Staff profile
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Job title: Principal Lecturer
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Dept: Geographical and Life Sciences
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Tel: 01227 782332
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Campus: Canterbury
BA (Dublin), MA (Calgary), PhD (Sheffield)
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Teaching Responsibilities
Urban Geography, Economic Geography, quantitative methods
Research Interests
Employment structures in local and regional labour markets; industrial diversification and employment diversification; urban and regional economic development; urban systems and hierarchies; Ireland
Biography
Born in the Bronx, New York, in the Chinese Year of the Dragon (1964) in a neighbourhood that was once an ethnic Irish enclave, I moved to the suburbs of Long Island at the tender age of two. I moved to Ireland at the age of 11 where I attended boarding school at De La Salle College, Waterford. My family lived in the Middle East for most of my teenage years.
On completion of my schooling I went to University College Dublin, a constituent member of the National University of Ireland. After trying my hand at Science for a few years and recognising my limitations with multi-variate calculus and differential equations, I switched programme and graduated in 1987 with a BA (Hons) in Geography and History, dabbling with Politics along the way. I then went to Canada just in time for the 1988 Winter Olympics, and attended the University of Calgary where I obtained a Masters Degree in Geography in 1991. Along the way I learned how to ski and was also elected President of the Graduate Students Union. I returned to Ireland but in the days before the Celtic Tiger jobs were scarce so I took up the offer of a scholarship at the University of Sheffield in late 1993 where I was awarded a PhD in Geography in 1997.
While still at Sheffield I was offered the position I now hold at Canterbury Christ Church University and for more details, read further.