Colin G. Pooley

Colin G. Pooley (born c.1951) is professor emeritus of social and historical geography at the University of Lancaster where he worked from 1975 until c.2011. He is a specialist in transport and migration studies.[1]

Colin G. Pooley
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisMigration, Mobility and Residential Areas in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool (1979)
Academic work
DisciplineGeographer
Institutions
Main interestsTransport and Migration studies

Background

Pooley has lived and worked in North-West England since birth. He attended the University of Liverpool, graduating with an honours degree in Geography in 1972 (Rural economy and agricultural change in the upper Itchen Valley, 1500-1800) and PhD in Geography in 1979 (Migration, mobility and residential areas in nineteenth-century Liverpool). He began teaching at Lancaster University in 1975, remaining until retirement and occupying several administrative roles including head of the former Department of Geography. He was associated with the former Centre for North-West Regional Studies, and latterly Lancaster's Centre for Mobilities Research.

Scholarship

Pooley works on the social and historical geography of Britain and continental Europe since the eighteenth century. He began his career investigating housing, health, crime, ethnicity and social change, notably in Liverpool.

His more recent research has been on migration, mobility and sustainable urban travel, with one current (2018) project conducting comparative analyses of sustainable urban mobility in Europe, and culture and society from the 1890s to the present. His research techniques have included archival work, travel diaries, policy analysis and qualitative research techniques.

He is the author of numerous volumes and articles on these topics.

Selected publications
  • The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities. 1982. (Editor with J.H. Johnson)
  • The Development of Corporation Housing in Liverpool, 1869-1945. 1984. (Resource paper of the Centre for North West Regional Studies) (With Sandra Irish)
  • Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants: Social History of Migration. 1991. (Edited with Ian D. Whyte)
  • Britain, 1740-1950: An Historical Geography. 1992. (With Richard Lawton)
  • Housing Strategies in Europe, 1800-1930. Leicester University Press, London, 1992. (Editor)[2] ISBN 0718514157
  • Space, Time and Society. 2001.
  • A Mobile Century? Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century. 2005 (Joint editor)
  • Travelling Around Town: Everyday Mobility in Manchester and Salford Since the 1940s. 2005. (With Jean Turnbull)
  • Travelling Around Town: Everyday Mobility in Lancaster and Morecambe Since the 1940s. 2005.
  • The Diary of Elizabeth Lee: Growing up on Merseyside in the Late Nineteenth Century. 2010. (Joint editor)
  • ed. Promoting walking and cycling. 2013.
  • Mobility, Migration and Transport: Historical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2017.

References
  1. Professor Colin Pooley. Mobilities.Lab, University of Lancaster. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. Reviews : Colin G. Pooley, ed., Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880-1930, Judith F. Stone, European History Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, 1994.
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