Professor Peter Taylor

BA PhD

Professor of Human Geography

Biography

Work in UK: Currently works in the Department of Geography and Environment, Northumbria University.

Previously, Department of Geography, Newcastle University from 1969 to 1995 (founding Associate Director of Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURDS), Professor from 1990); Department of Geography, Loughborough University 1995-2010 (Professor, now Emeritus Professor)

Work outside UK (Senior research fellows/visiting professorships): George A Miller Chair, University of Illinios, 1985); CC Garvin Chair, Virginia Tech, 1992-3; Wibaut Chair, University of Amsterdam, 1998-9; and University of Iowa (1970-1); University of Alberta (1976); Clark University (1978-9); Dartmouth College (1979); Binghamton University (1990); University of Delaware (1993); Maison de l’Homme des Sciences, Paris (1995); Virginia Tech, 2002 and 2003 (Associate Director of the Metropolitan Institute)
Editorships: Founding editor of CATMOG (Concepts and Methods in Modern Geography) 1973-8; founding editor of Political Geography (1982-96); founding co-editor of Review of International Political Economy (1992-1998)

Research grants: ESRC (6 plus 2 from predecessor SSRC); Leverhulme Trust 2; FWO 2; Anglo-German Foundation; Sloan Foundation; Interreg IIIB

Consultancies/Advisor:
2011 Consultant, Chengdu City Council,

2010-11 Member of Scientific Committee, Globus et Locus, Milan
2010 Program consultant, Global Cities Index Program, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
2010 Advisor, Department of International Affairs, Dublin City Council
2009-14 Advisor, Global Urban Competitive Project, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2008-9 Advisor, Abu Dhabi Council for Economic Development
2008 Consultant, Metropolis Conference, Sydney (NSW Government)
2008-10 Global Cities Index Advisor, joint initiative of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and A.T. Kearney
2007-9 Advisor to Globus et Locus (Greater Milan project)
2007 Consultant with International Tennis Federation
2006-8 Consultant with MasterCard (Hearts of Commerce project)
2005 Industries Study Fellow, Sloan Foundation
2002-3 Advisor with Jones Lang LaSalle (Winning Cities programme)

Esteem indicators:

2012 Reprint of co-authored 1979 book Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organization of Elections in the EPCR Classics Series (European Consortium of Political Research)
2010: Awarded ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by the Political Geography Speciality Group of the Association of American Geographers, 2010. This was the first ever such award. As an additional honour they have decided to name the award the ‘Peter Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award’ for future recipients.
2009: Ranked 4th equal among human geographers for ‘influentialness’ (from 1958 to 2008) (calculated from citations) in J of Econ Geog, (vol. 10, p. 147)
2008: Conferred as “Honorary Doctor” by Ghent University (Belgium)
2006: Conferred as “Honorary Doctor” by the University of Oulu (Finland)
2005: Awarded the Francqui Foundation Medal (Brussels)
2005: Awarded the Medal of the University of Ghent
2004: Elected a Fellow of the British Academy
2004: Selected as a subject in Key Thinkers on Space and Place (P Hubbard, R Kitchen and G Valentine (eds); London Sage; see chapter by Jim Glassman, pp. 288-93).
2004: Appointment to International Inter-university Francqui Chair (Francqui Foundation: Universities at Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liege, Louvan)
2003: Designated by the Association of American Geographers for 2003 Distinguished Scholarship Honors
2002: Identification of 2000 paper as a one of the most cited papers in world city research by ISI and featured as an emerging research front key paper (esi-topics.com)
2001: Elected an Academician by the Academy of Learned Societies of the Social Sciences (UK)
2001: Publication of a Special Edition of Political Geography dedicated to my contributions to political geography (Vol. 20, Issue 6)
1999: Wibaud Chair for Distinguished International Visitors at Amsterdam study centre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME), Department of Geography and Planning, University of Amsterdam
1996: Selection of a 1982 paper as a Citation Classic for the discussion series in Progress in Human Geography
1994: Selected to be a member of the 10 person Gulbenkian Commission on the Future of the Social Sciences (other members: I Wallerstein (chair), I Prigogine, E F Keller, J Kocka, D Lacourt, M-R Troullot, V Y Mudimbe, K Mushakoji and C Juma)
1992: Election as CC Garvin Endowed Visiting Professor (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech)
1989: Gill Award conferred by Royal Geographical Society (for contributions to political geography)
1988: Winner of the 25th Premio Inglesias prize (Rome) (with R J Johnston for World in Crisis)
1984: Visiting Professor in George A Miller Chair, University of Illinios, 1985

Talking Point

Interdisciplinarity? NO; Multidisciplinarity? NO; Trans-disciplinarity? NO; Indisciplinarity? YES!

Research Interests

I am a world-systems analyst interested in political geography and urban geography. I am founder and Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. Currently I am trying to understand the relations between cities and states in a forthcoming book: Extraordinary Cities – Cities and States in their Geohistorical Tango towards Globalization.

Key Publications

Over 450 publications with some 60 translated into one or more of 23 languages. Latest books are:

2010: Global Urban Analysis: a Survey of Cities in Globalization (edited with GaWC colleagues) London: Earthscan
2011: Globalization of Advertizing (with GaWC colleagues) London: Routledge
2011: Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality (6th edition, with C Flint) London: Pearson
2012: International Handbook on Globalization and World Cities (edited with GaWC colleagues) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Teaching Interests and Modules

Translating the above into teaching modules

Who I Work With

Colleagues in the GaWC Research Network

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