Professor Nigel Thrift is the Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Warwick. Prior to this he was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for
Research at the University of Oxford. Professor Thrift was made Head of the
Division of Life and Environmental Sciences at Oxford in 2003, before which he
chaired the Research Committee at The University of Bristol (2001 - 2003) and
Bristol’s Research Assessment Panel (1997-2001).
Professor Thrift was
born in Bath, educated at Aberystwyth and Bristol and is one of the world’s
leading human geographers and social scientists. During his academic career
Professor Thrift has been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic
awards including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for
contributions to geographic research in 2003 and Distinguished Scholarship
Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 2007. His current
research spans a broad range of interests, including international finance;
cities and political life; non-representational theory; affective politics; and
the history of time.
Professor Thrift is an
Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and
was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. Professor Thrift chaired Main
Panel H of RAE 2008 from 2003-2006; was a member of the Panel for Geography for
the RAE 2001; has been a member of the Leverhulme Prize Fellowship Geography
Panel since 2000 and was a member of the ESRC Research Priorities Board between
2001 and 2005. He is a Visiting Professor of Geography at the University of
Oxford and an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol.
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