Joe Painter


Joe Painter FAcSS is a British geographer and academic.
He is as of 2006 a professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Director in the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies at the University of Durham in the U.K.

Education

Painter has degrees in Geography from:
Painter started to work as a teacher in the 1990s. Between 1991 and 1993 he was a geography lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
Subsequent to this he moved to the University of Durham and became Professor there in 2004. During the academic year 2004-2005 Painter was on leave at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he was the Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Painter has also become a member of various organizations and magazines: