Ceri Peach
Ceri Peach | |
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Doctorate of Letters, Ethnic Geography Distinguished Scholar of 2008 | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social geography |
| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Manchester Australian National University Yale University |
Guthlac Ceri Klaus Peach (26 October 1939 – 3 October 2018
He was elected as a tutorial fellow (teaching fellow) in geography at St Catherine's in 1969[3] and also held various non-teaching posts, including several college offices: Domestic Bursar, Senior Tutor, Finance Bursar and Acting Master. During his tenure as Senior Tutor, women were first admitted to the college. As Domestic Bursar, he negotiated college charges with the then Junior Common Room President, Peter Mandelson.[5]
He was Professor of Social geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford from 1992 to 2007 and on retirement from his Oxford chair he was appointed Professor of at the Institute for Social Change at the University of Manchester.[3]
Time at St Catherine's College
Peach found the move from Merton, Oxford's oldest college, to St Catherine's (known as St Catz), Oxfords newest college, to be liberating:
“When I arrived, Catz was still being built, the yew hedges in the quad were only knee-high, the Fellows were newly appointed and the drive was underway to make the college great."[5]
During his time at St Catherine's the number of undergraduate geographers accepted by the college increased from 4 each year to between 10 and 12. The University Schools results also became some of the best in the arts subjects at the college.[4] Notable students taught by Ceri Peach include Denis Cosgrove, who went on to become Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at University of California, Los Angeles; Mike Walker and Geoff Duller, who went on to become professors of geography at the University of Wales; Mike Summerfield, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Edinburgh; Vaughan Robinson, professor at King's College London; Michael Keith, professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London; Gary Bridge, professor at Cardiff University, Chris Keylock, professor of fluid mechanics at Loughborough University, and Dr Margaret Byron, teaching fellow at the University of Leicester.[4]
Other graduates in geography taught by Peach at St Catherine's have achieved success in other fields and include Matthew Pinsent, who received four gold medals for rowing in successive Olympic Games.[4]
Field of research
Peach's main field of research was
During his
During his next sabbatical at
"As the Irish were residentially mixed with the British, Scandinavians and Germans, and separated from the Poles and Italians, this suggested an ‘old European’ rather than a ‘Protestant’ melting pot. There was, in fact, a white melting pot which began with the ‘old’ Europeans and into which Poles, Italians and, to an extent, Jewish populations were added as time went on."
His research in the 1970s and 1980s focused on housing tenure and segregation in the United Kingdom and the United States and during this time he worked closely with Dr Samir Shah and later with Dr Margaret Byron.[4]
In the 1990s and 2000s Peach continued his research on issues of segregation with particular focus on the dynamics relating to, and the arguments surrounding,
His
Retirement
On 22 September 2007 Ceri Peach retired from St Catherine’s College and became an
Recalling his time at the college Peach remarked:
"My career has been an exciting and a full one. I am grateful for the opportunities it has offered me to teach – and be taught by – my students, and also for the fellowship of my colleagues."[5]
Subsequent career
In 2008, the
In 2016, Peach was awarded a
Publications
Selected publications include:[9]
- Urban Social Segregation (1975)(ISBN 0582480892)
- The Caribbean in Europe, contrasting patterns of migration and settlement in Britain, France and the Netherlands (1991) (ISBN 094830362X)
- West Indian Migrations to Britain: A Social Geography. (1968) (ASIN B0017D0DSI)
Selected co-authored, or co-edited, publications include:[9]
- Ethnic Segregation in Cities (with Vaughan Robinson, and Susan Smith) (1981) (ISBN 0709920121)
- South Asians Overseas: Migration and Ethnicity (with Clarke, C., and S. Vertovec) (1990) (ISBN 0521129656)
- Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. (with Clarke, C., and S. Vertovec) (1990)
- Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Migration, Minorities & Citizenship) (edited with Steven Vertovec) (1997)(ISBN 0333687035)
- Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities (edited with Roger Goodman, Ayumi Takenaka, and Paul White)(2003) (ISBN 0415297419)
Interest in rowing
Outside his research interests, Peach has maintained a keen interest in rowing:
"Catz has had a strong stream of oarsmen – many of whom I have had the privilege to teach. Sir Matthew Pinsent (1989, Geography) remains a golden star – he never missed a tutorial, never failed to produce an essay, took a good degree and demonstrated that athletes at a high level are more conscious of time planning, and more efficient at meeting commitments, than many others with far less pressure on them."[5]
Other notable rowers, who comprise part of the strong Olympic Games rowing tradition at St Catherine's, include Colin Smith (2003, Geography), Andrew Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography and the Environment) and Stephan Mølvig (2005, Geography and the Environment).[8]
Other work
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1982-1987.
References
- ^ "Obituaries". University of Oxford Gazette. 149 (5219): 107. 25 October 2018.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 507.
- ^ a b c "SSO Login Service - Stale Request". diversity.psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h St. Catherine's College: The Ceri Peach Trust Fund, St Catherine’s College Development Office, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h St Catherine's College Year, 2007; St Catherine's College Development Office, 2007
- ^ a b "Professor Ceri Peach | Staff | School of Geography and the Environment | University of Oxford". www.geog.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ "So who's right over segregation?". news.bbc.co.uk. 4 September 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ a b Catz Eye, the St. Catherine's College newsletter, Michaelmas 2016
- ^ a b "Professor Ceri Peach | Staff | School of Geography and the Environment | University of Oxford". www.geog.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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