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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 is consistently rated amongst the best Geography departments in the world, in rankings tables. History There is a long tradition of geography at Cambridge stretching back to the first University Lecturer in Geography, Henry Guillemard, appointed in 1888 which was funded by the Royal Geographical Society, which was keen to promote the teaching of Geography at Oxford and Cambridge. Teaching was initially for a special examination leading to a diploma in geography. The Geographical Tripos - the examination for a B.A. degree - was established in 1919. In 1931 the first professor was appointed and in 1933 the department moved into its own accommodation. That building, which now constitutes the eastern end of the department, was considerably extended in the 1930s, with the construction of new lecture theatres and laboratories. In the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Mawdsley
Emma Mawdsley is a professor of geography at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Since October 2024, she has been head of the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Mawdsley studied at Cambridge and then worked at Durham University and Birkbeck College before returning to Cambridge. Her research focus has been on global development, particularly in India. In May 2021, Mawdsley was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Busk Medal, “for exceptional engagements with fieldwork, research and knowledge production about the global South”. Awards * Busk Medal, Royal Geographical Society 2021 Selected publications * Mawdsley, E., 2013. From Recipients to Donors: The Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape, Zed, London. * Mawdsley, E., Fourie, E. and Nauta, W. (eds.). Researching South–South Development Cooperation, Routledge. References Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Airey
Dawn Elizabeth Airey (born 15 November 1960) is a British media executive, sports administrator and independent company director. She is the Chancellor of Edge Hill University, and chairs the Barclays FA Women's Super League and Championship board, the National Youth Theatre and the educational platform Digital Theatre+. Airey is a non-executive director of Channel 4, Getty Images, Grosvenor Estates and Blackbird. She is best known for her tenure between 1996 and 2002 at Channel 5, as the inaugural Director of Programmes, and subsequently Chief Executive, and has held senior positions at ITV plc, Sky UK, Yahoo! and Getty Images. Early life Airey was born in Preston, Lancashire. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied geography. Career Airey began her career as a management trainee at Central Independent Television in 1985. In 1989 she was promoted to the position of Director of Programme Planning and was appointed to the Central broadcasting boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin R
Kevin is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; ; ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicised from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of the late nineteenth century, with Kevin ... [...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 i ... [...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 th ... [...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 Ch ... [...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 RFC, Tunbridge Wells Rugby Football Club. He is also chairman of the Kent Rugby Football Union. In 2013, after ... [...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 Magherafelt, , Northern Ireland on 3 November 1960, he was the son of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Chant
Sylvia Hamilton 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 Chant was born in 1958 in Dundee. Her parents were June Dollis Mary (born McCartney) and Stuart Ralston Chant (1930–2013), virologist and plant pathologist. She left Scotland when she was a baby. She earned her BA at King's College, Cambridge and then her PhD at University College London in 1984 (''Las Olvidadas: a study of women, housing and family structure in Queretaro, Mexico''). Chant was a so that her father could research and lecture. She said that pride in her father's work with tropical agriculture, including the cassava mosaic virus influenced her career choice. She took Geography at the University of Liverpool from 1987 to 1988, before joining the LSE. S ... [...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 and Italy, intersperced with jobs 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 |
William Maurice Brown
William Maurice Brown (1910–1974) was the first principal of Faujdarhat Cadet College, one of the 12 Cadet Colleges of Bangladesh. He was then a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the New Zealand Army. He was a recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, and an observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations. Early life Principal Brown was born 21 Jun 1910 in Granity, Buller, West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand, to Ewart Gladstone Brown, an engineer, and Isabelle Mary (Patton) Brown, and spent his school days in the Waikato region. In 1930, after achieving a teaching diploma from Auckland College of Education and a degree in history from Auckland University College, he served in various schools and colleges there. He was commissioned in the First Auckland Regiment in 1931. During the war he joined the Royal Air Force as Squadron Leader and later in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Then he earned an honours degree in Geography specialising in Geomorphology from King's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Blaikie
Piers Macleod Blaikie (born 29 January 1942) is a Scottish geographer and scholar of international development and natural resources, who worked until 2003 at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. His contribution to development has been in four areas: * Environment * Agrarian change * AIDS and family planning * Political ecology Background Blaikie was born in wartime Scotland, in Helensburgh. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read the Geography Tripos (1964) and completed a PhD (1971). He lectured in geography at the University of Reading from 1968 to 1972, before spending 33 years at the University of East Anglia, in the School of Development Studies, where he eventually became Professor. He retired in 2003 but remained professionally active. Major contributions Of all his work his best known is the small volume published in 1985 ''Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries''. In this book, and elsew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
