255-274.
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Rival Visions: Relative Decline or Regional Renewal?. In: Osmond, J. P. ed. Futures for the Heads of the Valleys. Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 19-35.
- Sonnino, R. and Morgan, K. J. 2007. Localizing the economy: the untapped potential of green procurement. In: Cumbers, A. and Whittam, G. eds. Reclaiming the Economy: Alternatives to Market Fundamentalism in Scotland and Beyond. Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, pp. 127-140.
- Bristow, G. I. and Morgan, K. 2006. De-industrialisation, the new service economy and the search for post-industrial prosperity. In: Hooper, A. J. and Punter, J. V. eds. Capital Cardiff 1974- 2020: regeneration, competitiveness and the urban environment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 47-67.
- Morgan, K. and Upton, S. 2005. Culling the Quangos. In: Osmond, J. ed. Welsh Politics Come of Age: Responses to the Richard Commission. Cardiff: IWA, pp. 78-99.
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. Regions as laboratories: innovation, governance and sustainable development. In: Rainnie, A. and Grobbelaar, M. eds. New Regionalism in Australia. Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series London: Ashgate
- Morgan, K. J. and Flynn, A. 2004. Governance and sustainability. In: Thomas, M. and Rhisart, M. eds. Sustainable Regions. Cardiff: Aureus Publishing
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2004. Creating sustainable food chains: tapping the potential of positive public procurement. In: Thomas, M. and Rhisart, M. eds. Sustainable Regions. Cardiff: Aureus Publishing
- Lanadabasco, M., Oughton, C. and Morgan, K. J. 2003. Learning regions in Europe: theory, policy and practice through the RIS experience. In: Gibson, D. V. et al. eds. Systems and Policies for the Global Learning Economy. International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 79-110.
- Henderson, D. and Morgan, K. J. 2002. Regions as laboratories: the rise of regional experimentation in Europe. In: Gertler, M. S. and Wolfe, D. A. eds. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change. International Political Economy Series Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-226.
- Morgan, K. J. and Henderson, D. 2002. Regions as laboratories: the rise of regional experimentalism in Europe. In: Innovation and Social Learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 204-226.
- Rees, G. M. and Morgan, K. J. 2001. Learning by doing: devolution and the governance of economic development in Wales. In: Chaney, P., Pithouse, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. New Governance - New Democracy?: Post-Devolution Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 126 - 171.
- Fairbrother, P., Morgan, K. J. and Morgan, S. L. 2001. Inward investment and enterprise development: the role of business in regeneration. In: Fairbrother, P. and Morgan, K. J. eds. Steel Communities Study: Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration. Volume II Thematic Reports - Economic Perspectives. Cardiff: The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University, pp. 109-135.
- Boekema, F., Morgan, K. J., Bakkers, S. and Rutten, R. 2000. Introduction to learning regions: A new issue for analysis?. In: Boekema, F. et al. eds. Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory and Practice of Learning Regions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 3-16.
- Morgan, K. J. and Mungham, G. 2000. Unfinished Business: Labour's devolution policy. In: Balsom, D. and Jones, J. B. eds. Road to the Referendum. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 28-49.
- Morgan, K. J. 1999. Reversing attrition: The auto cluster in Baden-Württemberg. In: Barnes, T. J. and Gertler, M. S. eds. The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions. Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Vol. 22. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 74-97.
- Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. 1999. A regional perspective on innovation: From theory to strategy. In: Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions. London: Stationery Office, pp. 1-17.
- Nauwelaers, C. and Morgan, K. J. 1999. The New Wave of Innovation-Oriented Regional Policies: Retrospect and Prospects. In: Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions. London: Stationery Office, pp. 217-230.
- Phelps, N., Morgan, K. J. and Fuller, C. 1999. Regions, governance and FDI: The case of Wales. In: Hood, N. and Young, S. eds. The Globalisation of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 366-389., (10.1057/9780230599161)
- Morgan, K. J. 1998. Regional renewal: The development agency as animateur. In: Halkier, H., Damborg, C. and Danson, M. eds. Regional Development Agencies in Europe. Regional Policy and Development Vol. 21. London: Jessica Kingsley, pp. 229-252.
- Morgan, K. J. and Henderson, D. 1997. The fallible servant: evaluating the Welsh Development Agency. In: Nationality and Planning in Scotland and Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 77-97.
Books
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2008. The school food revolution: public food and the challenge of sustainable development. Oxford: Earthscan.
- Morgan, K. J., Marsden, T. K. and Murdoch, J. 2006. Worlds of food: place, power and provenance in the food chain. Oxford Geographical and Environmental studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. 2002. Regional innovation strategies: the challenge for less favoured regions. Regions and Cities. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge).
- Boekema, F. et al. eds. 2000. Knowledge, innovation and economic growth: The theory and practice of learning regions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Mungham, G. and Morgan, K. J. 2000. Redesigning democracy: The making of the Welsh Assembly. Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books.
- Cooke, P. N. and Morgan, K. J. 1998. The associational economy: firms, regions and innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Conferences
- Calzada, I., Morgan, K. and Jones, I. 2021. Wales and Basque Country cooperation. Presented at: Wales & Basque Country Cooperation, Cardiff, UK, 28 September 2021.
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. Re-framing the Foodscape: The rise of cities as food policy actors. Presented at: 5th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference, Montpellier, France, 28-29 October 2013.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2011. Researching the Public Plate. Presented at: Researching food sustainability - reflections, challenges and the future agenda, Cardiff.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Eco-innovation and the power of purchase. Presented at: 2011 DIME Conference, Cardiff, UK, 17 March 2011.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Food in the City: A New Planning Agenda. Presented at: 2010 Planning Aid Conference, Cardiff.
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Healthy Cities: The Role of Food Policy. Presented at: Food and the City Conference, Cardiff.
- Morgan, K. J. 2008. Urban food policies and public procurement: the case of London. Presented at: MGS3 Seminar: Territorial Strategies for Sustainable Food Policies, Leeuwenborch, The Netherlands.
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. School Meals and Sustainable Food Chains: The Role of Creative Public Procurement. Presented at: The Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) Lecture 2004, The Royal Society, London, 3 November 2004.
Monographs
- Grillitsch, M., Coenen, L. and Morgan, K. 2023. Directionality and subsidiarity: a regional policy for people and planet. Working paper. Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE).
- Doheny, S., Delbridge, R., Morgan, K. and Henderson, D. 2023. City and growth deals innovation challenge funds: Advice and guidance for Northern Ireland. Technical Report.
- Pontikakis, D. et al. 2022. Partnerships for Regional Innovation – Playbook. Luxemboug: Publications Office of the European Union. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2760/775610
- Morgan, K., Henderson, D. and Delbridge, R. 2021. Exploring the innovation prospects for Carmarthenshire: A Report prepared for Carmarthenshire County Council. Technical Report.
- Morgan, K. and Sabel, C. 2019. The experimentalist polity. Nesta. Available at: https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/radical-visions-future-government/
- Morgan, K. 2019. Experimental governance and territorial development. Discussion Paper. Paris, France: OECD.
- Pamment, L., Williams, P., Collins, H., Morgan, K., Willmott, R. and Jenkins, P. 2019. Independent review of affordable housing supply - Final Report - April 2019. Project Report. Wales: Welsh Government.
- Marsden, T. K., Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2016. Food Policy as Public Policy: A review of the Welsh government food strategy and action plan. Public Policy Institute for Wales, Cardiff University.
- Richardson, R., Marques, P. and Morgan, K. 2015. Social innovation for an age friendly society. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Richardson, R., Healy, A. and Morgan, K. 2014. Embracing social innovation: reflection paper. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Nicol, P., Smith, A., Morgan, K. and Dunkley, R. 2013. Valleys Regional Park: Interim progress and evaluation report. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Moragues Faus, A. et al. 2013. Urban food strategies: the rough guide to sustainable food systems. Project Report. [Online]. Foodlinks. Available at: http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/fileadmin/documents_organicresearch/foodlinks/publications/Urban_food_strategies.pdf
- Crabtree, T., Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2012. Prospects for the future: scaling up the community food sector. Project Report. [Online]. Woodstock: Making Local Food Work. Available at: http://api.ning.com/files/G3ZJNeO5Hoyn*d8ogwwW5ofE8DjfJljkAUjfIQN8QPfvzFkHCAZHAiPAxqci9LhXek68W6ZtzXNmLHelQxEpOXRB*1NbJyMe/1209ScalingUptheCommunityFoodSectorMLFWfinalreport.pdf
- Frank, A. I. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Re-inventing the city: The art of metro-governance in the Stuttgart region. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/sustainableplaces/resources/reinventing-the-city.pdf
- Morgan, K. J. and Price, A. 2011. The collective entrepreneur: social enterprise and the smart state. Project Report. Charity Bank and Community Housing Cymru Group.
- Orme, J. et al. 2011. Food for life partnership evaluation. Full report. Project Report. University of the West of England and Cardiff University.
- Lee, R., Marsden, T. K., Morley, A. S., Morgan, K. J., Sonnino, R., Morgan, S. L. and Bailey, K. S. 2010. Food for Wales, food from Wales: Consultation on a food strategy for Wales. Discussion Paper. Cardiff: Welsh Assembly Government. Available at: http://www.wta.org.uk/creo_files/upload/main/100705foodstrategyconsultationen.pdf
- Morgan, S. L. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Supply chain models and public sector local food procurement. A review for the South West of England Public Sector Food Procurement Project; Supply Chain Project 2008/2009. Cardiff: Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.
- Morley, A. S., Morgan, S. L. and Morgan, K. J. 2008. Food hubs: the 'missing middle' of the local food infrastructure?. Cardiff: Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J., Bastia, T. and Kanemasu, Y. 2007. Home grown: the new era of school feeding. Project Report. Rome: World Food Programme.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. S. 2007. Making provenance pay: the local food challenge in Shetland. Project Report. Cardiff: The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2003. School meals: healthy eating and sustainable food chains. Discussion Paper. Cardiff: Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University.
- Morgan, K. J. and Morley, A. 2002. Re-localising the food chain: the role of creative public procurement. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.lsed-wealth.org/cgi-webaxy/item?172
- Morgan, K. J. and Price, A. 2002. Rebuilding our communities: a new agenda for the Valleys. Discussion Paper. London: Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Websites
- Morgan, K. 2022. Europe's new regional innovation policy. [Online]. Cardiff University Blog: Cardiff University. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/innovation/2022/06/20/europes-new-regional-innovation-policy/
- Morgan, K. and Wright, S. 2021. What the public sector needs to do for the hard hit Welsh food and hospitality sector. [Online]. business-live.co.uk: BusinessLive. Available at: https://www.business-live.co.uk/opinion-analysis/what-public-sector-needs-hard-19818289
- Morgan, K. 2021. Can radical federalism save the UK?. [Online]. redpepper.org: Red Pepper. Available at: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/can-radical-federalism-save-the-uk/
- Morgan, K. J. 2013. Path dependence and the state: the politics of novelty in old industrial regions. In: Cooke, P. ed. Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition. Regions and Cities Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 318-340.
- Healy, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2012. Spaces of innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn. Regional Studies 46(8), pp. 1041-1053. (10.1080/00343404.2012.672725)
- Morgan, K. J. 2010. Local and green, global and fair: the ethical foodscape and the politics of care. Environment and Planning A 42(8), pp. 1852-1867. (10.1068/a42364)
- Morgan, K. J. 2009. Feeding the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Planning. International Planning Studies 14(4), pp. 341-348. (10.1080/13563471003642852)
- Morgan, K. J. and Sonnino, R. 2008. The school food revolution: public food and the challenge of sustainable development. Oxford: Earthscan.
- Morgan, K. J. 2007. The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal. Regional Studies 31(5), pp. 491-503. (10.1080/00343409750132289)
- Morgan, K. J. 2006. Devolution and Development: Territorial Justice and the North-South Divide. OUP Publius The Journal of Federalism 36(1), pp. 189-206. (10.1093/publius/pjj003)
- Morgan, K. J., Marsden, T. K. and Murdoch, J. 2006. Worlds of food: place, power and provenance in the food chain. Oxford Geographical and Environmental studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Morgan, K. J. 2004. The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity and Territorial Innovation Systems. Journal of Economic Geography 4(1), pp. 3-21. (10.1093/jeg/4.1.3)
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The English Question: Regional Perspectives on a Fractured Nation. Regional Studies 36(7), pp. 797-810. (10.1080/0034340022000006114)
- Morgan, K. J. and Nauwelaers, C. eds. 2002. Regional innovation strategies: the challenge for less favoured regions. Regions and Cities. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge).
- Oughton, C., Landabaso, M. and Morgan, K. J. 2002. The Regional Innovation Paradox. Journal of Technology Transfer 27(1), pp. 97-110. (10.1023/A:1013104805703)
- Morgan, K. J. 2002. The New Regeneration Narrative: Local Economic Development in the Multi-Level Polity. Local Economy 17(3), pp. 191-199. (10.1080/02690940110155538)
- Morgan, K. J. 2001. The New Territorial Politics: Rivalry and Justice in Post-Devolution Britain. Regional Studies 35(4), pp. 343-348. (10.1080/00343400123419)
- Cooke, P. N. and Morgan, K. J. 1998. The associational economy: firms, regions and innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ymchwil
Interests
1. Innovation / Spatial Development
My interest in innovation studies began when I was a Research Fellow at Sussex University in the 1980s: initially in the School of Social Sciences, where I worked with Andrew Sayer and Alan Cawson, and later at the Science Policy Research Unit, where I worked with Robin Mansell and Ian Miles and where we were all inspired by the ideas and integrity of Chris Freeman, SPRU's founding director. But it wasn't until I came to Cardiff, in 1989, that I got the opportunity to explore the spatial dimensions of innovation. Most of my early research in this field was pursued jointly with Phil Cooke, and the main output of this work appeared in 1998 as The Associational Economy: Firms, Regions and Innovation (Oxford University Press, reprinted in paperback in 2000). At the heart of this book was our firmly held belief that innovation - in firms, regions or countries - is a collective social endeavour rather than a product of heroic individuals.
Drawing on the insights of evolutionary political economy (which stresses the significance of uncertainty, bounded rationality, habits and routines and social capital) we sought to show that the regional level was assuming more importance for the design and delivery of innovation policy in the European Union. But we also argued that unilateral action at the regional level was not sufficient because less favoured regions needed the support of national and supra-national authorities to complement regional action.
With the proliferation of regional innovation strategies throughout the EU - from the STRIDE programme in the 1990s to Smart Specialisation more recently - I've become particularly interested in two specific questions. First, why do some regions find it easier than others to craft the institutional networks which are essential to the success of these regional innovation exercises? Second, what constitutes success? That is to say, what indicators should we use to judge whether these regional innovation strategies are yielding any tangible benefits?
These questions were explored in depth in the book I edited with Claire Nauwelaers (Regional Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions, Routledge, 1999), a book we very consciously addressed to the policy and practice communities because regional innovation policy was such a novelty at the time.
One of my abiding theoretical interests in this field concerns the spatial implications of globalization and digitalization, trends that spell the "death of geography" for some people, especially journalists. I explored this question in The Exaggerated Death of Geography (published in the Journal of Economic Geography in 2004), a paper that was originally commissioned by the Centre for Innovation Studies for a conference on The Future of Innovation Studies at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 2001. Among other things, this paper explores the relative claims of physical and virtual proximity in a digital world and concludes by arguing that reports of the 'death of geography' are greatly exaggerated. I returned to the "death of geography" theme in Spaces of Innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn (an article co-authored with Adrian Healy and published in Regional Studies in 2012).
The role of cities and city-regions in innovation is also of great interest and here I have benefited enormously from being attached (as one of the international advisors) to the ISRN research programme in Canada, a programme led by Meric Gertler and David Wolfe of the University of Toronto, two excellent colleagues and friends. Over the past ten years the ISRN programme has produced some of the most compelling research on clusters, cities and city-regions, research that is a model of its kind in being empirically grounded but theoretically informed (www.utoronto.ca/isrn).
The spatial dimension of innovation has received a welcome boost in recent years by the advent of evolutionary economic geography, an exciting new sub-discipline that seeks to integrate the twin fields of innovation studies and economic geography (a convergence I explored in The Learning Region, which was published in Regional Studies in 1997 and reprinted in the 40th Anniversary Classic Papers Supplement of Regional Studies in 2007). One of the criticisms sometimes leveled at EEG is that it pays too little attention to macro-level institutions like the state. To try to overcome this shortcoming, I used an evolutionary perspective to explore the role(s) of the state in Wales, one of the most state-centric countries in Europe. The results of this exercise appeared as Path Dependence and the State: the politics of novelty in old industrial regions, a chapter in a book edited by Phil Cooke called Re-framing Regional Development: evolution, innovation, transition (Routledge, 2012).
These theoretical interests complement my work in the worlds of policy and practice. Recently I have been working with the Regional Policy Directorate of the European Commission on the design and development of Smart Specialisation, the new generation of regional innovation policy for the period 2014-2020. As part of the Mirror Group, which advises the Commission on its new regional innovation policy, I co-authored the new Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/s3pguide). Smart specialization draws on some of the key concepts from evolutionary economic geography - concepts like related variety and path dependence for example - and therefore this experience affords a rare opportunity to explore the links between theory, policy and practice.
2. Food / Sustainability
My interest in sustainable agri-food chains developed from two very different sources: first, from family concerns about the safety and nutritional value of industrialised food and, second, from the stimulating work of my departmental colleagues, principally Terry Marsden, Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdoch (who tragically died at the height of his intellectual career in 2006). Through these personal and professional influences I belatedly began to understand that food - like water and waste - inadvertently reveals a lot about a society. The ways in which food is produced, processed, distributed, consumed and disposed of, have moved centre-stage in the inter-connected debates about democracy, development and wellbeing in the world today: the right to know what chemicals we are consuming with our food requires more robust food labelling regulations; shorter and more localised food chains could offer new development opportunities to crisis-ridden rural areas; and the link between food quality and human well-being needs to be better understood, especially in areas like the South Wales Valleys and Greater Glasgow, where we see some of the worst health records in the European Union.
My academic involvement in agri-food studies began in the mid-1990s when my departmental colleagues and I organised an international conference in Cardiff around the theme of Sustainable Food Chains and Regional Development, an event which attracted a great deal of interest from policy-makers, practitioners and academics. Following this event we secured funds (from a consortium which included the Welsh Office and the Welsh Development Agency) for a project called Organic Food Chains in Wales, an exploratory study of the organic food chain from farm to fork. This formed the basis of our ESRC project on Quality Issues in the Food Chain.
Animated by a concern for sustainable regional development we began to explore the potential for shorter, more localised agri-food chains. For example, we were particularly interested in the fate of the Powys Food Links project, one of the aims of which was to get wholesome local food into local hospitals. This unpretentious aim was blocked by a whole series of regulatory hurdles - including EU directives, so-called Best Value regulations on local authorities and the narrow auditing conventions in health authorities to name but three. This seems a perverse outcome when the powers that be (in Brussels, London and Cardiff) all claim to be actively committed to sustainable development.
Over the past ten years the study of sustainable food systems has absorbed the vast bulk of my research time as a result of two ESRC research projects. The first project (Going Local? Regional innovation strategies and the new agri-food paradigm) ran from 2003-2005 and explored the scope and limits local food networks in England and Wales. The second project (Delivering Sustainability: the creative procurement of school food) ran from 2005-2008 and examined the local procurement of school food in Italy, the UK and the US. Our public procurement research attracted further funding from the UN's World Food Programme, which commissioned us to prepare a report on Home Grown School Feeding, and this eventually appeared as Home Grown: The New Era of School Feeding in 2007. The WFP funding enabled us to extend our creative public procurement research to the world stage by allowing us to conduct case studies of school food systems in Brazil, India, Ghana, Thailand and South Africa. This research led to what (to our knowledge) was the first independent assessment of the potential for Home Grown School Feeding, which signals a radical departure from traditional school feeding models because, while the latter rely on imported food aid, the new models seek to deliver a double dividend by producing nutritious food for children and creating new markets for local producers.
Our school food research had a greater resonance - with politicians, professions and the general public - than any research I've done before or since, a phenomenon I attribute to the zeitgeist and the moral panic about burgeoning rates of childhood obesity. The research results were disseminated in many ways, but principally in The School Food Revolution, which was published by Earthscan and co-authored with Roberta Sonnino. The high point of our school food research was undoubtedly the invite to present the findings in New York to two sessions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in 2009, a truly memorable occasion because it proved that school food reform was an issue that resonated all over the world.
In addition to public food provisioning I am exploring three other food systems, namely: (i) supermarket systems (ii) community food systems and (iii) urban food systems. The supermarket study was part of a BRASS Centre project called Greening the Grocers, which I am doing with Pam Robinson of Birmingham University. The community food system study was funded by the Plunkett Foundation under its Making Local Food Work programme, a project that also involves Tim Crabtree and Roberta Sonnino. Finally, the urban food research is currently a labour of love as I have not yet sought research funding because I decided to invest my time in engaging with urban food pioneers - like Bristol, Brighton, Manchester and Plymouth - who have led the way in the design of urban food strategies in the UK. I was very fortunate to be invited to speak at the conference to launch the Sustainable Food Cities Network in October 2011, an initiative organized by the Soil Association and hosted by Bristol City Council.
The urban food focus builds on and complements the Sustainable Food Planning Group, the thematic group that I coordinate under the auspices of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). Three very successful annual conferences have been held thus far - in Almere, Brighton and Cardiff. The main output of this work to date is Sustainable Food Planning: evolving theory and practice, a book edited by Andre Viljoen and Han Wiskerke and published in 2012 by Wageningen University Press. I hope and believe that this AESOP network can help academic and professional planners to re-imagine their roles and responsibilities in the food system, a system with which they have signally failed to engage until recently.
To complement my academic work on sustainable food systems I am actively involved in the world of food policy in my capacity as a member of: (i) the Food Ethics Council (ii) the Food and Farming Advisory Panel of the Welsh Government and (iii) the Bristol Food Policy Council.
3. Devolution / Governance/ Territorial Politics
My interest in democratic devolution (as opposed to the more restrictive form of administrative devolution) grew out of my work on regional development in the EU. As we explored the vast array of institutional arrangements which made up 'the regional milieu' in Europe, it became clear that the capacity to design and deliver one's own strategy, and the ability to act on locally acquired knowledge without having to secure permission from remote and often indifferent central government departments, was a potential institutional asset for regional economic development. Devolution, in this view, could have a democratising as well as developmental impact: politically, it can help to broaden and deepen democratic structures by creating new democratic spaces in otherwise centralised states; and it has the potential to make a positive contribution to development to the extent that it genuinely empowers local knowledge. For all these reasons I take a particular interest in the principle of subsidiarity (that is, the decentralisation of power to the lowest level that can deploy it effectively).
I have sought to address these issues through public campaigns and through my publications. On the campaign front, I was the chairperson of YES FOR WALES, the pro-devolution campaign in the 1997 Welsh referendum. On the publications front, the most direct exploration of the promise and the practice of democratic devolution is the book Redesigning Democracy: The Making of the Welsh Assembly, which I co-authored with the late Geoff Mungham, one of the funniest guys I've ever known.
Throughout this work I have tried to explore the tensions between subsidiarity and solidarity (the age-old tension between democracy and equality) because devolution creates threats as well as opportunities. Without solidarity societies would degenerate into an autarchy of the rich. Without subsidiarity they would mutate into centralised, remote and impervious bureaucracies. In my view these two principles - solidarity and subsidiarity - are equally essential for a civilised and sustainable society. Hence the dilemma is not to choose between them but, rather, to design robust governance mechanisms which allow us to resolve the tensions which are inevitably generated when they enjoy parity of esteem.
These tensions are especially acute in the context of a multi-level polity like the European Union, where there are at least four levels of governance: local, regional, national and supra-national. As I argued in a Wilton Park report (A Europe of the Regions? The Multi-Level Polity and Subsidiarity in the EU), a multi-level polity raises pressing questions about how one secures social and spatial justice and about how one resolves inter-jurisdictional disputes because it seems tailor-made for passing the buck: each level is keen to claim the credit for success and each is equally keen to absolve itself of failure. The old adage captures it perfectly: success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.
The UK is generally thought to be a stable territorial entity (which is no mean feat given its multi-national character and its southern-centric English bias), but territorial political tensions are never far from the surface. While Scottish nationalism garners most of the media attention, because it could trigger the "Break-up of Britain", there are other territorial narratives competing for political attention - like localism, regionalism and city-regionalism for example. I explored these different territorial narratives in The Polycentric State, which was published in Regional Studies in 2007.
Territorial affiliations and identities were supposed to disappear according to early versions of modernization theory, where they were seen as cultural residues destined to be dissolved in the gastric juices of capitalist modernity and liberal democracy, supposedly its natural bedfellow. Far from disappearing, territorial politics is alive and well in the global north and the global south. What is equally disconcerting for modernization theory is the fact liberal democracy has not been the natural political analogue of capitalist development. The (apparent) success of authoritarian state capitalism in China and Russia suggests that the link between capitalism and democracy is more tenuous than we care to imagine and the variants of capitalism are more numerous than the Varieties of Capitalism literature implies.
I have been trying to understand these complex issues of comparative political economy in the context of a study of Skolkovo, ostensibly Russia's answer to Silicon Valley on the outskirts of Moscow. The outcome of this study is Development by Decree: The Limits of Authoritarian Modernisation in the Russian Federation, a paper co-authored with Nadir Kinossian.
The territorial tensions in the Russian Federation, and I would suggest in China too, will not be resolved until the regions and stateless nations are empowered to choose their own political system. In both countries, an enormous effort is being made by the central state to maintain the territorial integrity of the system as it is presently constituted, which means these countries are less stable than they might appear.
4. Regeneration / Social Enterprise / Mutualism/ Cooperation
Ever since I arrived back in Wales in 1989 I have been consistently struck by the stubbornly high levels of social and economic deprivation in the South Wales Valleys (not that Brighton or Cardiff are without their chronically deprived areas). But coming from Rhigos in the Cynon Valley, I have a strong personal interest in the fate of these communities. The noxious cocktail of deprivation, and what is to be done about it, ebbs and flows in Welsh politics. One of the biggest debates held on the subject was held in Neath in 1992, organised by Peter Hain, the local MP, in association with the social democratic Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Germany. To stimulate the debate Peter Hain asked me to prepare a report, which subsequently appeared as Rebuilding Our Communities: A New Agenda For The Valleys (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1992), a report I co-authored with Adam Price (who is now an Assembly Member and the Economic Spokesperson for Plaid Cymru).
The problems we identified over twenty years ago - social, economic, environmental, political, cultural and cognitive - appear as bad today as they were then. If anything the problems are getting worse because the continuing economic decline of West Wales and the Valleys is now sufficiently serious for us to speak of a developmental crisis in this region.
In recent years politicians and policy-makers have begun to accept that past policies have not worked. Part of the reason for past failures - aside from lack of resources - is that the design and delivery of regeneration policy rarely acknowledged or tapped local knowledge in the targeted communities, hence community involvement was marginal at best. Today's regeneration policies certainly contain all the right rhetoric - partnership working, bottom-up strategy, capacity-building, local ownership etc - but this rhetoric often conceals as much as it reveals and robust evidence-based policy evaluation can shed light on this issue.
For my own part I am particularly interested in the 'citizen's science' approach to regeneration, where local people are directly involved in selecting the indicators and in collecting the data which will ascertain whether a project has enhanced the sense of well-being in a community. This approach, pioneered by the New Economics Foundation, helps to break down the debilitating barriers between regeneration professionals and the communities which are the 'targets' of regeneration programmes. This is an important part of the process which interests me most of all - namely the learning-by-doing process through which communities learn to become self-managing communities. Arguably, this could be conceived as the ultimate form of devolution, a form of civic devolution, in which communities assume more responsibility for governing themselves. I believe that mutualism offers solutions that we have barely begun to explore in a serious way.
Of course the danger here is that governments might be tempted to view this process as a means of abdicating responsibility for the plight of problematical or deprived communities. All the more reason, then, for communities which wish to explore the self-managing road to ensure that their powers and resources are equal to their newly devolved responsibilities. Self-managing communities will need access to funds, training and a wide array of expertise and I like to think that universities can begin to play a more benign role in supporting such communities than they have in the past.
Having been failed by the market and the state, our most deprived communities need to build up their own assets through community-based social enterprises. I sought to make the case for community enterprise in The Collective Entrepreneur, a report commissioned by the Charity Bank and Community Housing Cymru and co-authored with Adam Price. We argued that social enterprises needed a smart state not a shrunken state to realize their potential, an argument that runs completely counter to the conventional political wisdom in Britain today, where a pre-Keynesian mantra would have us believe that austerity budgets are the best route to sustainable economic growth. Our report sought to demonstrate, on empirical and theoretical grounds, that this mantra, while it may serve other purposes, does not serve the cause of our most deprived communities, all of which have an above-average dependence on the public sector.
My public engagement work in this field has covered international and local assignments. I have worked for the European Commission and the OECD and, in 2002-2003, I acted as the advisor to the House of Commons select committee inquiry on regional disparities in the UK (the outcome of which was the select committee report Reducing Regional Disparities in Prosperity). As Dean of Engagement for Cardiff University many of my engagement activities concern the University's Flagship Engagement Projects which cover Community Journalism, City-Regions, Wales for Africa and Community Engagement in Cardiff and Merthyr.
Projects
- Making Local Food Work. Forecast for the Future: Scaling Up the Community Food Sector. Research by Cardiff University for the Making Local Food Work Programme
- Delivering Sustainability: The Creative Procurement of School Food in Italy and the UK (ESRC)
- Home Grown: The New Era of School Feeding (World Food Programme)
- Local Food in a Global Context (ESRC Research Seminar Series)
- Going Local? Regional innovation strategies and the new agri-food paradigm (ESRC)
- Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building (European Commission)
- Territorial Impact of EU R & D Policy (European Commission)
- Steel Communities Study: Implications for Employment, Learning and Regeneration (Welsh Assembly Government)
- The Welsh Assembly and the Governance of Economic Development (ESRC)
- Innovation and Quality in the Food Chain: Strengthening the Regional Dimension (ESRC)
Addysgu
Rwy'n addysgu ar lefelau israddedig ac ôl-raddedig. Ar y lefel israddedig rwy'n rhan o'r tîm addysgu ar fodiwl BSc3 o'r enw Daearyddiaeth Wleidyddol.
Ar y lefel MSc ôl-raddedig rwy'n cyfrannu at 2 raglen MSc, sef:
(i) Datblygu Trefol a Rhanbarthol
(ii) Meistr mewn Arweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus (Ysgol Busnes Caerdydd)
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Qualifications
- DPhil, University of Sussex, (1982)
- MA, McMaster University, Ontario, (1977)
- BA Hons, University of Leicester, (1975)
Career Profile
- Professor, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, (1994 - Present)
- Senior Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, (1993 - 1994)
- Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, (1989 - 1993)
- Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, (1986 - 1989)
- Research Fellow, School of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex, (1982 - 1986)
Public Engagement - Continued from homepage
- Chair of the Welsh Government's Innovation Strategy Task and Finish Group (2012)
- Member of the Welsh Government's City Regions Task and Finish Group (2011-12)
- Member of the Welsh Government's Food and Farming Sector Panel (2011-13)
- Chair of the Centre for Regeneration Excellence in Wales (2010-2013)
- Advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry on Regional Disparities in Prosperity (2006)
- Advisor to the UK Government (Department of Business, Innovation and Skills) on Regional Innovation Strategy (2012)
- Founder and Convenor of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Sustainable Food Planning Group (2009-2013)