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The building which houses the university's School of GeoSciences Institute of Geography at High School Yards, which was once part of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences, is a school within the College of Science and Engineering, which was formed in 2002 [1] by the merger of four departments. [2]
Charles William John Withers, FBA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSGS (born 6 December 1954) is a British historical geographer and academic. He has been the Geographer Royal for Scotland since 2015, and held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 2019.
The Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography is the name for the occupant of the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.It is named in honour of Alan Grant Ogilvie FRSE (1887–1954), the first professor (1931) of their Department of Geography and an important figure in the early years of the Department of Geography at Edinburgh, who had died in office.
Cresswell was an 'airforce kid' [2] and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, a boarding school founded by London County Council (it closed in 1990). He studied geography at University College London and a PhD at University of Wisconsin Madison (1986-1992) that was later made into a book (Cresswell, 1996).
Chisolm was born in Edinburgh on 1 May 1850, the son of an actuary. [2] He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, and then the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1870. [3] He lectured on Geography in London from 1883 to 1908 and then returned to the University of Edinburgh where he lectured until 1923.
Alan Grant Ogilvie OBE FRSE FRSGS (1887–10 February 1954) was a Scottish geographer after whom the University of Edinburgh's Ogilvie Chair in Human Geography is named. He was President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society from 1946 to 1950 and President of the Institute of British Geographers from 1951 to 1952.
John Alan Dawson is Professor of Marketing at the University of Edinburgh; he is a Geographer, and specialist in retail innovation, . Dawson graduated in Geography from University College London in 1965 with an interest in urban geography.
Edinburgh Napier University has campuses in the south and west of the city, including the former Merchiston Tower and Craiglockhart Hydropathic. [248] It is home to the Screen Academy Scotland. Queen Margaret University was located in Edinburgh before it moved outside the city boundary to a new campus in the county of East Lothian on the ...