Robert John Bennett, FBA (born 1948) is a British geographer. He was Pofessor of Geography (1931) at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2010.
Robert John Bennett, FBA (born 1948) is a British geographer. He was Pofessor of Geography (1931) at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2010.
Born in 1948, Bennett studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1970 and then completing doctoral studies there; [1] his PhD was awarded in 1975 for his thesis "Methods of Dynamic Modelling of Spatial Systems: The Case of North West England". [2]
Bennett was a lecturer at University College London from 1973 to 1978, then a lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1985. He was appointed professor of geography at the London School of Economics in 1985, serving until 1996 when he moved to the University of Cambridge; there, he was Professor of Geography (1931) from 1996 to 2010, as well as a senior associate at the Judge Business School and (from 1996 to 2000) and a Leverhulme research professor (from 1996 to 2000) [3] and a fellow of St Catharine's College (from 1996 to 2010). [4] Since retiring in 2011, he has been an emeritus professor of geography at Cambridge and an emeritus fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. [3]
Bennett was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, an international fellow at the University of Minnesota in 1985, and a university fellow in George Mason University in 1989. [3] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1991. [5] He was general editor of the journal Government and Policy from 1982 to 2008 and co-editor from 2008 to 2016. He was also a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 1998. [4]
Sir Alan Geoffrey Wilson is a British mathematician and social scientist, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and a professor at University College London.
Sir Nigel John Thrift is a British academic and geographer. In 2018 he was appointed as Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, a committee that gives independent scientific and technical advice on radioactive waste to the UK government and the devolved administrations. He is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and Tsinghua University and an emeritus professor at the University of Bristol. In 2016 and 2017 he was the executive director of the Schwarzman Scholars, an international leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2006 to 2016. He is a leading academic in the fields of human geography and the social sciences.
Dame Professor Averil Millicent Cameron, often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She writes on Late Antiquity, Classics, and Byzantine Studies. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, between 1994 and 2010.
Doreen Barbara Massey was a British social scientist and geographer. She specialized in Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography, as well as other topics. She was Professor of Geography at the Open University.
John Richard Urry was a British sociologist who served as a professor at Lancaster University. He is noted for work in the fields of the sociology of tourism and mobility.
Robin Grimsey Osborne, is an English historian of classical antiquity, who is particularly interested in Ancient Greece.
Ronald Leonard Martin FBA FAcSS is professor of economic geography at the Department of Geography University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, research associate of the Centre for Business Research and professorial fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Paul Alexander Slack FBA is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College, Oxford, pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and professor of early modern social history in the University of Oxford.
Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, FBA, FRSL was a British historian specialising in British Imperial, Indian and global history. From 1992 to 2013, he was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
Simon Gaunt was a professor of French literature at King's College London, where he was Head of the French Department and Head of the School of Humanities. He was past president of the Society for French Studies (2006-8), a Fellow of King's College, London from 2015 and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge from 2016.
Peter Haggett is a British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.
Michael Richard Ayers is a British philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Oxford. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and was a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1965 until 2002. Among his students are Colin McGinn and William Child.
Tim O'Riordan OBE DL FBA is a British geographer who is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a prominent British environmental writer and thinker.
Catharine Harmon Edwards is a British ancient historian and academic. She is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger.
Alastair Andrew Hamish Hamilton FBA is an English historian.
Michael Savage, is a British sociologist and academic, specialising in social class. Since 2014 he has been the Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the post traditionally awarded to the most senior professor in the department. In addition to being Head of the Sociology Department between 2013 and 2016, Savage also held the position of Director of LSE's International Inequalities Institute between 2015 and 2020. He previously taught at the University of Manchester and the University of York.
Richard Michael Smith, FBA, FRHistS is a historical geographer and demographer. He was professor of historical geography and demography at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2011, where he is now an emeritus professor, and served as director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (1994–2012). He was also a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1994 to 2010.
Thomas James Samson, FBA, commonly known as Jim Samson, is a musicologist, music critic and retired academic. Educated at Queen's University Belfast (BMus) and University College, Cardiff, he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of Leicester in 1972. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1973 as a lecturer; promotions followed, to reader in 1987 and Professor of Musicology in 1992. In 1994, he was appointed Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and was then Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002 and 2011.
Jane Wills is a British geographer and academic. She is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. She was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2022, in recognition of her contributions to Political Geography.
Sir Henry Clifford Darby, commonly known as Sir Clifford Darby, was a Welsh historical geographer and academic. He was a key figure in the establishment of historical geography as a subject in British academia, and occupied several chairs of geography.
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