Professor Peter Batey CGeog

Biography

Memo: Peter graduated in Geography from the University of Sheffield in 1969 and went on to take the Master of Civic Design in Planning at the University of Liverpool in 1971. His PhD (Liverpool, 1985) is in Regional Science. After a spell working as a planner in local government in North West England, he returned as a Lecturer in the Department of Civic Design at Liverpool in 1975. He became Lever Professor of Town and Regional Planning in 1989, the post he still holds. He has been a Co-Editor of the Town Planning Review since 1992. His research interests are in urban and regional analysis and planning methodology, particularly in the fields of geodemographics and regional demographic-economic modelling. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981-82. He served as World President of the Regional Science Association International in 1997-98. Peter was appointed by the UK Government as independent Chairman of the Mersey Basin Campaign in 2004 and completes a six-year term of office in 2010 when the Campaign itself ends. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2000 and in 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International.