Prof Mark Whitehead
BSc Geography (Aberystwyth) PhD (Aberystwyth) PGCHE (Bangor)
Personal Chair
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Contact Details
- Email: msw@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6499-4719
- Office: K6, Llandinam Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622609
- Twitter: @Markiewhitehead
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=jAzMXpcAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Mark Whitehead is a Professor of human geography whose research interests span urban studies, sustainability, the impacts of the psychological sciences on public policy, and the social implications of smart technology. Mark has authored and edited 11 books, and written for The Guardian and Western Mail newspapers. His work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Radio Wales and in The Economist. Mark holds an Award for Teaching Excellence from Aberystwyth University (2004), and in 2017 was named Lecturer of the Year by Aberystwyth University students. Mark's research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Independent Social Research Foundation, the British Academy, HEFCW, and the Royal Geographical Society.
Additional Information
Dysgwr Cymraeg/Welsh learner
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- GGM3120 - Key Concepts and Debates in Human Geography
- GS16120 - Key Concepts in Sociology
- EAM4420 - Behaviour Change in a Changing Environment
- GGM2860 - MA Dissertation
- GS28910 - Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
- GS37520 - Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience
Grader
Tutor
- GS36820 - The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives
- EAM4420 - Behaviour Change in a Changing Environment
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
Coordinator
- GGM2860 - MA Dissertation
- GS28910 - Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
- EAM4420 - Behaviour Change in a Changing Environment
- GS16120 - Key Concepts in Sociology
- GS37520 - Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience
- GGM3120 - Key Concepts and Debates in Human Geography
Lecturer
- BBM8820 - Newid Ymddygiad
- EAM1120 - Advanced Research Skills 1: science communication and data analysis
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS30020 - The psychosocial century
- EAM4660 - Dissertation in Environmental Change Impacts and Adaptation
- GGM3120 - Key Concepts and Debates in Human Geography
- GS31240 - Sociology Dissertation
- DA25420 - Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes
- GS21520 - Human Geography and Sociology Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS20020 - Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
Key Concepts in Sociology
Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience
Behaviour Change (MSc)
The Psycho-Social Century
Research
Recent Publications:
Collier, W & Whitehead, M 2023, 'Corporate Governmentality: Building the Empirical and Theoretical Case', Territory, Politics, Governance. 10.1080/21622671.2022.2153159
Feitsma, J & Whitehead, M 2022 ‘Behavioural Expertise: Drift, Thrift and Shift under COVID-19’ International Review of Public Policy 4: 149-170
Current and Former PhD/Post. Doc. students
Greg Edwards, Shaima Alhosani, Sandy Stephens, Rachel Lilley, Chandra Kumar, James Robinson, Kerhsuan Chien, Julie McLeavey, Chris Yeomans, Anna Bullen, Ruth Stevenson, Kelvin Mason, Marcus Welsh, Katherine Phillips, Martin Burgess, Philip Conway, Matthew Melas, Neil Waghorn, Cery Jones. William Collier. Siobhan Maderson. Katherine Stewart.
Responsibilities
DGES Director of Marketing and Recruitment