Peter Jackson - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION
- 1976 BA Hons Geography, Oxford University, First Class
- 1977 Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford University
- 1980 DPhil in Geography, Oxford University
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- 1993 Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield (Chair of Department 2000-03)
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
- 1980 - 1993 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Geography, University College London
AWARDS AND PRIZES
- 2001 Elected to the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
- 2007 Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG)
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Economic and Social Research Council: Training and Skills Committee (2010 - 2015)
- Food Standards Agency: Social Science Research Committee (2008-2017, Chair, 2011 - 2017)
- Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG): Elected member of Council and Research Committee (2003 - 2006); Chair of Annual Conference (2016)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Social Science Expert Group (since 2017)
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
- 2004 - 2007 Director of Research for the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
- 2005 - 2008 Director of the Leverhulme Trust programme on ‘Changing Families, Changing Food’
- 2016 N8 agri-food programme, Sheffield lead for consumer research strand
- 2016 Director of Sheffield Sustainable Food Futures (SheFF)
- 2019 Co-Director, University Research Institute for Sustainable Food
RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS
- 2005 - 2008 The Leverhulme Trust, £1.2m for the ‘Changing Families, Changing Food’ programme (PI)
- 2006 - 2011 ESRC ‘Waste of the World’ £3m research programme (co-I, responsible for three PhD projects on food waste)
- 2008 - 2011 European Research Council, Advanced Investigator Grant, £1.3m for research on ‘Consumer culture in an age of anxiety’, (PI)
- 2012 - 2013 European Research Council, Proof of Concept funding, €149k to explore the potential commercialization of the CONANX research (PI)
- 2014 - 2017 ERA-Net SUSFOOD programme, €750k for research on Food, Convenience and Sustainability (PI)
- 2016 - 2019 ESRC, £364k for a study of enacting freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri-food sectors (PI)
