Professor Keith Hoggart
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Vice-Principal's Office
King's College London
Room KO.53
Strand
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
Email: keith.hoggart@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2713
Alternatively you can contact Mrs Joanna Hoffman, PA to Professor Keith Hoggart, by email joanna.hoffman@kcl.ac.uk, or by telephone on +44 (0) 20 7848 7414.
King's College London
Room KO.53
Strand
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
Email: keith.hoggart@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2713
Alternatively you can contact Mrs Joanna Hoffman, PA to Professor Keith Hoggart, by email joanna.hoffman@kcl.ac.uk, or by telephone on +44 (0) 20 7848 7414.
Biography
Following an undergraduate degree in Geography and Social & Economic Statistics at Salford, Keith Hoggart completed a master’s degree by research at Salford, then a PhD at King’s College London. He started lecturing at King’s in 1978 and is now Professor of Geography. He has also taught at the University of Maryland and Temple University, as well as being Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley, with both Commonwealth Scholarship and Fulbright Scholarship awards funding research in North America.
Keith was Head of Geography for six years before a spell as Head of the School of Social Science & Public Policy. He is currently the College’s Vice-Principal with special responsibility for the four Arts & Sciences schools, and also for External Relations. He has been chair of both the Rural Geography and the Social & Cultural Geography research groups of the Royal Geographical Society, Secretary of the Conference of Heads of Geography Departments in Higher Education Institutions in the UK, and Treasurer for the Council of British Geography. He is a Governor of the Francis Holland Schools Trust and a Trustee of both the Theological Foundation and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Historical Library.
In recent years, Keith has reviewed research grant proposals for the Austrian Science Foundation, the British Academy, The British Council, the ESRC, the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was on the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC’s 2006-2011 Census of Population Programme, was an external assessor for the University of Manchester’s research review School of Environment & Development, was one of two international experts evaluating the performance of Taiwan’s key research universities, and was an OECD international assessor of rural policy in the Netherlands. He has been external examiner for undergraduate programmes at Glasgow, Royal Holloway, SOAS and Sussex, as well as PhD examiner at a variety of UK institutions.
Keith was elected a Fellow of King’s College London in 2004.
Keith was Head of Geography for six years before a spell as Head of the School of Social Science & Public Policy. He is currently the College’s Vice-Principal with special responsibility for the four Arts & Sciences schools, and also for External Relations. He has been chair of both the Rural Geography and the Social & Cultural Geography research groups of the Royal Geographical Society, Secretary of the Conference of Heads of Geography Departments in Higher Education Institutions in the UK, and Treasurer for the Council of British Geography. He is a Governor of the Francis Holland Schools Trust and a Trustee of both the Theological Foundation and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Historical Library.
In recent years, Keith has reviewed research grant proposals for the Austrian Science Foundation, the British Academy, The British Council, the ESRC, the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was on the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC’s 2006-2011 Census of Population Programme, was an external assessor for the University of Manchester’s research review School of Environment & Development, was one of two international experts evaluating the performance of Taiwan’s key research universities, and was an OECD international assessor of rural policy in the Netherlands. He has been external examiner for undergraduate programmes at Glasgow, Royal Holloway, SOAS and Sussex, as well as PhD examiner at a variety of UK institutions.
Keith was elected a Fellow of King’s College London in 2004.
