Joe Painter

Joe Painter (born c. 1960s) is a British geographer and academic.

He is as of 2006 a Professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Director in the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies (ICRDS) at the University of Durham in the U. K.] .

Education

Painter has degrees in Geography from:
*University of Cambridge (BA)
*The Open University (PhD)

Academic career

Painter started to work as a teacher in the 1990's. Between 1991 and 1993 he was a geography lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Subsequent to this he moved to the University of Durham and became Professor there in 2004. During the academic year 2004-2005 Painter was on leave at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he was the Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies.

Painter has also became a member of various organizations and magazines:

*Between 1996/9 he was editor of the magazine Area.
*Since 1997 he has been a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Space and Polity and
*Since from 2002 of the Canadian Geographer.

Areas of expertise

* Urban and regional politics and policy
* Regional identity
* Geographies of citizenship and democracy
* Geographies of the state, governance and regulation
* Political geographies of European integration
* Social and political theory

ee also

*Lampeter Geography School

External links

* [http://www.dur.ac.uk/j.m.painter/ Painter's website]