David Sadler (born 1960) is a

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er of

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Biography

He grew up in Nottingham, where he attended Nottingham High School, and gained a Geography degree from Durham University (University College) in 1981. He was awarded a doctorate at the same institution in 1986, with a thesis entitled “Born in a steel town: class relations and the decline of the European Community steel industry since 1974”. He held academic posts at Saint David’s University College, Lampeter (

University of Wales, Lampeter University of Wales, Lampeter () was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest Academic degree, degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited degree awarding powers sinc ...

), and at the University of Durham, before being appointed Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Liverpool in 2002. At Liverpool, he was Head of the Department of Geography from 2004 to 2007, and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies from 2007 to 2009. In 2010 he was appointed as Vice President for Academic Affairs at

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Xi'an is the capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwestern Chin ...

in Suzhou, China, a post he held until 2014. In that year, he joined Queen Mary University of London as its first Vice Principal (International), continuing in that role until 2017. In 2020, he was appointed Provost of the University of Birmingham Dubai Campus. As a geographer, he has published widely on the relationships between industrial change and regional development. He was a founding editor of the journal “European Urban and Regional Studies”. He has authored six books and around 80 journal articles, book chapters and reports. He was married to the late Jeanette Henderson (1953-2019), a mental health academic, most recently of the Open University in the UK.

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David Sadler
Alumni of University College, Durham Academic staff of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University British geographers Academics of the University of Liverpool Living people Academics of Durham University Academics of the University of Wales, Lampeter 1960 births People educated at Nottingham High School {{Geographer-stub

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