Pro-Vice-Chancellor - Learning & Teaching
Professor Paul White
Paul is Professor of European Urban Geography. He joined the teaching staff in Sheffield in 1974. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Paris, Cagliari, Zaragoza and Oxford. Although his teaching concentrates on European Themes, he has also taught population geography, social geography and the philosophy and methodology of human geography.
In 2006 Paul received the Edward Heath Award of the Royal Geographical Society for contributions to research on the geography of Europe. The most significant research themes he has pursued concern international migration, ethnicity, social exclusion, and neighbourhood change. Visiting other European countries, and particularly their major cities, combines work and play for Paul, whose favourite and much-visited cities at the moment are Berlin, Lisbon and Paris.
Paul chairs many committees and groups within the University but outside the University he is a member of the Teaching Quality and Student Experience Strategic Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He is also co-chair of the Higher Education Academy´s Pro-Vice-Chancellor network. Close to home he is a governor of Longley Park Sixth Form College in Sheffield.