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Department Of Geography, University Of Cambridge
The Department of Geography is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge and is located on the Downing Site. The department has long had an international reputation as a leading centre of research and is consistently ranked as one of the best geography departments in the UK. In 2022 the department was ranked by ''The Guardian'' University Rankings as the best geography undergraduate degree in the country. (accessed 12 Dec 2022) History There is a long tradition of geography at Cambridge stretching back to the first University Lecturer in Geography appointed in 1888. Teaching was initially for a special examination leading to a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Hulme
Michael Hulme (born 23 July 1960) is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and also a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly professor of Climate and Culture at King's College London (2013-2017) and of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Early life and education Mike Hulme attended Madras College secondary school from 1974 to 1978. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) in geography from the Durham University, University of Durham in 1981 and a Ph.D. in applied climatology from the Swansea University, University of Wales, Swansea in 1985. His doctoral thesis was titled, ''Secular Climatic and Hydrological Change in Central Sudan''. Academic career In 1988, after four years lecturing in geography at the University of Salford, he became for 12 years a senior researcher in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barrett (conservationist)
John Henry Barrett (21 July 1913 – 9 February 1999) was a pioneering conservationist, author and broadcaster, who was the first Warden at Dale Fort Field Centre in Pembrokeshire. Early life and education Barrett was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk. He read Economics and Geography at Cambridge University. Second World War In the 1930s, Barrett joined the RAF and served with Bomber Command, reaching the rank of Wing Commander. During the early part of World War II he was shot down and became a prisoner-of-war. The next years were spent in a succession of prisoner-of-war camps across Germany and Poland: Oflag VI-B (Dössel, near Warburg), Oflag XXI-B (Schubin), Stalag Luft III ( Sagan) (where he was part of the support team for the " wooden horse" escape) and Stalag III-A (Luckenwalde). It was in Oflag VI-B that he met John Buxton, Peter Conder and George Waterston. In their company he developed his lifelong interest in birds, which he later turned to good use in Wales. These four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Crouch
Gabriel Crouch is a British baritone, choral conductor, and record producer. Early life Gabriel Crouch was born on 19 September 1973. Musically inclined since the age of eight, he joined the choir of Westminster Abbey. He became the Head Chorister of that choir and even had a solo at the wedding of Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. He attended the University of Cambridge where he studied Geography. Career He held the second baritone position in the King's Singers for eight years, from 1996 to 2004, including a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2001. He has also performed and recorded with Polyphony, Tenebrae, and The Cambridge Singers among others. Formerly the director of the DePauw University Choral Ensembles, he currently is a professor at Princeton University and directs the Princeton Glee Club The Princeton University Glee Club is the oldest and most prestigious choir at Princeton University, composed of approximately 100 mixed voices. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Crang
Michael A. Crang is the Head of Department in the Department of Geography at Durham University. He is a Professor in cultural geography, with his main research areas relating to the relationship between social memory and identity, theories on space and human perception of space as well as critical theories. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1991 with a first-class degree in the Geographical Tripos and gained a PhD from the University of Bristol. He began working at the University of Durham as a Lecturer in 1994, becoming a Professor in 2011. Crang is the co-editor of two academic journals: ''Tourist Studies'' and ''Time & Society.'' He has also published several books on the topics of cultural geography, most notably ''Thinking Space'', which he co-wrote with Nigel Thrift (2000) and ''Cultural Geography'' (1998). Crang is also the current chair of the Royal Geographical Society's social and cultural research group. He was a senior editor of the ''International Encyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Cox (businessman)
Philip Gotsall Cox CBE (born 22 September 1951 in Birmingham) is the Chief Executive Officer of International Power, the energy company based in London, formed from National Power when Innogy de-merged from it in April 2000. Early life He attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. At Queens' College, Cambridge, he completed an MA in Geography. Career He joined Price Waterhouse in 1973 as a chartered accountant, moving to Lucas in 1977. From 1981 to 1988 he worked for small engineering and marketing companies. He was Chief Financial Officer at Siebe from 1988-99. In 1999 he became Senior Vice-President of Operational Planning at Invensys, in the same year that Invensys was formed from Siebe merging with BTR. In May 2000 he became Chief Financial Officer at International Power when the company was formed, becoming CEO in December 2003 when David Crane left to join NRG Energy. Cox was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Cotton
Bernard James Cotton (born 30 June 1948) is a field hockey coach and former player and captain. He won 73 caps for England and 54 for Great Britain, representing the country at the 1972 Summer Olympics.Former England & GB International Bernie Cotton Awarded MBE England Hockey He went on to serve as Great Britain's assistant manager at the , where the team won a gold medal, and as manager at the , where they finished sixth. Having gained a degree in Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Terence Coppock
John Terry Coppock CBE FBA FRSE (2 June 1921 – 28 June 2000) was a British geographer who was the Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography at University of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1986 and Secretary and Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland from 1986 to 2000. He was a pioneer in three areas of scholarship – agricultural geography, land-use management and computer applications. Early life and war years Coppock was born in Crieff in Perthshire the son of Arthur Coppock and Valerie Margaret Phillips. The family moved to Wales and he was educated at Penarth County School. He left school at 17 in 1938 and became a civil servant in the Lord Chancellor's Department. Shortly afterwards he joined a territorial battalion of the Welsh Regiment, went to camp in August 1939, and did not return to civil life for over seven years. He spent the first two and a half years of military service in various parts of the UK including Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cleary (professor)
Mark Cleary (born 1954) was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford in Yorkshire from 2007 to 2013.Yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk (2007)New VC for Bradford Retrieved 31 October 2007. He took over in 2007 after the previous vice-chancellor, Chris Taylor, retired after 5 years in the position. Early life Born in Birmingham, Cleary earned his Ph.D. in geography from Jesus College, Cambridge. Career In 1980 Cleary took a lecturing post at the University of Exeter. In 1989 he became Senior Lecturer at the University of Brunei Darussalam. After spending 1992 at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, Cleary was appointed Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Plymouth in 1994, being promoted to Reader in Human Geography in 1995 and Professor of Human Geography four years later. In 2003 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business at the University of Plymouth and assumed his Deputy Vice-Chancellor role there in 2004. After the Vice Chancello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Clarke (rugby Administrator)
Roger Clarke is a rugby union administrator from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Personal life Clarke was educated at Royal Tunbridge Wells Grammar school, The Skinners' School where he also played rugby union for the school. Clarke then went on the University of Cambridge, whom he also played rugby for, where he graduated with a geography degree. Professional career Clarke then became a geography teacher until, after taking government-recommended experience in industry, he left teaching to work in various trade federations and dairy companies before becoming the chief executive of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents. As chief executive, he modernised the National Federation of Retail Newsagents by founding their commercial section and creating a symbol group for them called Quix. Rugby administration Clarke is the current chairman of Tunbridge Wells Rugby Football Club. He is also chairman of the Kent Rugby Football Union. In 2013, after responding to an adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Clark
Miles Clark (3 November 1960 – 17 April 1993) was a sailor, journalist and writer from Northern Ireland. A few months before he died, Clark circumnavigated Europe through several of Russia's waterways which led him to winning the Cruising World Medal for Outstanding Seamanship. "Cruising World Medal Outstanding Seamanship Awarded", ''Highbeam'' Early life Born , , Northern Ireland on 3 November 1960, he was the son of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Chant
Sylvia Chant (24 December 1958 – 18 December 2019) was a British academic who was professor of Development Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was co-director of the MSc Urbanisation and Development Programme in the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment. Background She earned her BA at King's College, Cambridge and her PhD at University College London in 1984 (''Las Olvidadas: a study of women, housing and family structure in Queretaro, Mexico''). Chant was a lecturer in Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool from 1987 to 1988, before joining the LSE. She died after a battle with cancer in 2019. Contributions Gender and development research, particularly the 'feminisation of poverty', livelihoods and employment in urban areas. Working in Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines and The Gambia. In the Gambia she has also worked on resistance to female genital mutilation. She is the editor of ''The International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Brummell
Paul Brummell (born 28 August 1965) is a British diplomat and travel writer. Early life Brummell was educated at St Albans School before reading geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1987. Career After stints in Pakistan, Italy, and in Whitehall, Brummell received his first posting as head of a diplomatic mission in 2002, as Ambassador to Turkmenistan. In 2005, he made the relatively short move to head the embassy in Kazakhstan, a position that also includes being non-resident ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.President of Kazakhstan to participate in summit of Turkic states in Antalya GAZETA.KZ That same year his name was among a list of individuals claimed to be serving members of the |
