Dr Lisa Morgans

Biography 

Senior Lecturer in Animal Health & Welfare

Lisa is a veterinarian, trained facilitator and participatory action researcher with interests in Just Transitions in animal agriculture, Farm Animal Health & Welfare, Medicine stewardship and Technology use.

Lisa leads several modules on livestock and is the programme leader for the Graduate Diploma in Agriculture.

Lisa is currently involved in various research projects ranging from Innovate UK funded industry collaborations on composting dairy farm waste and exploring waste water filtration solutions, to co-designing livestock breeding strategies that contribute to Net Zero targets but are also ethical, practical and economic for farmers to implement. Lisa is also a work package leader in a Horizon Europe funded project called BroilerNet, which aims to improve the sustainability of the chicken meat sector across Europe through collaborative and facilitated innovation networks. Lisa is a firm believer in farmer-led innovation to tackle the challenges facing our food system and is leading a training & support programme for researchers to improve capacity & confidence in participatory approaches in agricultural research.

See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030220309735

Recent work includes leading the qualitative investigation of UK farmers’ perceptions of cultured meat for the Cultured Meat & Farmers project, which ended in 2024. Lisa has also worked on mapping evidence around co-production techniques in food systems transformation as well as co-founding a Transdisciplinary Network on tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food System (AMAST) funded by the BBSRC.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Bristol, 2019
  • BVSc, MRCVS, University of Bristol, 2013

Membership of professional bodies

  • MRCVS
  • Trustee for Innovation for Agriculture
  • I am an active member of the Agricultural Universities Council, led by the RAU and Centre for Effective Innovation in Agriculture.
  • I am also a founding member of the new AMAST network (a BBSRC funded transdisciplinary network across the food system addressing AMR) and an active member in the CRILS network (Critical Research into Industrial Livestock Systems).

Research

Knowledge Exchange, Facilitation, Participatory approaches, Farmer-led innovation, Regenerative agriculture, Farm animal health & welfare, Antimicrobial Resistance, Medicine use.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8269-7061

  1. Work package leader for Horizon Europe funded BroilerNet (2022-2026), which aims to improve the sustainability of the broiler sector through the establishment & coordination of innovation networks that support knowledge exchange between industry practice and scientific research. https://broilernet.eu/
  2. Project manager of an Innovate UK funded Research Starter supporting local farmers with a pilot into composting dairy farm waste.
  3. Project manager for a 2-year Rothschild Trust funded piece of work looking at delivering training and support to UK-based researchers on farmer-led innovation and applying participatory approaches in agricultural projects.
  4. Co-PI for a 1-year scoping study funded by the Agri-food for Net Zero Network to co-design livestock breeding strategies for cattle and sheep that contribute to achieving Net Zero.

Previous research projects

Current PhD students

Jennifer Howse – understanding landscapes of support for famer wellbeing in the ruminant sector.

Completed PhD students

Mukhtar Mohammad – social discourse & narratives around positive animal welfare https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36230322/

PhD examining experience

First one planned for 2025, University of Reading PhD candidate.

Teaching

Module leader for:

  • Livestock Husbandry Systems (2375)
  • Livestock Systems Challenges & Solutions (3339)
  • Livestock production Technology & Innovation (4726)
  • Support Applied Animal Science, Farm Animal Health & Welfare and Climate Change & Natural Resource Challenges

External engagement and impact

  • Joint winner for the Public Health England Antibiotic Guardian Award (2019)

Publications

https://rau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/user/45

  • McIntyre KM, Khan M, Betson M, Brunton L, Degiovanni HB, Desbois AP, Eltholth M, Hurley P, Lisa Morgans, John E. Pearl, Sakrabani R, Shortall O, Watson K, Cole J, Understanding the interests of academics from diverse disciplines to identify the prospective focus for a UK-based transdisciplinary network involving farm-to-fork stakeholders on antimicrobial resistance in agrifood systems: An online survey, One Health, Volume 19, 2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100884
  • Shaw N., Hardman C., Boyle N., Craven J., Dooley J., Mead B., Morgans L., Mumby H., Pettinger C., (2024), What does ‘co-production’ look like for food system transformation? Mapping the evidence across Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) projects. Nutritional Bulletin.
  • Manning L., Dooley J., Dunsford I., Goodman M.K., Macmillan T.C., Morgans L.C., Rose D.C., Sexton A.E. (2023). Threat or Opportunity? An analysis of perceptions of cultured meat in the UK farming sector. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1277511. doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1277511
  • Aplin K, Morgans L, Palczynski L, Main D, Debbaut C, Hepworth L, et al. (2023). Calf health veterinary services: Making them work for calves, farmers and veterinarians. Vet Record. e3051. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3051 Contribution – 50% co-design of the project,
  • Innovation for Agriculture, Eunomia & WWF-Tesco, (2022). The go-to guide on reducing greenhouse gas emissions at farm-level. tinyurl.com/Go2GuideReducingFarmEmissions
  • Muhammad M., Stokes J.E., Morgans L., Manning L. (2022). The Social Construction of Narratives and Arguments in Animal Welfare Discourse and Debate. Animals, 12, 2582. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/19/2582
  • Morgans L. (2021).  Getting more out of farmer meetings: a practical guide for advisors. UK Livestock. Vol 26:1 https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2021.26.1.41
  • Buller H., Adam K., Bard A., Bruce A., (Ray)Chan K.W., Hinchliffe S., Morgans L., Rees G and Reyher KK. (2020). Veterinary Diagnostic Practice and the Use of Rapid Tests in Antimicrobial Stewardship on UK Livestock Farms. Frontiers Veterinary Science. 7:569545. doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.569545
  • Chan K.W, Bard A.M, Adam K.E, Rees G.M, Morgans L., Cresswell L., Hinchliffe S., Barrett D.C., Reyher K.K., Buller H. (2020). Diagnostics and the challenge of antimicrobial resistance: a survey of UK livestock veterinarians' perceptions and practices. Vet Record. 187(12). doi: 10.1136/vr.105822.
  • Morgans L., Bolt S., Bruno-McClung E., van Dijk L., Escobar M., Buller H., Main D., Reyher K. (2020). Farmer Action Groups: A participatory, farmer-led approach to changing practices around antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms. Journal of Dairy Science. Vol 104: 2 https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2020-18874
  • Morgans L. A participatory, farmer-led approach to changing practice around antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms. (2019). Doctoral Thesis. University of Bristol
  • Morgans L.,  Reyher K.K, Barrett D.C, Turner A, Bellini J, Elkins P, Clarke T. (2019). Changing farmer and veterinarian behaviour around antimicrobial use. UK Vet Livestock. Vol 24. https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2019.24.2.75
  • Mills H.L., Turner A., Morgans L., Massey J., Schubert H., Rees G., Barrett D., Dowsey A. and Reyher K.K. (2018), Evaluation of metrics for benchmarking antimicrobial use in the UK dairy industry. Veterinary Record, 182: 379-379. https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104701