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Research Profile

Prof Terry Marsden 


Career Profile

Dean of Graduate Studies, Cardiff University (2008 -)

Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) Cardiff University (2005-10)

Head of School of City and Regional Planning (1999-2009)

Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning (1995 -)

Co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (2002 -)

Director of the Research and Graduate School in the Social Sciences, Cardiff University (2001-02)

Member of the Board of The Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University (2002 -)

Reader in Human Geography, University of Hull (1993)

Co-Director of the Rural Studies Research Centre and the ESRC Countryside Change Centre, University College London (1988-1993)

Senior and Principal Lecturer in Planning, South Bank Polytechnic (1983-91)

Tutor and Temporary Lecturer in Human Geography and Social Policy, University College, Swansea (1979-83)

Memberships / External Activities

A key aspect of my scholarly work involves critical engagement with aspects of environmental and rural policy-making and related research advisory boards and evaluation committees. This has involved influencing emerging policy developments at the EU, UK and devolved administrative levels (both Wales and Scotland). For example, I have recently contributed and completed policy and advisory reports for the EU, UK Govt Strategy Unit; UK Sustainable Development Commission, Scottish Executive, and the National Assembly of Wales. I have held appointed advisory roles with the National Assembly Rural Affairs Committee and the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee. I was invited to be cited in Who’s Who from 2003.

  • Rural Adviser to the Welsh Local Government Association
  • Member of DETR Planning Research Advisory Group
  • Member of ESRC Planning Research Training Panel
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990)
  • Co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (Taylor and Francis)
  • 1993, 1995, 2003 Visiting Professor, Economics and Sociology, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
  • Special Adviser on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee (1997-98, 2001-02)
  • Special Adviser on rural affairs for the National Assembly of Wales (2000-1)
  • Visiting International Readership in European rural development, Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland (2001-)
  • Member of the Wales Rural Partnership
  • Member of the ESRC's Sustainable Technologies Research Programme Commissioning Panel (2002-4)
  • Chair of ESRC's Postgraduate Training Panel for Planning, Housing and Environmental Studies 2004, 2007
  • Member of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit advisory team working on the commercialisation of GM crops
  • Member of the ESRC'/NERC/BBSRC Strategic Advisory Committee for the Land Use and Rural Economy Research Programme
  • Member of the National Assembly for Wales Wales Rural Observatory
  • Member of RAE sub panel (2008) Geography and Environmental Studies
  • Member of National Assembly for Wales Food, Farming and Countryside Strategy Group (2008-)