Professor Bob Bennett FBA

Geography Central Europe Southern Europe Western Europe
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Geography

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge

2011 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Geography and Senior Associate, Judge Institute of Management

1996 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Geography

1985 - 1996

Publications

The voice of Liverpool Business: The first chamber of commerce 1774- c.1796 The voice of Liverpool Business: The first chamber of commerce 1774- c.1796 2010

Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy 2014

The geography of public finance, 1980, Methuen, London 1980

Enterprise and human resource development: local capacity building, 1993, with Andrew McCoshan (Paul Chapman Publishers, London) 1993

Local and regional economic development: renegotiating power under Labour, 2000, with Diane Payne (Ashgate, Aldershot) 2000

Local Business Voice: The history of chambers of commerce in Britain, Ireland and Revolutionary America, 1760-2011 Local Business Voice: The history of chambers of commerce in Britain, Ireland and Revolutionary America, 1760-2011 2011

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gillian Rose FBA

Cultural geography: contemporary visual culture, especially photography and digital visualisations; the cultural representation and everyday experiencing of cities; visual research methodologies

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Professor Janet Carsten FBA

The anthropology of kinship with particular reference to Malaysia & Britain, domestic relations, historical migration, the house, adoption reunions, kinship & memory, bodily substance, the interface between popular & medical ideas about blood.

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Professor Penny Harvey FBA

Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making

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