Geographical Political Economy
News Archive
Gavin Bridge receives Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Commission, to begin Sept 2006.
2007 Workshop on “Workshop on “Global Production Networks: Debates and Challenges”. Watch this space for upcoming details about the workshop!
2nd Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing 2007.
Workshop on “The Globalisation of the Temporary Staffing Industry”, University of Manchester, September 2006.
Download workshop programme (pdf, 50KB).
Postgraduate e-conference 'Researching Contemporary Cities'.
Kevin Ward to take up his Philip Leverhulme Prize on 1 October 2006.
New Professorial appointment
The School of Environment and Development at Manchester University is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Erik Swyngedouw. Erik Swyngedouw has an international, cross-disciplinary reputation for his research on the political economy of governance, geographical scale and nature. Erik will join the Geography discipline area in the School and will be a key member of two linked research groups: namely the Society and Environment Research group comprising, among others, Professor Tony Bebbington, Dr. Gavin Bridge, Professor Noel Castree, Dr. Dan Brockington, Dr. Gavin Hilson, Dr. Jessica Budds, Dr. Lindsay Stringer; and the Geographical Political Economy research group, comprising Drs. Kevin Ward, Neil Coe, Martin Hess, as well as Bridge and Castree.
Erik Swyngedouw is the first of two new professorial appointments in Geography at Manchester. A second chair will be occupied later this year in the area of space, culture and identity.
Professor Noel Castree gives plenary at IGU 2006.