Kevin Ward (geographer)


Kevin Ward is a British geographer and academic. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester.

Education and career

Ward graduated from Middlesex University with a BA in economics and geography in 1991. The following year, he completed an MA in transport economics at the University of Leeds. He was awarded a second MA by the University of Manchester in 1995, where he also carried out doctoral studies supported by an ESRC studentship; his PhD was awarded in 1998.
Between 1992 and 1994, Ward was a research assistant at the University of Birmingham's Department of Economics. From 1997 to 2000, he was a research associate at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Lecturer in Human Geography in 2000. He was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2003 and to a readership in 2005, before being appointed Professor of Human Geography in 2007.

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