Professor Ian Whyte has extensive experience of the study of migration and mobility in early-modern Scotland and is currently undertaking research on the mobility of Church of Scotland Ministers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are currently three postgraduates working on relayed topics, and we welcome applications from potential students interested in all aspects of migration and mobility in the past and the present. Social, Economic and Landscape Change. Some four staff and ten research students are engaged in research on both recent and long-term changes in economy, society and environment. Dr. Gordon Clark works with colleagues throughout Europe on the economic and social restructuring of rural and marginal areas in Europe.
Current projects focus especially on tourism and rural supply chains.
Professor Ian Whyte is a leading exponent of research on landscape change, especially in Scotland and NW England, with current projects examining the impact of Parliamentary enclosure in upland areas of NW England and an analysis of the visibility of Hadrian's Wall. He is also a leading authority on the historical geography of early-modern Scotland. Professor Colin Pooley and Dr. Jean Turnbull are both Historical Geographers concerned with societal change in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Recent work by Pooley has included research on housing market change, ethnicity and crime in urban areas. Turnbull has undertaken work on housing in twentieth century Britain and on the history of the Co-operative movement.