Ray Hudson - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1966-69 B.A. in Geography (1st Class Honours) University of Bristol
• 1969-72 Ph.D., Geography, University of Bristol
• 1996 D.Sc. University of Bristol

• Professor of Geography, 1990-, Chair of the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies, 1999-, Director, Wolfson Research Institute, 2003-7, Pro-Vice Chancellor, 2007- University of Durham
• Director, Office for National Statistics On-line Manpower Information System, 1986-
• Director, Economic and Social Research Council’s Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe, 1995-2001 (the only ESRC Research or Resource Centre to be based in a Geography Department)
• Chairman of the Department of Geography, 1992-7. Geography was the only Department in Durham, and only one of four Geography Departments nationally, to be awarded the highest grades for research and teaching in the relevant national assessments during this period. This laid the ground for the later award of a 5** grade in 2003, one of only three Departments to achieve this.
• Author or editor of 22 published books. Author or co-author of some 80 refereed journal articles and 60 book chapters.
• Identified in 1991 as one of the most cited human geographers (Transactions ,Institute of British Geographers)
• Founding editor, 1993, of European Urban and Regional Studies, Sage, consistently ranked in the top 10 in urban studies and environmental studies in the Social Science Citation index.
• Honorary D. Sc. Roskilde University, Denmark, 1987
• Edward Heath Award, Royal Geographical Society, 1989
• Awarded D. Sc. on the basis of published research, Bristol University, 1996
• Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation Fellowship, Durham University, 1998-9
• Awarded over £22 million in research grants and contracts from a wide variety of sources, including local authorities, national Research Councils, the NHS, national government and the EU.
• Chair, Conference of Heads of UK Departments of Geography in Higher Education, 1995-99. Successfully led the case for Geography to be funded as a unitary part-laboratory discipline
• Member, Advisory Board of the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Research into Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, 1996-2007
• Member, Council for British Geography, 1996-9
• Member, North East Development Agency Regional Economic Task Group, 1998-1999
• Vice President, Chair of Conference 2000 and Chair of the Research Division, Royal Geographical Society, 1999-2004
• Chair, Economic and Social Research Council Subject Area Panel for Geography, 1999 – 2002 (member since 1997)
• President of the Geography Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002
• Academician, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, 2001-
• Member, Economic and Social Research Council Training and Development Board, 2002-6
• Member, Institute of Learning and Teaching, 2002-
• Chartered Geographer, 2004-
• Specialist Advisor, House of Commons Select Committee on Coalfields Regeneration, 2003-5
• Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 2005
• Invited Member, International Scientific Council, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, 2005-2010
• Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2006
• Chair Government Office of the North East/ONE North East Academic Panel, 2007-
• Elected Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2007
• Elected Fellow, Academia Europaea, 2007
• Invited Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 2009
• Invited Expert Panel member, National Audit Office Examination of Coalfields Regeneration Programmes, 2009