Department of Geography

Professor Peter Jackson

	Room number:	C12
	Telephone (internal):	27908
	Telephone (UK):	0114 222 7908
	Telephone (International):	+44 114 222 7908
	Email:	P.A.Jackson@Sheffield.ac.uk

Research interests

Current research

Peter Jackson's current research focuses on commodity culture and the geography of consumption. Previous projects include an ESRC-funded project on consumption and identity in North London (published as Shopping, Place and Identity, Routledge, 1998); ESRC-funded research on the production, content and readership of men's lifestyle magazines (published as Making Sense of Men's Magazines, Polity Press, 2001); a collaborative study (with colleagues at Royal Holloway and UCL) on "Commodity culture and South Asian transnationality", funded through ESRC´s Transnational Communities Programme and culminating in the publication of Transnational Spaces (Routledge, 2004); an ESRC-funded study of "Retail Competition and Consumer Choice" (with colleagues at Lancaster and MMU); and a study of food commodity chains, funded via the AHRB-ESRC Cultures of Consumption programme, culminating in the Food Stories website (see link, right).

He has recently completed a three-year period as Director of an inter-disciplinary research programme on "Changing Families, Changing Food". Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based in ICOSS (the University's social science facility), the programme involved collaboration with colleagues from Clinical Sciences, East Asian Studies, Geography, Nursing & Midwifery, ScHARR and Sociolgical Studies at Sheffield, together with colleagues in Health & Social Care at Royal Holloway, University of London. For further details and publications from this project, see the Changing Families, Changing Food website.

A new four-year research programme on "Consumer anxieties about food" (CONANX) began in January 2009, funded by the European Research Council. The programme will involve a team of six reseachers with co-investigators in Sheffield (Dr Matt Watson) and Sweden (Professor Helene Brembeck), plus a PhD student (also based in Sheffield). The research will focus on consumer anxieties about food at a range of geographical scales, from the global scale of international food markets to the domestic scale of individual households.

Key publications

• Jackson, P., Ward, N. and Russell, P. (2009). Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(1), 908-924.
  doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00330.x
• Jackson, P., Thomas, N. and Dwyer, C. (2007). Consuming Transnational fashion in London and Mumbai. Geoforum, 38(5), 908-924.
  doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.01.015
• Jackson, P., Ward, N. and Russell, P. (2006). Mobilising the commodity chain concept in the politics of food and farming. Journal of Rural Studies, 22(2), 129-141.
  doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.08.008
• Jackson, P. (2004). Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world, Transactions IBG, 29, 165-78.
  doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00123.x
• Crang, P., Dwyer, C. and Jackson, P. (2003). Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture, Progress in Human Geography, 27, 438-56.
  doi:10.1191/0309132503ph443oa

Other information

Postgraduate Supervision

Peter Jackson currently supervises five full-time PhD students (funded via ESRC and other sources).

Teaching

Peter Jackson's current teaching includes GEO163 (first-year tutorials), GEO356 (final-year dissertations) and a Masters-level module on Consumption Cultures.