Humphrey Richard Southall Portrait

Professor Humphrey Southall

Professor of Historical Geography

Humphrey.Southall@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Environmental Geography and Geosciences Sustainability and the environment

Biography

I graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1976, and then spent a year as a Special Student at Harvard University. I returned to Cambridge from 1977-9, studying for my PhD, then moved to a lectureship at Queen Mary, University of London.  I was awarded my PhD in 1984 and was promoted to a Readership at Queen Mary in 1995.  I moved from Queen Mary to ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in 2000.

Research interests

  • History of the North-South divide in Britain
  • Data models for gazetteers and geospatial ontologies
  • Long-run impacts of locality characteristics on health inequalities
  • The role of travellers in the development of political life

Research outputs

2024

Aucott, P., Heath, O., Prosser, C., Southall, H.

25 Jun 2024, In: The Conversation

Aucott, P., Heath, O., Prosser, C., Southall, H.

20 Jun 2024, In: The Conversation

2023

Aucott, P., Auffret, A. G., Beale, C. M., Fox, R., Hill, J. K., Isaac, N. J., Martay, B., Southall, H., Suggitt, A. J., Thomas, C. D., Walker, K. J., Wheatley, C. J.

30 Oct 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 9p., 6759