Joe Painter

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the ...

(born 1965) is a British geographer and academic. He is as of 2006 a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in the Department of Geography and Associate Director in the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies (ICRDS) at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...

in the U.K.

Education

Painter has degrees in Geography from: *

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

(BA) *The

Open University The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...

(PhD)

Academic career

Painter started to work as a teacher in the 1990s. Between 1991 and 1993 he was a geography lecturer at the

University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...

. Subsequent to this he moved to the

and became Professor there in 2004. During the academic year 2004-2005 Painter was on leave at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

in Canberra, where he was the Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Geography,

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs is a constituent of the College of Asia and the Pacific, but was formerly part of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, which was founded in 1946 as part of the Institute of Advanced ...

(RSPAS). Painter has also become a member of various organizations and magazines: *Between 1996/9 he was editor of the magazine Area. *Since 1997 he has been a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Space and Polity and *Since from 2002 of the Canadian Geographer.

Areas of expertise

* Urban and regional politics and policy * Regional identity * Geographies of citizenship and democracy * Geographies of the state, governance and regulation * Political geographies of European integration * Social and political theory

External links

Painter's website
1965 births Living people Academics of Durham University Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences British geographers {{geographer-stub

Education

Academic career

Areas of expertise

See also

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