Professor Richard James Webber (born September 1947) is the inventor of the geodemographic classifications systems

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and

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. He has been a visiting professor at University College London, King's College London, and Newcastle University. In 2014 he founded Webber Phillips with

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. He is a fellow of the

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and the

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. In 2020 Webber and Phillips were appointed to advise

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about the impact of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic on

BAME A number of different systems of classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom exist. These schemata have been the subject of debate, including about the nature of ethnicity, how or whether it can be categorised, and the relationship betwe ...

people in the United Kingdom.

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Living people 1947 births Academics of King's College London British demographers Academics of Newcastle University {{UK-academic-bio-stub