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Neil Wrigley
Neil Wrigley
Born (1948-03-27) 27 March 1948 (age 76)
OccupationProfessor of Geography

Neil Wrigley FBA, FAcSS, DSc, PhD (b. 27 March 1948)[1] is Professor of Human Geography and former Head of the Department of Geography & Environment, University of Southampton. He was elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) in 2012[2], and previously to Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (2004)[3]. He has held a number of prominent positions in Geography, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in general - being previously Head of the School of City & Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff[4], Reader in Geography at the University of Bristol[5] and a Committee Member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council[6]. He has also advised Government Depts[7], international agencies[8], national academies, and major multinational firms

He is noted as a leading editor of academic journals, editing the flagship journal of UK Geography – Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers[9] (1988-1993), and then founding[10] and editing from 2001-2014, the world-class cross-disciplinary Journal of Economic Geography[11], published by Oxford University Press [12]. He has also served on the Editorial Boards of several leading international journals including Environment and Planning A[13], Regional Studies [14], Contemporary Social Science [15]and several retail-management journals.

Author of 175 academic journal papers and several well-known books, Neil's research for the last 25 years has centred on economic geography with a distinctive focus on retail and consumption. An acknowledged world-expert in those fields and more generally in his discipline (10,557 citations, H-index 56 - Google Scholar accessed 17/11/2017) his research and scholarship has attracted many prizes including the Ashby Prize (2004)[16], the Murchison Award[17] of the Royal Geographical Society (2008), and the ESRC Outstanding Impact on Business Award[18] (2014), together with prestigious Research Fellowships including the John Angus Erskine Fellowship[19] (New Zealand) 1995, Senior Research Fellowship, St Peter's College[20], Oxford, 1996-97, and ESRC and Leverhulme Trust[21] Fellowships.

Academic Qualifications[edit]

Title Position/Institution
FBA Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2012)
FAcSS Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2003)
FRGS Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
D.Sc. University of Bristol
PhD. University of Cambridge
B.A. 1st Class Honours (Geography), University of Wales

Academic career[edit]

Year Position Institution
1991-Present Professor of Geography

(Head of Department 1992-95 and 1999-2001)

University of Southampton
1986-91 Professor of City and Regional Planning

(Head of Department 1989-91)

University of Wales, Cardiff
1976-86 Lecturer then Reader in Geography University of Bristol
1973-76 Lecturer in Geography University of Southampton

Awards and appointments[edit]

Recent Research Grants, Themes and Publications[edit]

Since 2000 he has generated (mainly as PI) more than £3.75 mill of research support - across a spectrum from 100% RCUK funded, through 50/50 RCUK/industry co-funded, to 100% industry-funded - facilitating a group of projects which have had notable impact both within and especially outside academic circles in the wider user community.

Particularly well-known contributions he has made since 2000 have included:

  1. Pioneering work on issues of food poverty, diet-related inequalities and food retail access in underserved low-income neighbourhoods in British cities
  2. Internationally recognized research on transnational retail and the global economy
  3. Public policy oriented contributions to debates on: the evolution and resilience of UK High Streets

Research awards since 2000

Examples of 100% RCUK and 50/50 co-funded RCUK/industry awards include:

  • 2017-18 AMR
  • 2012-15 The future of the high street
  • 2007-12 ESRC Retail industry business engagement network (RIBEN)
  • 2005-07 Organising ethical trade
  • 2001-04 Globalizing retail and the challenge of e-commerce
  • 2000-04 Food deserts in British cities

Examples of 100% industry-funded awards include:

  • 2011-12 Evaluating the impact of small foodstore gdevelopment on small towns
  • 2007-10 Revisiting the impacts of large foodstore development on market towns and district centres
  • 2007-08 Entry and exit of small and specialist stores in British high streets
  • 2005-06 Relocalising food shopping: consumer responses to supply chain transformation in the UK convenience store sector

Publications illustrative of these awards include

2017 "Towards new economic geographies of retail globalization", Chapter in The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Oxford University Press) (with N.M. Coe)

2017 "An Economic Geography of Globalizing Retail: Emergence, Characteristics, Contribution", In : The Routledge Companion to Economic Geography and International Business, (: Routledge). (with S.Wood)

2017 "Capital Discipline and Financial Market Relations in Retail Globalization: Insights from the Case of Tesco plc", Journal of Economic Geography 17(1):31-57 (with S.Wood, N.M. Coe)

2017 "Linked-trip effects of 'town-centre-first'era foodstore development: An assessment using difference-in-differences, Environment & Planning B Planning and Design 44(1) (with D.Lambiri, A.Faggian)

2016 "Multi-Scalar Localization and Capability Transference: Exploring Embeddedness in the Asian Retail Expansion of Tesco", Regional Studies, 50:3, 47-495 (with S. Wood, N.M. Coe)

2015 "British High Streets: From Crisis to Recovery? A comprehensive Review of the Evidence Base", (ESRC) 108pp (with D. Lambiri)

2011 "Resilience, fragility, and adaptation: new evidence of the performance of UK high streets during global economic crisis", Environment and Planning A, 43, 2337-2363 (with L. Dolega) [Nominated for AESOP "Best Published Paper" Prize]

2010 "The globalisation of trade in retail services", Expert Report commissioned by OECD, Paris, 38 pages (with M. Lowe)

2010 "The 'continuously morphing' retail TNC during market entry: interpreting Tesco's expansion into the USA", Economic Geography, 86, 381-408 (with M. Lowe)

2009 "Extending the Competition Commission's findings on entry and exit of small stores in British high streets: implications for competition and planning policy", Environment and Planning A, 41, 2063-2085 (with J. Branson, A. Murdock, and G. Clarke)

2007 "Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda", Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 341-371 (with N.M. Coe)

2005 "Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation", Progress in Human Geography, 29, 437-457 (with N.M Coe and A.D. Currah)

2003 "Deprivation, diet and food retail access: findings from the Leeds 'food deserts' study", Environment and Planning A, 35, 151-188 (with D.L. Warm and B.M. Margetts) [Awarded Ashby Prize 2004}

References[edit]

  1. ^ 'WRIGLEY, Prof. Neil', Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; accessed 4 February 2017
  2. ^ "Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) in 2012". Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (2004)". Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. ^ "School of Geography and Planning (formerly The School of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff".
  5. ^ "Reader in Geography at the University of Bristol". Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  6. ^ Member, ESRC Research Resources and Methods Committee
  7. ^ Department for Communities and Local Government DCLG, Policy Advisory Group Future High Streets Forum (2013/15)
  8. ^ OECD, Author of expert report on Globalization of Trade in Retail Services (Paris 2010)
  9. ^ "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers". doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1475-5661. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ^ Bodman, Andrew R.; Christopherson, Susan M.; Clark, Gordon L.; Gertler, Meric S. (2013-03-01). "Editorial: Wrigley's project". Journal of Economic Geography. 13 (2): 203–210. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbt001. ISSN 1468-2702.
  11. ^ "Journal of Economic Geography". Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Editorial Board". Oxford Journals, Social Sciences, Journal of Economic Geography. Oxford Journals. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  13. ^ "Environment and Planning A". Retrieved 17 March 2016. published by SAGE
  14. ^ "Regional Studies". Retrieved 17 March 2016. published by Taylor & Francis
  15. ^ "Contemporary Social Science". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Winner of the Ashby Prize 2004" (PDF). Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  17. ^ "Murchison Award".
  18. ^ "Impact Prize winners 2014". Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  19. ^ "The John Angus Erskine Bequest". Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  20. ^ "St Peter's College". Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  21. ^ "Leverhulme Trust". Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  22. ^ "Impact Prize Winners".
  23. ^ "Journal of Economic Geography | Oxford Academic". OUP Academic. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  24. ^ Bodman, Andrew R.; Christopherson, Susan M.; Clark, Gordon L.; Gertler, Meric S. (2013-03-01). "Editorial: Wrigley's project". Journal of Economic Geography. 13 (2): 203–210. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbt001. ISSN 1468-2702.
  25. ^ "British Academy profile". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  26. ^ "Murchison Award".
  27. ^ "Environment and Planning A".

External links[edit]

  • [1] Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton

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