School of Business

Other information

• Member (and former Chairman and Secretary) of the Cirencester Agricultural Discussion Society

• Member of the Institute for Agricultural Management (and formerly a Gloucestershire Branch Committee member) and a member of the Education, Research and Training Committee since 1996

• Former member of the Agricultural Committee of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers (until the merger with the RICS 1st January 2000) and former representative (for ISVA and RICS) on the European Liaison Group for Agriculture (until it was dissolved in 1997)

• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

• Stakeholder representative for the RICS on CAP reform and the ERDP consultation group

• Former member of the RICS Farm Business Skills Panel, the Rural Land and Agricultural Management Practice Panel and Farm Business Benchmarking sub-committee Currently a member of the Countryside Policy Panel.

Link to papers and reports on agri-environment payments:

March 2008 RICS ROOTS 2008 paper with Peter Grey - a case based assessment of ELS participation in Gloucestershire

Read papers on the future for livestock auction markets

March 2008 RICS ROOTS 2008 paper on the future for livestock auction markets

Read RICS CAP Reform briefing papers here

• Member of the Higher Education Academy since 2004

Main teaching subject specialisms

• Farm business management
• Production economics and decision making theory
• Rural estate management
• Joint ventures in farming
• Research methodology
• Agricultural policy
• Agribusiness and the food industry

Training Courses and seminars for external organisations

• Overseas training, research and consultancy
• Peninsula Malaysia (workshops on commercialising educational farms & Prime Minister's demonstration farm project)
• Sabah & Sarawak, Malaysia (workshops on commercialising educational farms)
• Brazil (University of Sao Paulo PENSA seminar & dairy industry convention in Belo Horizente)
• Slovakia (Preparation for EU accession)
• Romania (workshops for Rural Bank staff on lending under free market conditions)
• Ukraine (due dilligence assessment of a farming company)
• New Zealand (research into equity participation arrangements in agriculture)
• USA (research into ownership of farmland by financial institutions)
• Czech Republic (collaboration programme with the Agricultural University of Prague)
• Italy (SOCRATES collaboration programme with the University of Perugia and University of Naples)
• Hungary (ERASMUS collaboration programme with Panon University)
• UK

Lecturing at various times on training courses for organisations including:

• Lloyds TSB
• Coutt's
• Saffrey Champness
• Lawnet
• DEFRA
• RSPB
• Masstock Arable
• Since 2000 - Tutor in Brussels on the Institute for Agricultural Management Leadership course
• Since 2001 - Deputy Director of the John Edgar Memorial Trust Management Development course

Research interests

Joint ventures in farming, corporate farming, land ownership and its funding; rents and rental arbitration; farm incomes and trends in profitability; farm business decision taking and risk analysis; part-time farming and off-farm income; international agri-tourism; set-aside, milk quotas; effects on farm businesses of development e.g. road schemes, mineral extraction and farm building conversion; commercial use of farms used primarily for education training and research; international competitiveness in the dairy industry and UK dairy farm economics; the changing nature of the Common Agricultural Policy and it's effects at farm level; the Single Payment Scheme; cross-compliance; European enlargement; agri-environment schemes and rural development programmes; the impact of BSE; the commercial pressures on livestock auction markets.