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Research Profile

Prof Terry Marsden 


  • Over the past 20 years I have been awarded a series of almost continuous UK ESRC research grants which have been associated either with individual or joint standard grants, special research initiatives, or research centre grants. Total research council grants for which I have been a Principal Investigator constitute £9.million since 1989. I have also been in receipt of a series of EU grants, totaling 500K; and research grants from policy making bodies, totaling 500K. I have acted as an external examiner for 30 PhDs in the UK, the Netherlands and Australasia.

    1985-88 : ESRC Project Occupancy Change and the Farmed Landscape

    1989-93 : The Countryside Change Initiative, ESRC, £315,000

    1994-97 : Retailing, regulation and food quality, ESRC, £110,000. Nations Diet Programme

    1994-95 : Global Environmental Change Programme (phase III), ESRC,  £87,000

    1994-95 : Local Government Programme, ESRC,  £45000

    1997-98 : Organic Food Supply Chains in Wales, Welsh Office, WDA, DBRW and West Wales TEC, £15,000

    1998 : Food chains in Wales, DBRW, Food Centre Wales, £30,000.

    1998 : Sectoral Policies in Rural Scotland, Scottish Office, 1998, £15,000.

    1999-2000 : Land Policies and rural Scotland, Scottish Executive, £18,000.

    1999-2002 : The Impact of Rural Development Policies, European Commission, £120,000.

    2000-03 : Forestry and Community in the South Wales Valleys, Forestry Commission, 2000-3, £120,000 (with P Milbourne)

    2001-present : ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, ESRC, £3 million, second phase 2007-11, £5 million

    2003-06 : Rural Governance and Forestry in Wales, Forestry Commission, £108,000 (with P Milbourne)

    2003-06 : Forestry, Community and Social Research in Wales, Forestry Commission, £135,000 (with P Milbourne)

    2003-05 : Going local: regional innovation strategies and the new agri-food paradigm, ESRC £101,817

    2005-07 : Delivering Sustainability: Towards the Creative Procurement of School Meals (with M Miele and K Morgan), ESRC, £120,000

    2005-08 : Welfare Quality. EU Sixth Framework Integrated Project, Retailing Work Package

    2007-08 : ESRC Sustainable Communities Project, £100,000

    2007-09 : EU 6th Framework Project: Enlarging the theoretical understanding of rural development processes, £150,000

    2004-07 : EU 6th Framework grant: Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers, £150,000