Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding scholar

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Posted on 21 November 2011

Dr Peter Adey, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences and the Emerging Securities Unit, is one of only two UK Human Geographers to be awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize this year.

The award was given on the basis of Peter's contribution to cultural and political geography, specifically in the study of security and the advancement of the new mobilities paradigm.

The prizes, with a value of £70,000 each, are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is yet to come.

Peter will use the prize towards developing a series of research activities around the study of evacuation and its cultures and politics.

He is expecting that this will take him to sites in Japan, the US, New Zealand and Haiti, while developing further collaborative projects with colleagues in Durham, London, Swansea,Philadelphia, and the University of California.

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