Professor Ian Simmons FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Geography

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Durham

Past appointments

University of Durham Professor of Geography

1981 - 2001

University of Bristol Professor of Geography

1977 - 1981

University of Durham Lecturer, Reader in Geography

1962 - 1977

Publications

Changing the face of the earth (1989)

The environmental impact of later mesolithic cultures (1996)

An environmental history of Great Britain (2001)

The Moorlands of England and Wales. An Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000 (2003)

Global Environmental History 10,000 BC to AD 2000 (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Judith Carney FBA

Environment and society geography; gender, ecology and food systems in West Africa; African foods and slave agency in the historical geography of the Black Atlantic; agroecology and political ecology

Judith Carney FBA

Professor Linda McDowell FBA

Geographies of labour market change in the UK; gender divisions of labour; interactive work in the service sector; economic migration since 1945; memory and oral histories, especially of women migrants

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Professor Ruth Mace FBA

The evolution of human behaviour and culture, especially demography and anthropology; the evolutionary ecology of reproduction, cultural phylogenetics, and the evolution of co-operative behaviour

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