Biography
Professor John Morton
Case study author: SOS Uganda
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia.
RIU publication
Morton, John F. (2010) The innovation trajectory of sleeping sickness control in Uganda: research knowledge in its context. Discussion paper/ case study
Other recent publications
Morton, John F. (2010) Development for the world's mobile pastoralists: understanding, challenges and responses. In: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 7Jul 2010, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Morton, John F. (2010) Why should governmentality matter for the study of pastoral development? Nomadic Peoples, 14 (1). pp. 6-30. ISSN 0822-7942 (print) 1752-2366 (online)
Further Information
Prof John Morton, Head of Livelihoods and Institutions, Social Anthropologist
Natural Resources Institute
Contact
Professor John Morton
Case study author: SOS Uganda
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia.
RIU publication
Morton, John F. (2010) The innovation trajectory of sleeping sickness control in Uganda: research knowledge in its context. Discussion paper/ case study
Other recent publications
Morton, John F. (2010) Development for the world's mobile pastoralists: understanding, challenges and responses. In: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 7Jul 2010, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Morton, John F. (2010) Why should governmentality matter for the study of pastoral development? Nomadic Peoples, 14 (1). pp. 6-30. ISSN 0822-7942 (print) 1752-2366 (online)
Further Information
Prof John Morton, Head of Livelihoods and Institutions, Social Anthropologist
Natural Resources Institute
Contact
- Email j.f.morton@gre.ac.uk
- Phone +44 (0)1634 88 3064
- Fax +44 (0)1634 88 3386
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