Prof  Kevin Ward - Further information

At the University of Manchester

• Director of External Relations (2012-)
• Director, cities@manchester (2010- )
• Research Director, School of Environment and Development (2005-6, 2008)
• Dissertation Director, Undergraduate Degree Programme (2007-2011)
• Programme Director, MA Economy and Space (2000-2005)
• Programme Director, MA Human Geography (2002-2005)
• Undergraduate admissions Tutor (2002-2005)
• Personal Tutor of first, second and third year students (2000-2005)
• Mentor for a number of recently appointed faculty (2007-)

Professional memberships / fellowships

• Chair, Urban Geography Speciality Group committee, AAG (2012- )
• Honorary Fellow, Research Institute in Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), University of Manchester (2007-2012 )
• Honorary Fellow, Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester (2008-2011 )
• Affiliate, Sloan Industry Studies Program (October 2007- )
• Honorary Research Fellow, European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester (2000-2006)
• Member of ESRC Research College (2004-2008)
• Honorary Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester (2000-2004)
• Member of the Association of American Geographers (2003- )
• Member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers (1998- )

Editorships: Journals / books

• Editor, Area (2010- )
• Member of Antipode editorial board (2004- )
• Member of Spaces & Flows advisory board (2011-)
• Editor (Urban Section), Geography Compass (2009-2012
• Editor (Human Geography) RGS-IBG Book Series (Wiley Blackwell) (2005-2010)
• Member of Local Economy editorial board (2004-2005)
• Member of Work, Employment and Society editorial board (2001-2004)

2011: 'The post-political urban condition and the mobility of policies: some thoughts', Open University, June

2011: 'Assembling urbanism: Following policies  and 'studying through' the sites and situations of policy-making' Association of American Geographers annual conference, Seattle, April

2010: ‘Relational comparisons’, Open Space Seminar, Open University, October

2009: ‘Comparative urbanism’ RGS-IBG annual conference, Manchester, August

2009: ‘Delivering the sanitised downtown: the case of Milwaukee’, Construction and consumption of placeless space conference, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Work Studies, University of Liverpool, April

2009: ‘Comparing cities under neo-liberal conditions’, Plenary at Redefinition of public space with the privatization of cities: 5th international conference of the research network of private urban governance and gated communities, University of Santiago, March

2009: ‘Making the new urban politics possible? Topological geographies of urban expertise and knowledge, Association of American Geographers annual conference, Las Vegas, March

2008: ‘Variegated temporary staffing markets’, Metropolis, Bonn, October

2008: ‘Variegated temporary staffing markets’, Globalisation and service workplaces, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October

2008: ‘Varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from five countries’, Transforming work: a multi-disciplinary conference on new forms of employment and their regulation, University of Oxford, September

2008: ‘Varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from five countries’, ESRC Cultures of Competitiveness seminar, Manchester, July (with N Coe)

2008: 'Flexibility in action: the temporary staffing industry and labour market restructuring in the Czech Republic and Poland, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June   

2008: ‘Post-socialist varieties of temporary staffing: evidence from the Czech Republic and Poland’, Alfred P Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Annual Conference, Boston, May

2008: ‘Mainstreaming public geographies’, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, March

2008: ‘Towards a conceptualization of cities in the world’, Policy transfer session, Association of American Geographers annual conference, Boston, March (with E McCann)