Dear all
By the end of November I received the following nominations for the EGRG
committee. I asked the nominees to provide a brief biography and where
they did, these are appended.
The positions up for grabs are secretary, four committee places and two
postgraduate positions. Spookily, nominations exactly matched places.
Name Position Proposer Seconder
Dave Gibbs Cttee Member Jamie Peck Andy Jonas
Paul Kent Postgraduate Andy Lincoln Steve Woods
Kevin Ward Secretary Adam Tickell Alex Hughes
Alex Hughes Cttee member Adam Tickell Kevin Ward
Jane Pollard Cttee member Nick Henry Adam Tickell
David Charles Cttee member Andy Gillespie Neil Marshall
Andy Lincoln Postgraduate Jane Wills Kevin Ward
Dave Gibbs is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the
Interdisciplinary Research Institute for City and Regional Studies at the
University of Hull. He has worked at Manchester Metropolitan University
and at CURDS, Newcastle University and received his degrees from Manchester
University. His research has focussed on local and regional economic
development, in particular on new technologies and on incorporating
environmental aims and issues into economic development policy (funded by
EPSRC and ESRC). He has been Honorary Treasurer and an ordinary member of
the Regional Studies Association Executive Committee and a member of the
Regional Studies management committee, as well as the Secretary of the
(oddly named) predecessor to EGRG - the Industrial Activity and Area
Development Study Group. In real life he has an exhaustive knowledge of
obscure films, a (growing) collection of mountain bikes and a firm belief
that Norwich City will make it back into the Premier League this year.
Alex Hughes lectures in Geography at the University of Southampton. Her
research interests are in the fields of retail geography, inter-firm
relationships, geographies of commodities and methodologies of researching
corporate elites. She has been a committee member of the EGRG, both as a
postgraduate representative in 1995-96 and as a co-opted member responsible
for organising an EGRG conference in 1998.
Paul Kent graduated from the University of Southampton in June 1997 and is
currently working on a PhD thesis sponsored by the Steel Partnership
Training Initiative on "The Future of British Steel Communities" at Queen
Mary and Westfield College under the watchful eyes of Jane Wills and Roger
Lee. Paul has delivered a paper entitled "This Course or Discourse?: Why
are training and lifelong learning so popular?" at the EGRG postgraduate
symposium in Manchester and will deliver a follow-up paper at the RGS-IBG
next January.
Jane Pollard lectures in geography at the University of Birmingham. She
has degrees from Sheffield, McMaster and UCLA and has served on the EGRG
committee for the last three years. Her research interests focus on
geographies of money and finance, specifically: the changing nature and
provision of retail and commercial financial services; financial exclusion;
and the conventions of restructuring that shape the reorganisation of
retail banking
Kevin Ward is currently a Researcher in the International Centre for Labour
Studies and a member of the School of Geography at Manchester University.
His research interests are in urban governance, the regeneration of cities
and changes in the work and welfare systems. He has been a member of the
EGRG committee since 1995, first as a postgraduate representative and more
recently as its Newsletter Editor. More informally but importantly, he is
an avid collector of vinyl and a supporter of St. Albans City FC.
Best wishes
Adam
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Adam Tickell
Department of Geography
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
+44 (0)1703 595 496
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~egrg
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