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Aberystwyth University
Llandinam Building
Penglais
Aberystwyth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Michael Woods joined Aberystwyth University as a Lecturer in Human Geography in 1996, having completed his first degree of the University of Wales, Lampeter, and his PhD at Bristol University, and was appointed as Professor of Human Geography in 2008. Between 2007 and 2013 he was Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences. In 2014 he was appointed to a four-year post as Professor of Transformative Social Science, responsible for building capacity in social science research across the university.
Mike's research interests focus on rural geography and political geography. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society / WISERD@Aberystwyth, an interdisciplinary research centre bringing together geographers, political scientists, historians and other researchers. He is also Aberystwyth Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), and Co-Director and Theme Leader for the ESRC WISERD/Civil Society Research Centre (2014-19). Mike holds a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant, GLOBAL-RURAL, which investigates globalization and rural areas (2014-19) and is Co-ordinator of the €5m IMAJINE project, funded by the European Union's Hoirzon 2020 programme to examine territorial inequalities and spatial justice (2017-2021).
Mike has held previous research grants from the ESRC, AHRC and EU Framework Programme 7, and was Co-Director of the Wales Rural Observatory, a collaborative centre with Cardiff University funded by the Welsh Government to undertake research to support rural development. He is Editor of the Journal of Rural Studies and Co-Editor of the Policy Press Book Series on Civil Society and Social Change.
Mike was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018 and as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017. He was awarded the John Fraser Hart Prize for Research Excellence in Rural Geography by the Association of American Geographers in 2010, and has held positions as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Ljubljana and University of Queensland. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a member of the Welsh Government's Independent Review of Student Finance and Higher Education Funding, chaired by Sir Ian Diamond.
Michael Woods's research interests address the broad fields of rural geography and sociology, political geography, economic geography and social geography, with a particular focus on the politics and dynamics of rural change. His current and recent research falls primarily into five main areas:
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Economic and Social Research Council
01 Oct 2019 → 30 Sept 2024
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Economic and Social Research Council
01 Oct 2021 → 31 Mar 2023
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Economic and Social Research Council
01 Mar 2021 → 31 May 2022
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01 Jun 2017 → 30 Nov 2021
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01 Jan 2017 → 30 Jun 2022
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Jones, I. R., Murphy, P. D., O'Hanlon, F., Royles, E., Anderson, J., Blackaby, D., Bryson, A., Chaney, P., Cole, A. M., Davies, R., Davis, H., Drinkwater, S., Feilzer, M., Green, A., Heley, J., Higgs, G., Hyde, M., Johns, N., Jones, R., Jones, R. D., Jones, M., Jones, M., Langford, M., Mann, R., McVie, S., Milbourne, P., Moles, K., Orford, S., Paterson, L., Power, S. A., Ress, G., Roberts, G., Robinson, C., Taylor, C. M., Thompson, A., Wincott, D., Woods, M., Jones, L., Stafford , I. & Staneva, A.
Economic and Social Research Council
01 Oct 2014 → 30 Sept 2019
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Economic and Social Research Council
01 Oct 2014 → 30 Sept 2019
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01 Feb 2014 → 31 Jan 2019
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Montgomeryshire Community Regeneration Association
01 Oct 2013 → 30 Sept 2014
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Llywodraeth Cymru | Welsh Government
01 Aug 2013 → 30 Sept 2013
Project: Externally funded research
Arts and Humanities Research Council
01 Oct 2012 → 31 Dec 2016
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18 Apr 2023
2 items of Media coverage
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17 Apr 2023
1 item of Media coverage
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01 Apr 2023
1 item of Media coverage
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01 Apr 2023
1 item of Media coverage
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31 Mar 2023
2 items of Media coverage
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30 Mar 2023
1 item of Media coverage
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01 Dec 2022
2 items of Media coverage
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25 Mar 2022
1 Media contribution
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22 Mar 2022
1 Media contribution
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01 Nov 2021
1 Media contribution
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15 Sept 2021
1 Media contribution
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Michael Woods (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Michael Woods (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Michael Woods (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
Michael Woods (Participant)
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Michael Woods (Member)
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Michael Woods (Member)
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Flossie Caerwynt (Speaker), Amy Sanders (Speaker), Rhys Dafydd Jones (Speaker) & Michael Woods (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Michael Woods (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
Michael Woods (Speaker), Marie Mahon (Speaker) & Matt Finch (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Woods, Michael (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Election to learned society
Woods, Michael (Recipient) & Doonan, John (Recipient), 17 May 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Woods, Michael (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)