CURRICULUM VITAE JOHNSTON, RONALD JOHN Date of Birth: 30 March 1941 ACADEMIC CAREER 1959-1964 School of Geography, University of Manchester: Wiltshire County Scholarship 1959-1962 B.A. Honours, Class II.I June 1962 State Studentship in Arts 1962-1963 MA June 1964. 1964-1966 Department of Geography, Monash University 1964 Teaching Fellow 1965 Senior Teaching Fellow 1966 Lecturer 1967 PhD 1967-1974 Department of Geography, University of Canterbury 1967-1968 Lecturer 1969-1972 Senior Lecturer 1973-1974 Reader 1974-1992 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield 1974- Professor 1982-5 Head of Department. 1989-1992 Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Sheffield. 1992-1995 Vice-Chancellor, University of Essex 1995- Professor of Geography, University of Bristol 1999- Adjunct Professor, Department of Human Geography, Macquarie University 2003- Member, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Department of Economics, University of Bristol AWARDS 1969 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury. Fellowship awarded to enable attendance at international conferences in U.S.A. and U.K. and to undertake research in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 1972 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto. 1973 Academic Visitor, Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science. 1973 British Council Commonwealth Academic Interchange Scheme, Travel Fellowship. 1976 Official Overseas Guest, South African Geographical Society Quadrennial Conference, University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein and Visiting Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 1985 Official Conference Guest, Conference of Irish Geographers, Carysfort College, Blackrock, February 1985. 1985 Recipient of the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society, London, for contributions to political geography. 1987 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury. Awarded to visit the University of Canterbury on the occasion of the Anniversary of the opening of the Department of Geography, and to give the plenary lecture at the Anniversary Symposium. 1989 Associazione Culturale Lao Silesu, Iglesias, Sardinia Awarded (with P.J. Taylor) xxv Premio Iglesias in the Sezzione Sviluppo e Sottosviluppo for the book A World in Crisis? 1990 Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society. Awarded for 'contributions to human geography'. 1991 Association of American Geographers Awarded Honors for 'his outstanding contributions to human, political, and economic geography and for his work on the history and nature of geographic thought' 1996 Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University, University of Essex. 1998 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University. 1999 Elected, Fellow of the British Academy 1999 Honorary Degree of LLD, Monash University 1999 Awarded the 10th Prix Vautrin Lud by the annual Festival Internationale de Géographie 1999 Foundation Fellow, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences 2001 Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2002 Honorary Degree of DLitt – University of Sheffield 2005 Honorary Degree of DLitt – University of Bath 2006 Awarded (with Richard Harris) the David Winton Award of the Market Research Society for „the best technical paper which introduced a new marketing technique or stretches an existing technique in a way which adds to the body of market research knowledge‟. The paper – „Do survey respondents and non-respondents differ?‟ – was published in the International Journal of Market Research, and was judged to be „a well-written paper, easy to follow and very professional in its methodological approach‟. 2008 The „Ron Johnston Research Room‟ was opened in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield during its centenary celebrations LISTED IN Debrett’s People of Today Dictionary of International Biography Outstanding People of the 21st Century Who’s Who Who’s Who in Science and Engineering Who’s Who in Sciences Higher Education Who’s Who in Social Science Higher Education Who’s Who in Sciences Academia TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses taught Monash University 1964-6 First year practicals 1965-6 Third-year urban geography 1966 One week field course, Bendigo University of Canterbury 1967-1974 M.A. course, urban geography Third year, urban geography Second year tutorials 1967-1971 Second year statistics 1967-1970 Third year, research methods 1969-1972 Second year, urban geography Field courses to Reefton (1967), Invercargill (1968), Takaka (1969), Ngatea (1970), Westport (1974). University of Toronto 1972 Second year, urban geography Third year, internal structure of the city Graduate, internal structure of the city. University of Sheffield 1974-1978 Third year, Spatial Systems and Society 1974-1985 Second year, Internal structure of the city. Third year, History of modern human geography 1974-1976 Second year, Multivariate statistics Third year, Multivariate statistics 1974-1978 Graduate, Multivariate statistics/computing 1975-1976 Third year, Urbanization 1979-1984 Third year, Electoral and political geography 1978-1984 Residential Patterns (in Urban Studies Degree, second year) 1981-1988 Second year, Practical classes, Geographical Analysis 1984-1992 First year, Urbanization 1985-1988 Postgraduate, Local politics (ESRC doctoral programme) 1986-1992 Second year, Political geography 1986-1988 Third year, Britain and the world economy 1987 Third year, Urban social geography 1989-1992 Third year, Electoral geography. 1990-1992 Second year, Economic and political systems. University of Essex 1994 MA Pacific Rim, contributions to Core Course University of Bristol 1995- Third year. The state and the environment 1996- First Year. An Introduction to geography Postgraduate supervision Monash University one MA student University of Canterbury four PhD students 25 MA students University of Sheffield thirteen PhD students four MPhil students University of Bristol one MPhil/PhD student Four PhD students EXTERNAL EXAMINING/ASSESSING Public Examinations 1965-66 Examiner, Victoria State Matriculation Board, Matriculation Examination 1970-72 Examiner, New Zealand University Entrance Board, Bursaries Examination Undergraduate Degrees 1975-78 Department of Geography, Middlesex Polytechnic (chief examiner 1977-8) 1977-79 Human Geography, University of Sussex 1980-82 Department of Geography, University of Reading 1980-84 Degree in Race Relations, Edge Hill College (University of Lancaster) 1981-84 Department of Geography, University of Guyana 1981-83 Department of Geography, King's College London 1981-83 Department of Geography, London School of Economics 1982-84 City of Liverpool College of Higher Education (University of Lancaster) 1983-85 School of Geography, University of Manchester 1985-88 Department of Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1986-90 Department of Geography, University of the West Indies, Mona 1987-89 Department of Geography, Edge Hill College (University of Lancaster) 1988-91 Department of Geography, University of Bristol. Higher Degrees MA/MPhil/MSc 1971 University of Otago 1972 University of Newcastle, N.S.W. 1974 University of Salford 1976,1980 University of Sheffield 1983,1984 University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1983 CNAA 1983,1984 University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1986 Chinese University of Hong Kong PhD 1972,1983 University of Newcastle, N.S.W. 1973,1992 Massey University 1974 University of New England 1975,1978 University of Dundee 1976 University of Sydney 1976 University of Reading 1976,1982, 1985,1986 University of Bristol 1991 1977 Queen's University, Belfast 1977,1978 1984,1985 University of Manchester 1998 1978,1980 University of Cambridge 1978 University of Ibadan 1978 Macquarie University 1979 University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1980) 1981,1982) University of Sheffield 1990 ) 1981 Australian National University (Demography) 1982 CNAA 1983,1986) 1989,1991) University of London 1984 University of Lancaster 1985 University of East Anglia 1991 University of Rouen 1992 University of Oxford 1998 Cheltenham & Gloucester College 2001 University of Oxford (Politics) 2002 National University of Ireland, Maynooth 2005 Charles University, Prague 2005 University of Newcastle (Politics) DLitt 1982 University of Canterbury DSc in Social Sciences 1989 University of Bristol 1991 University of Bristol 1993 University of Bristol 1996 University of Bristol DSc 2001 University of London 1993- Member, Standing Committee on Higher Doctorates, Coventry University 1993-1995 Member, College Research Degrees Committee, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education External Assessor 1980 Head of the Department of Geography and Geology, Huddersfield Polytechnic 1980 Head of the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia 1981 Professor of Geography, Open University 1987-1990 University of London: Standing Panel of Experts in Geography 1988 Chair of Geography, University of Western Australia 1988- External Advisor, Professorial Conferment Scheme, Oxford Polytechnic 1989-90 Chair of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh 1993 Chair of Geography, University of Portsmouth 1993 Chair of Quantitative Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1993 Chair of Geography, University of Edinburgh 1993-94 Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford 1993-94 Chair of Geography, University of St Andrews 1994 Head of Department of Geography and Geology, and Professor, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education