Ron Johnston (geographer)

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Ron Johnston at the 1999 International Geography Festival

Ronald John Johnston,

FAcSS, FBA (March 30, 1941 – May 29, 2020) was a British geographer, known for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography.[1][2] His broad scope is illustrated by the fact that he made extensive use of quantitative methods, while critically dealing with subjects of social and political relevance.[2] Johnston authored or co-authored more than 50 books and 800 papers, and edited or co-edited a further more than 40 books (if translated and revised editions are counted separately).[3][4]
He edited The Dictionary of Human Geography and for the first four editions was its main editor.

Academic career

After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees from the

Environment and Planning A that same year. In 1981, the first edition of The Dictionary of Human Geography, to which Johnston contributed hundreds of articles,[4] was published. It has maintained its status as the discipline's authoritative dictionary ever since.[5] After serving as pro-vice-chancellor for academic affairs of the University of Sheffield, he became vice-chancellor of the University of Essex in 1992.[6] From 1995, Johnston was a professor at the University of Bristol
. He retired from the editorial boards of both Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A in 2006.

Recognition

Johnston was one of the most cited geographers for decades.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.[10]

Campanology

Johnston was an active bell-ringer. He published two books on aspects of campanology, "Change-Ringing: the English Art of Bell-Ringing" and "An Atlas of Bells", and was co-compiler of three editions of "Dove’s Guide to the Church Bells of Britain". Johnston served as ringing master of the Sheffield Cathedral Company of Ringers from 1980 to 1992, as president of the Yorkshire Association of Change Ringers from 1990 to 1992, and as president of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers from 1993 to 1996.[11]

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Johnston, R. J. (1971): Urban Residential Patterns: An Introductory Review. London (G . Bell & Sons).
    ISBN 0-7135-1675-5
  • Johnston, R. J. (1978): Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Geography: A Primer on the General Linear Model. London (Longman).
    ISBN 0-582-48677-7
  • ISBN 0-7099-0056-2
  • Johnston, R. J. (1979): Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945. London (Edward Arnold).
    ISBN 0-7131-6239-2
    (7th edition announced for publication in 2010)
  • Johnston, R. J. (1991): A Question of Place: Exploring the Practice of Human Geography. Blackwell (Oxford).
    ISBN 0-631-15603-8

Edited Collections

Notes

  1. SCI, he was identified as the second most cited geographer for 1981–1985, and the third most cited one for 1986–1990 (Bodman, A. (1992): Holes in the Fabric. More on the Master Weavers in Human Geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 17 (1): 108–109). In another citation count that covered more than 20 years (1981 – October 2002), this time based on the SSCI and the A&HCI
    , Johnston was listed as one of twelve geographers who had been cited more than 1000 times (Yeung, H. W. (2002): Deciphering citations. Environment and Planning A 34 (12): 2093–2102).

References

  1. ^ a b British Academy Fellows Archive
  2. ^ a b c Sidaway, J. (2009): Johnston, R. J. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: 11–13. Elsevier (Amsterdam).
  3. ^ a b Professor Johnston receives a lifetime achievement award Archived 29 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Announcement by the University of Bristol. Published 3 December 2009, retrieved 3 February 2010
  4. ^ a b c List of publications, as of 2009
  5. ^ Setten, G. (2008): Encyclopaedic Vision: Speculating on The Dictionary of Human Geography. Geoforum 39 (3): 1097–1104.
  6. ^ a b University of Essex Calendar Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on 22 February 2010
  7. ^ Roll of Honorary Graduates at Monash University (1990–1999), retrieved on 22 February 2010
  8. ^ University of Sheffield Honorary Degree Recipients 2002, retrieved on 22 February 2010
  9. ^ University of Bath Honorary Graduates 2005
  10. ^ "No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 11.
  11. ^ Bristol University website. Retrieved 01.06/20

External links

Academic offices
Preceded by
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex

1992–1995 		Succeeded by
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