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Staff Profile

Dr Jeremy Robert Franks

Senior Lecturer

  • Email: jeremy.franks@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7428
  • Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 7811
  • Address: Room 4.09
    School of Natural and Environmental Science (SNES)
    Agriculture Building
    University of Newcastle
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Introduction

I lecture in farm business management and environmental management

My research interests include all aspects of farm management production and economics and agri-environment policy

 

Background

BSc (Agriculture), University of Reading (1982)

Diploma Agricultural Economics, University of Reading (1991-2)

MSc Agricultural Economics, University of Reading (1992-3)

PhD, Manchester University (1994-6)

Research Associate, Manchester University (1996-1999)

Lecturer in Farm Business Management, Newcastle University (1999-2006)

Senior Lecturer in Farm Business Management, Newcastle University (2006-current)

 

Current Roles and Responsibilities

Stage 3 Hons Option Leader for Farm Business Management

Module Leader for:

Introduction to Farm Management (ace2020),

Farm Business Planning and Control (ace3024) and

Teach on

Introduction to Business Management (ace1033)

Crop Field Course (ace3037)

Agriculture Dissertations (ace3908)

Have taught on

Agricultural Economics and Policy (ace2006)

Climate Change and Land Use: Science, Policy and Impact (ace8069)


Qualifications

Phd (Manchester) Agricultural Economics

MSc (Reading) Agricultural Economics

Diploma (Reading) Agricultural Economics

BSc (Reading) Agriculture

Previous Positions

Research Associate, University of Manchester

Memberships

Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgM)

Informal Interests

Tennis, reading, walking, cycling and body surfing

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mGJ_hdoAAAAJ&hl=en


 


Research

Research Interests

Farm business and enterprise financial analysis

Agri-environmental policy, especially landscape-scale land management and the impacts of climate change legislation on farm management

The structure and function of UK abattoirs

Russian farming systems


Other Expertise

Large-scale postal and on-line surveys
Small-scale, face-to-face on-farm interviews case studies

Analysing survey data

Current Work

Issues relating to landscape-scale, collaborative agri-environmental management

Identifying farm business constraints and their solutions 

The role of abattoirs in the UK

Future Research

Impacts of agricultural and agri-environmental policy reforms on farm management and land use


Research Roles

None

Esteem Indicators

  • 2004/6  Editor Journal of Farm Management
  • 2002 Plenary paper: The Middleton Public Lecture
  • 2003 Plenary paper: Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF)
  • 2003 Plenary paper: the Irish National Dairy Conference in Kilkenny Ireland
  • 2006 Plenary paper: the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists, Oslo
  • 2011 - present Associate Editor Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • 2017 Academic Paper Editor for IFMA 21 Congress in Edinburgh (2-7 July)

Funding

I have received funding from:

  • The Farmers Fund
  • ESRC (Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU))
  • Yorkshire Agricultural Society
  • Water UK
  • European Union
  • The Prince's Countryside Fund 

Industrial Relevance

My work is applied so it has substantial relevance to the agricultural industry.

For example:

  • The analysis of the economics of milk quota
  • Structural change in UK milk producers
  • Potential uptake of sexed semen in suckler cow herds
  • Farmer's attitudes towards collaborative environmental management options
  • Impact of the closure of small abattoirs on farm businesses

Patents

None

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

  • ACE2020   Introduction to Farm Management (ML)
  • ACE3036   Farm Business Management (ML)
  • ACE3024   Farm Business Planning and Control
  • ACE2010   Agricultural Marketing
  • ACE3098   Agriculture Dissertations
  • ACE3037   Crop Field Course
  • ACE1033   Introduction to Business Management

       

 

Publications