Teaching interests
Coordinator for Undergraduate Geography Programmes
Sustainable rural business and communities, food production, farm and woodland management
Staff serving as external examiners
2009 External Panel Member - Validation Event for Postgraduate Land Management and Associated Courses, Harper Adams University College, Shropshire
2009 External Panel Member - Validation Event for Undergraduate Land Management Course, Harper Adams University College, Shropshire
2000-2003 External Examiner of MSc Land Management, University of Reading
1999-2002 Academic Assessor for Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Professional Examinations
1998 External Examiner for MSc at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
1995 -1998 Supervisor and Examiner of 2 Baccalaureate+3 students from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Agriculture, Rennes, France
June 1996-2001 External Examiner of BSc(Hons.) Rural Land Management, University of Reading, (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
Research interests
Sustainable rural business and communities, food production, farm and woodland management
Recent research
April 2012 - Plymouth Food for the Public Sector project - funded by the Seale-Hayne
Educational Trust (with Barefoot Partnership Ltd)
June 2011 - EU INTERREG funded project on Marine Energy in Far Peripheral
and Island Communities
May 2009 - 2011
DEFRA, Understanding the environmental impacts of consuming
foods produced locally in season (with ADAS Consulting)
July 2010 National Assembly of Wales, Rural Development
Committee, Review of Local Authority Farms in Wales. Report to Inquiry
on Local Authority Farms in Wales
January 2008 - June 2010,
SWERDA, investigating the socio-economic impacts associated with
the implementation of the Wave Hub off the north coast of Cornwall
at Hayle.
June 2008 DEFRA, Understanding consumer attitudes and actual
purchasing behaviour, with reference to local and regional food and drink
August 2006 Government Office South West and DEFRA, The impact on Cornish
primary producers of Objective One investment in food and non-food
processing businesses in Cornwall
June 2006 CPRE and NFU, Living landscapes: hidden costs of managing the
countryside (with University of Reading)
July 2005 DEFRA, The Effects of Public Funding on Farmers’ Attitudes
to Farm Diversification (with CRR, University of Exeter)
Nov 2004 DEFRA, The Wider Social Implications of Changes in the Structure of
Agricultural Businesses (with CRR, University of Exeter and Imperial College, London)
July 2004 DEFRA, New Entrants to and Retirement from Farming in the UK (with ADAS, Queens University, Belfast and the Scottish Agricultural Colleges)
Jan 2003 DEFRA, Farm Diversification in England and Wales
(with CRR, University fo Exeter)
Mar 2002 Cabinet Office, part-submission to Learned Learned Inquiry
‘Changes in the Occupation of Agricultural Land 1967 – 2002’
(with CRR, University of Exeter and the Meat and Livestock Commission)
Nov 2001 DEFRA, Implications of Changes in the Structure of Agricultural Businesses in England and Wales
Mar 2001 DEFRA, Economic Evaluation of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995
Mar 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,
Economic Evaluation of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995
May 1996 RICS, Farm Business Tenancy Survey
Oct 1994 RICS, County Farms - Past, Present and Future
UoP Research group membership
Centre for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability (CARS)
Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES)
Environment, Society and Governance
Rural Development
Publications
Lobley, M., Baker, J.R. and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2012). Keeping it in the family: International Perspectives on Succession and Retirement on Family Farms. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, Surrey
Wilson, G. A. and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2012). Rural product as a 'relic' spatial strategy in globalised rural spaces: evidence from County Clare (Ireland). Journal of Rural Studies
28:199-207
Bailey, I. West, J. and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2011). Out of Sight but Not out of Mind. Public Perceptions of Wave Energy. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 1(2):129-137
Southern, R., Dawson, A., Strickland, M., Jonas, M., Whitehead, I.R.G. Memery, J. and Shepherd, R. (2010) Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Consuming Foods that are Produced Locally in Season. Report to DEFRA, London
Whitehead, I.R.G. and Millard, N.R. (2010). Local Authority Farms in Wales. Paper to National Assembly of Wales, Rural Development Committee.
Lobley, M., Baker, J.R. and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2010). Farm succession and retirement: some international comparisons. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 1(1):49-64
Megicks, P., Southern, R., Strickland, M., Whitehead, I.R.G, and Shepherd, R. (2008). Understanding of consumer attitudes and actual purchasing behavior with reference to Local and Regional Food and Drink. Report to Defra, London.
Whitehead, I.R.G. and Baker, L.P. (2006). The Impacts of Objective One Investment to Food Processing on Primary Producers in Cornwall. Report to Defra and Government Office South West, Plymouth
Whitehead, I.R.G. and Baker, L.P. (2006) Managing the English Countryside. Report to the CPRE and the NFU, London
Turner, M.M., Whitehead, I. R.G, Millard, N.R. and Barr, D. (2006). The effects of public funding on farmers’ attitudes to farm diversification. Report to DEFRA, London
Lobley, M., Potter, C., Butler, A., Whitehead, I.R.G. and Millard, N.R. (2005). The Wider Social Impacts of Changes in the Structure of Agricultural Businesses. Report to DEFRA, London
ADAS Consulting Ltd, University of Plymouth, Queen’s University, Belfast and Scottish Agricultural College. (2004). Entry to and Exit from Farming in the United Kingdom. ADAS Consulting, Wolverhampton. Report to DEFRA, London
Whitehead, I.R.G., Cowen, H., Millard, N.R., and Uchiyama, T. (2003). Eikoku ni Okeru Shinki San-nyu Mondai - Shuseifu Nojo no Genjo to Kadai (New Entrant Issues in England: the Actual Condition and Challenges on County Farm Estates). Bulletin 937: Nobiyuku Nogyo - Sekai no Nosei (Developing Agriculture - Agricultural Policy in the World). Published in Japanese by Nosei Cho-sa Iinkai (Agricultural Policy Research Committee)
Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter and Rural and Tourism Research Group, University of Plymouth. (2003). Farm Diversification Activities: Benchmarking Study. University of Exeter. Report to DEFRA, London
Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter and Rural and Tourism Research Group, University of Plymouth. (2002). Implications of Changes in the Structure of Agricultural Businesses. Report to DEFRA, London
Winter, M., Turner, M., Palmer, M., Whitehead, I.R.G. and Millard, N. (2002). Desk Research on Developments in Farming Policy and Practice 1967 – 2002. University of Exeter. Report to Foot and Mouth Lessons Learned Enquiry. Cabinet Office, London
Whitehead, I.R.G., Errington, A.J.E. and Millard, N. R. (2002). Economic Evaluation of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995. University of Plymouth. Report for DEFRA, London
Lobley, M., Cowen, H., Shepherd, D., Whitehead, I.R.G., Winter, H. and Winter, M.(2000). CAP Reform as it affects Land Management in the South West Forest. University of Plymouth. Report for the Countryside Agency. Cheltenham.
O’Sullivan, P.E., Taylor, C., Jeffries, M., Jellings, A.J.E., Williams, T.S.C., Harding, S.P., Mackie, M..M., Whitehead, I.R.G. and O’Neill, P. (2000). Sustainability and the Dartington Estate, Devon (UK): Conversion of a famous experiment in human ecology. In Consequences of Land Use Changes. Ed. Mander, U. and Jongman, R.H.G., WIT Press, Southampton.
Whitehead, I.R.G. and Millard, N.R.(2000). Contemporary Issues of County Farms Estates in England and Wales. RICS Research, London. ISBN 18412190172.
Errington, A.J., Millard, N.R. and Whitehead, I.R.G. (1998). The Emerging Shape of Farm Business Tenancies. RICS Research, London. ISBN 0854068942
Whitehead, I.R.G.(1997). How are Farm Business Tenancies Working? RICS Research, London. ISBN 0854068198
Whitehead, I.R.G; Errington, A and Millard, N. (1997). Economic Evaluation of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995. University of Plymouth. Report for MAFF
Whitehead, I.R.G. (1996). RICS Farm Business Tenancy Survey 1996. Report to RICS, London
Smalley, P, Key, T, Knowles, D, Moore, T, Rodger, M, Whitehead, I.R.G, Young, J and Carmody, J. (1995). RICS Guidance Notes on the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995. RICS, London. 60pp plus 3 model agreements
Warren, M.F., Whitehead, I.R.G., Felton, T.J.F., Brunt, P.B., Connell, J. (1995). County Farms, Past, Present & Future. RICS, London
Whitehead, I.R.G.(1995). The Agri Environmental Package. RICS. London
Conference papers
West, J., Bailey, I., and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2009). Stakeholder Perceptions of the Wave Hub, Cornwall.
Conference Proceedings for the 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2009
West, J., Bailey, I., and Whitehead, I.R.G. (2009). Stakeholder Perceptions of Marine Renewable Energy in the South West of England. Royal Geographical Society/IBG Annual Conference, Manchester University, August 2009
Whitehead, I.R.G. (2007) Rural Policy in the UK...in action. Paper to the Rural Development Postgraduate Conference, University of Nitra, Slovakia
Whitehead, I.R.G. (2007) Targeting financial support for the development of sustainable links in land-based production and processing chains: A review of Objective 1 investment in Cornwall, England. Paper to the Common Ground Conference on Sustainability, University of Madras, Chennai, India
Allegra, C., Dorren, L., van Beek, L.P.H, Williams, A.G., Whitehead, I.R.G and Berger, F. (2007). Assessing the stabilising effect of forest cover on landslide-prone terrain in the French Alps. Paper to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
Whitehead, I.R.G. (2006) New Entrants - routes into farming in the UK. Paper to the Rural Futures Conference, Plymouth
Turner, M.M., Whitehead, I.R.G, Millard, N.R. (2006) Embedding farm diversification: contemporary trends and policy development in England. Paper to the Agricultural Economics Society 80th Conference, Paris
Whitehead, I.R.G. (2003) Designs on Quality – Experiences with Rural Land Management courses and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in England and Wales. Paper to the European Conference on Higher Education in Agriculture, Crete
Whitehead, I.R.G., Millard, N.R and Errington, A.J. (2003) The Role of the Farm Business tenancy in Agricultural Restructuring in England and Wales. Paper to the Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Seale Hayne, University of Plymouth
Whitehead, I.R.G., Millard, N.R and Cowen, H. (2000) Contemporary Issues for County Farms Estates in England and Wales. Paper to RICS Roots Research Conference. RICS, London
Reports & invited lectures
2007 Invited paper at the University of Nitra, Slovakia (Socrates Erasmus funded)
2000 Invited lecture at the Institute of Agricultural and Rural Development, Warsaw, Poland (British Academy funded)
2000 Invited lecture at the University of Poznan, Poland (British Academy funded)
1995-2000 EU TEMPUS project with the University of Cordoba, Spain at the State Agrarian University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
1998 Six month teaching exchange to Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
1996 Invited study tour to University of Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain (UoP funded)
1995 Invited study tour to University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic (UoP funded)
