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Biography:
\n<\/strong>My original academic interests were established early, at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1956 \u2013 1963). When I left the RGS my interests were \u2013 in declining order of my enthusiasm \u2013 History (European, American, and French), English Literature, and Geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read for my B.A. Hons in Geography at the University of Liverpool from 1963 to 1966. After a year of sampling three very different jobs \u2013 public and private sector \u2013 I returned to Liverpool in the fall of 1967 as a postgraduate student. I completed my Ph.D in behavioural geography and spatial decision-making, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, in 1972, by which time \u2013 at the age of 25 \u2013 I had emigrated from England in August 1970 to take up a one year contract as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Carleton University, to teach Urban Geography, and the first course at Carleton in Statistical Analysis for Geographers. In 1971 I took up an appointment at Carleton as Assistant Professor of Geography. I introduced courses in Quantitative Methods, Population Geography, Medical Geography (subsequently Health, Environment, and Society), the Geography of Social Well-Being), and Philosophy and Geography, which reflected my research interests. I supervised 35 graduate students. In 1981-82 I was President of CUASA. I was Chair of Geography 1988 \u2013 1990, and Associate Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (2004 \u2013 2005), and Coordinator of Directed Interdisciplinary Studies (2004 \u2013 2007). I retired as an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies in 2012. My current work combines my original academic interests with my later forays into philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n