Professor Peter Wood CGeog

Biography

Memo: Peter Wood obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is Professor of Geography at University College London, and was its Head between 1997 and 2002. He has held a number of other positions at UCL, including responsibilities for student recruitment, schools liaison and student welfare. His long-term research interests have been in manufacturing change and regional development, but his primary focus now is on the service sector, especially the growth of producer and business services. Research projects supported by the ESRC and the European Commission have included investigations into the growth of business services in England and Scotland; the regional conditions influencing their expansion to overseas markets; their role in providing clients with technical and managerial expertise and its regional implications; and the impacts of the use of business consultancies on client innovation. This work has extended to studies of the qualities that support economically successful cities in globalizing, service based economies.