Associate Professor James Fogarty is a highly experienced microeconomist.  His personal research focus includes: water use economics, in both urban and agricultural settings; alcohol markets, externalities, and alcohol policy; consumer food demand; and horticulture sector economics, with a particular focus on the wine grape sector. As an active Master and PhD supervisor, each year he supervises research projects covering a vast array of topics in the broad fields of Environmental Economics and Management, and Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness.

Within the university James is known as a passionate educator and he has received several University Excellence in Teaching Awards.  He also contributes to industry skills training through courses available on the Commonwealth Microcredential Marketplace; High School student engagement via a UWA+ starter course; and he maintains an open source applied statistics for Agriculture and Environmental Science teaching website. Since joining UWA James has held in a number of senior leadership positions, including serving a term as Head of School. He has also actively contributed to university governance through membership of Academic Board, Academic Council, and the UWA Senate. James currently serves as custodian of the teaching and research vineyard at the UWA Field Station

James's economics expertise is regularly sought out by government departments and the private sector, and he provides advice and private sector services through UWA Consulting. 

Custodian, UWA Teaching and Research Vineyard 

Co-Editor Journal of Wine Economics

Executive Board Member American Association of Wine Economists

Zero Net Emissions Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre

WaterSmart Dams – making dams work again

Developing capability, awareness, and preparedness for autonomy in the tertiary education sector (GRDC)

SCIE1104 - Science, Society and Data Analysis (S1, S2) 
SCIE4040 - Data analysis with R of Agricultural and Environmental Science (S1, S2)
SCIE4401 - Data use in Sciences (S1, S2)
SCIE4402 - Data Management and Analysis in the Natural Sciences (S1, S2)
SCIE4422 - Research Methods in Agricultural and Environmental Science (S1, S2)
ECON5410 - Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources (S1, S2)
Microcredentials
AGRIM101 - Agriculture, Economics and Nature: Towards 2050 (T4)
SCIEM504 – Using R: Environmental and Agriculture Applications (S1, S2)