Erik Swyngedouw#
| Membership Number: | 4078 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Erik.Swyngedouw |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Professor of Geography, University of Manchester
- Jan - Jun 2014 Vincent Wright Visiting Chair in European Politics, Science Po (Institute for Political Science), Paris
- 2011 - 2014 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Ghent, Belgium
- Jan - Dec 2011 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow
- 2008 - 2010 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Leuven
- 2004 - 2006 Professor of Geography, Oxford University
- Sep - Dec 2004 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography and Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- 1988 - 2006 Official Fellow and Tutor of Geography, St. Peter’s College, Oxford University (1988-2006)
- 1997 - 2004 University Reader in Economic Geography, Oxford University, UK
- Jan - Apr 2002 Monet-Marshall Visiting Professor of European Studies, Jackson School of International Relations and Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 1997 - 2000 Associate Fellow, Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University
- Jul - Oct 1998 Visiting Professor and Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1988 - 1997 University Lecturer in Human Geography, Oxford University, UK
- Sep - Nov 1996 Visiting Professor and European Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Seville, Spain
- 1990 - 1994 Consultant to the University of Leuven, Belgium/Universidad di Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- 1987 - 1988 Lecturer in Geography and Regional Economics at the College for Public Policy and Business Administration, (ADECHO), Brussels, Belgium
- 1984 - 1988 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, University of Leuven
- 1983 - 1984 Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Metropolitan Planning and Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- 1980 - 1983 Researcher, Institute for Urban and Regional Planning, University of Leuven
Fields of Scholarship
- Urban governance
- Water resources
- Political ecology
- Political geography
- Geographical political economy
- Urban sociology
- Environmental politics
- Environmental sociology
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Honorary Doctor, Roskilde University, Denmark
- 2018 Honorary Doctor, University of Malmö, Sweden
- 2013 Medal from Flemish Science Foundation, Belgium (for services on research panel)
- 2012 Invited to be Ambassador for the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) (http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome?lg=en
) on “Water is a Human Right” (http://www.right2water.eu)
- 2011 British Academy Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- 2008 James Blaut Memorial Award, Critical and Socialist Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
- 1997 Anniversary Award from Environment and Planning A for best paper of the year “Power, Nature and the City. The Conquest of Water and The Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador: 1880-1980”, Environment and Planning A, 29(2), pp. 311-332
