Projects per year
Personal profile
Areas of Expertise
Net zero, food and farming; rural economy; British countryside policy and politics; farming and agricultural policy; Common Agricultural Policy; rural environmental controversies; rural and regional development.
Biography
Neil Ward is Professor of Rural and Regional Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He was UEA's Deputy Vice Chancellor and PVC-Academic (2013-21).
Professor Ward began his academic career as a geographer at University College London. His research interests are in rural economic and social change, agriculture, food and environmental policy and regional development. He has held chairs at the University of Leeds and Newcastle University, where he was director of the Centre for Rural Economy from 2004 to 2008. He has also worked for periods on secondment to the Cabinet Office and as an advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council.
Neil is a co-convenor of UKRI's Network+ on "AgriFood4NetZero" which runs from 2022 to 2025 and is author of Net Zero, Food and Farming: Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System (Routledge)
Neil was Chair of the Social Science Panel for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Subject Pilot and a member of the TEF Subject Pilot Main Panel (2017-20). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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AgriFood4NetZero: Plausible Pathways, Practical and Open Science for Net Zero Agrifood
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/22 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Graduate Internships Academic Year 2010
Higher Education Funding Council for England
22/01/10 → 30/03/11
Project: Other
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EVOLVE - Norwich University College of the Arts
Ward, N. & Tzokas, N.
Norwich School of Art and Design
1/05/09 → 30/09/10
Project: Other
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Estimating methane emissions from manure management: A suitable case for treatment?
Ward, N., Atkins, A. & Atkins, P., 2 Sept 2024, In: Environmental Research: Food Systems. 1, 2, 025003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Horses, Power and Place: A More-Than-Human Geography of Equine Britain
Ward, N., 2023, London: Routledge. 206 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: results of a structured expert elicitation
Jones, A., Bridle, S., Denby, K., Bhunnoo, R., Morton, D., Stanbrough, L., Coupe, B., Pilley, V., Benton, T., Falloon, P., Matthews, T. K., Hasnain, S., Heslop-Harrison, J. S., Beard, S., Pierce, J., Pretty, J., Zurek, M., Johnstone, A., Smith, P., Gunn, N., & 37 others , 12 Oct 2023, In: Sustainability. 15, 20, 14783.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Net Zero, Food and Farming: Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System
Ward, N., 4 Aug 2022, 1 ed. Routledge. 268 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Blueprints for rural economy: Philip Lowe's work in rural and environmental social science
Ward, N. & Phillipson, J., Oct 2021, In: Sociologia Ruralis. 61, 4, p. 723-742 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)37 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Ward, Neil (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Election to learned society