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Peter Jackson, FBA, FAcSS (born 22 July 1955) is a British human geographer. Since 1993, he has been professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield.




Career


Jackson graduated from Keble College, Oxford, with a BA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Geography. He then lectured at University College London from 1980 to 1993, the last year as a senior lecturer, before moving to the University of Sheffield to take up his professorship.




Contributions


According to his departmental profile, Jackson's research focuses on "commodity culture and the geography of consumption with a particular interest in food". His Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded research on consumption and identity in North London was published as Shopping, Place and Identity in 1998, another ESRC project on men's magazines was published in 2001, and three years later a third ESRC-funded project led to the publication of Transnational Histories three years later. From 2005 to 2008, he was director of the "Changing Families, Changing Food" research programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust. From 2009 to 2013, he was also director of "Consumer Anxieties About Food" (CONANX), a European Research Council programme, leading to publications in 2013 and 2015.




Honours


In 2001, Jackson was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. In July 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2019, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.




Selected works






References






Further reading


Claire Dwyer, "Peter Jackson", in Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, vol. 1 (Elsevier, 2009), pp. 1–3.

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