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Neil Wrigley FBA, FAcSS, DSc, PhD (b. 27 March 1948) is Professor of Human Geography and former Head of the Department of Geography & Environment, University of Southampton. He was elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) in 2012, and previously to Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (2004). He has held a number of prominent positions in Geography, Urban Planning, and the Social Sciences in general - being previously Head of the School of City & Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff, Reader in Geography at the University of Bristol and a Committee Member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. He has also advised Government Depts, international agencies , national academies, and major multinational firms

He is noted as a leading editor of academic journals, editing the flagship journal of UK Geography – Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1988-1993), and then founding and editing from 2001-2014, the world-class cross-disciplinary Journal of Economic Geography, published by Oxford University Press. He has also served on the Editorial Boards of several leading international journals including Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies , Contemporary Social Science and several retail-management journals.

Author of 175 academic journal papers and several well-known books, Neil's research for the last 25 years has centred on economic geography with a distinctive focus on retail and consumption. An acknowledged world-expert in those fields and more generally in his discipline (10,557 citations, H-index 56 - Google Scholar accessed 17/11/2017) his research and scholarship has attracted many prizes including the Ashby Prize (2004), the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society (2008), and the ESRC Outstanding Impact on Business Award (2014), together with prestigious Research Fellowships including the John Angus Erskine Fellowship (New Zealand) 1995, Senior Research Fellowship, St Peter's College , Oxford, 1996-97, and ESRC and Leverhulme Trust Fellowships.

Awards and appointments

 * Sole academic member of Government Policy Advisory Group the Future High Streets Forum 2013-15
 * ESRC Outstanding Impact in Business Award 2014
 * Founding editor, Journal of Economic Geography (Oxford University Press) 2001-14
 * Director, ESRC Retail Industry Business Engagement Network (RIBEN) 2008-13
 * Elected a Fellow of The British Academy 2012
 * Chair of Annual Conference, Royal Geographical Society 2009-10
 * Royal Geographical Society's Murchison Award 2008
 * Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) 2007 Distinguished Visiting Scholar
 * Ashby Prize 2004, Environment and Planning A
 * Member of Academic Development Board, Worldwide Universities Network 2001-03
 * Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 1998-99
 * Senior Research Fellow, St Peter’s College, Oxford 1996-97
 * Visiting Scholar, St Catharine's College, Cambridge 1996
 * John Angus Erskine Fellowship (New Zealand) 1995
 * Member of Council, Institute of British Geographers 1988-93
 * Editor, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 1988-93
 * Member, ESRC Research Resources and Methods Committee, Chair of constituent subcommittees, and member of several joint Research Council/Government Department committees

Recent Research Grants, Themes and Publications
Since 2000 he has generated (mainly as PI) more than £3.75 mill of research support - across a spectrum from 100% RCUK funded, through 50/50 RCUK/industry co-funded, to 100% industry-funded - facilitating a group of projects which have had notable impact both within and especially outside academic circles in the wider user community.

Particularly well-known contributions he has made since 2000 have included: Research awards since 2000
 * 1) Pioneering work on issues of food poverty, diet-related inequalities and food retail access in underserved low-income neighbourhoods in British cities
 * 2) Internationally recognized research on transnational retail and the global economy
 * 3) Public policy oriented contributions to debates on: the evolution and resilience of UK High Streets

Examples of 100% RCUK and 50/50 co-funded RCUK/industry awards include: Examples of 100% industry-funded awards include: Publications illustrative of these awards include
 * 2017-18 AMR
 * 2012-15 The future of the high street
 * 2007-12 ESRC Retail industry business engagement network (RIBEN)
 * 2005-07 Organising ethical trade
 * 2001-04 Globalizing retail and the challenge of e-commerce
 * 2000-04 Food deserts in British cities
 * 2011-12 Evaluating the impact of small foodstore gdevelopment on small towns
 * 2007-10 Revisiting the impacts of large foodstore development on market towns and district centres
 * 2007-08 Entry and exit of small and specialist stores in British high streets
 * 2005-06 Relocalising food shopping: consumer responses to supply chain transformation in the UK convenience store sector

2017 "Towards new economic geographies of retail globalization", Chapter in The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Oxford University Press) (with N.M. Coe)

2017 "An Economic Geography of Globalizing Retail: Emergence, Characteristics, Contribution", In : The Routledge Companion to Economic Geography and International Business, (: Routledge). (with S.Wood)

2017 "Capital Discipline and Financial Market Relations in Retail Globalization: Insights from the Case of Tesco plc", Journal of Economic Geography 17(1):31-57 (with S.Wood, N.M. Coe)

2017 "Linked-trip effects of 'town-centre-first'era foodstore development: An assessment using difference-in-differences, Environment & Planning B Planning and Design 44(1) (with D.Lambiri, A.Faggian)

2016 "Multi-Scalar Localization and Capability Transference: Exploring Embeddedness in the Asian Retail Expansion of Tesco", Regional Studies, 50:3, 47-495 (with S. Wood, N.M. Coe)

2015 "British High Streets: From Crisis to Recovery? A comprehensive Review of the Evidence Base", (ESRC) 108pp (with D. Lambiri)

2011 "Resilience, fragility, and adaptation: new evidence of the performance of UK high streets during global economic crisis", Environment and Planning A, 43, 2337-2363 (with L. Dolega) [Nominated for AESOP "Best Published Paper" Prize]

2010 "The globalisation of trade in retail services", Expert Report commissioned by OECD, Paris, 38 pages (with M. Lowe)

2010 "The 'continuously morphing' retail TNC during market entry: interpreting Tesco's expansion into the USA", Economic Geography, 86, 381-408 (with M. Lowe)

2009 "Extending the Competition Commission's findings on entry and exit of small stores in British high streets: implications for competition and planning policy", Environment and Planning A, 41, 2063-2085 (with J. Branson, A. Murdock, and G. Clarke)

2007 "Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda", Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 341-371 (with N.M. Coe)

2005 "Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation", Progress in Human Geography, 29, 437-457 (with N.M Coe and A.D. Currah)

2003 "Deprivation, diet and food retail access: findings from the Leeds 'food deserts' study", Environment and Planning A, 35, 151-188 (with D.L. Warm and B.M. Margetts) [Awarded Ashby Prize 2004}