Professor Adam Tickell
Dean, Faculty of History and Social Sciences
Royal Holloway, University of London
TW20 0EX
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1784 414147
e-mail: adam at tickell dot org dot uk
 

Research

My recent research has had two foci.  I have recently finished work on the recent failed attempts to devolve power to English regions, both through a substantive project on region-building in the South East region and on the referendum the north east.  This work was funded by ESRC under the auspices of the 'Devolution and Constitutional Change' research programme. This research was with Peter John, Hallsworth Professor at the University of Manchester,  and Steve Musson, of the Department of Geography at Reading University and our findings have been published in Regional Studies, New Political Economy, Environment and Planning A, Local Economy and a number of books.  I would be happy to send copies of these papers on request.

The research I love at the moment explores the ways that free market ideas became the 'common sense' during the 1970s and 1980s, the changing nature of political economy since, and the role of contemporary conservative think tanks and advocacy groups, particularly in the US. This research, with Jamie Peck of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had small amounts of funding from the British Academy.  Jamie and I hope to write a book from the project during 2007.  I also have long-standing research interests in the area of finance and am on the Advisory Board for the ESRC's World Economy and Finance Programme.  

I recently completed, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, with Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard.  This takes Massey and Meegan's classic Politics and Method as its starting point and has reflections on the nature of economic geography from a wide range of intellectual perspectives. It is published by Sage.  I am also co-editing Globalisation in Practice, with Nigel Thrift and Steve Woolgar and this has short essays on the mundane in the global from academics working across the social sciences.  It will be published by Oxford University Press.  

Service

I am currently Vice Chair of the ESRC's Research Grants Board and a member of the International Advisory Committee.  I also chaired the Geography Panel in the ESRC's Research Training Recognition Exercises in 2005-6 and 2007.

Until the end of 2007 I was editor of Transactions, Institute of British Geographers. Before moving to Holloway, I was at Bristol University where I was Research Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law.  I continue to supervise the PhD of Russell Prince .  Former PhD students of mine include Nick Gill (now a lecturer at the University of Lancaster), Sarah Hall ( lecturer, University of Nottingham), Kevin Ward (Professor, University of Manchester), Adam Holden (Lecturer at the University of Durham), Sally Randles (at CRIC at Manchester University), Dan Mansfield (who works for Grant Thornton) and David Corominas (who is an extraordinarily active researcher and thinker living in Barcelona).

A cut-down, and probably dating, version of my cv is here.

Leisure

Other than enjoying time with my family, my other main leisure activity is riding my Argos built bike and I recently joined members of the Lancaster Cycling Club on a Land's End to John O'Groats schlep. I raised over £4,500 for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and the Lancaster team raised a similar amount for two local medical charities.  It took about 56 hours over 8 days and we rode around 930 miles.  If you can bear it, the ride details are at www.lejog2006.co.uk and my blog of the event is at http://adamlejog.blogspot.com