Professor Robert Dodgshon FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- Geography
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Prior to his retirement in 2007, Professor Dodgshon was Gregynog Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth, having also served as Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Science, 1998-2003. He is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2010), as well as being a holder the Scottish Geographical Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (2003) and the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society (1996). His primary research interests are in Historical and Cultural Geography. His work has focussed on two themes. First, he has worked on how geographical change works itself out in the very long-term, and the role played by institutional inertia in shaping such change. Second, he has worked on the cultural ecology of farming communities over the medieval and early modern periods, with a particular emphasis on mountain communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and the Western Alps. He served as a Council Member of the National Trust (2001-08) and the Countryside Council for Wales (1997-2004), as a member of the Joint National Nature Conservation Committee (2003-04) and, as President of the Society for Landscape Studies (1997-2008).
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
Past appointments
Aberystwyth University Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
2008 -
Aberystwyth University Emeritus Professor of Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
2008 -
Aberystwyth University Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
2008 - 2016
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Gregynog Professor of Geography
2001 -
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Director, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
1998 -
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Professor of Geography
1988 -
Publications
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Economic geography, political economy, urban and regional restructuring, governance
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
Professor Hastings Donnan FBA
The comparative study of borders that have experienced conflict, violence and war; related issues of trauma, memory and displacement; border crossings, transitions and transgressions; Islam; Ireland; Pakistan
