Sir Nigel Thrift CGeog

Biography

Nigel became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick in July 2006. Prior to that he was at the University of Oxford where he held posts as Head of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences at Oxford and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research. Nigel has a BA (Hons) in Geography from University of Aberystwyth, a PhD from University of Bristol and a DSc from University of Bristol. Nigel’s main research interests include money and finance, new forms of capitalism, the cultural impacts of information technologies, the history of time and time consciousness, non-representational theories, performance in all its forms and cities as foci of spatial and temporal experiment. Nigel was awarded the Heath Award from the Royal Geographical Society with IBG in 1988, the Newbigin Prize from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1998, the Medal of the University of Helsinki 1999, Victoria Medal of the RGS/IBG 2003, Fellow of the British Academy 2003 and been made an Academician by the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2000.