Peter Wood

• Visiting professor at the University of Lund (Sweden), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, University of Minnesota / Macalester College, U.S.A., and in 2010 at the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo
• Head of the UCL Geography Department from 1997 until 2002. Other past roles include UCL Schools Liaison Officer, membership of many College and university committees, and Geography undergraduate and admissions tutors
• Vice-Chair and Final Assessor, Chartered Geography Scheme, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 2002-14
• Honorary Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 2015
• Honorary Secretary, Council for British Geography (COBRIG), 2000-2016
• Chair The Frederick Soddy Trust

• UCL Council
• UCL Academic Board
• UCL Social and Historical Sciences Faculty Board
• 1997-2002Head of UCL Geography Department
• 2002-2003: Convenor of UCL Geography's Centenary Celebration Events
• Co-Chair of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Chartered Geographers Assessors’ Panel.
• Honorary Secretary of Council for British Geography

During the 1990s, Professor Wood led four major collaborative projects funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the European Commission. These projects investigated:

• The development of small business service companies in Southeast and Northwest England (with D. Keeble and J. Bryson)
• The regional impacts of consultancy use by large client organisations
• The conditions influencing foreign market entry and development by business service companies (with P. O’Farrell)
• The impact of growing consultancy use on innovation in Europe (with teams from eight other EU countries)

More recent work has focused on:

• The innovative basis of UK and European cities, particularly the role of knowledge-intensive business services
• The prospects for inner-city enterprise in London (for the London Borough of Camden)
• Entrepreneurial ‘spin-offs’ from universities in London (with H. Lawton-Smith)
• The international movement of expert staff by multinational companies, including consultancies (with J. Salt)

These studies combine fieldwork, data analysis, and organisational research to understand how technical and managerial expertise shapes economic and regional outcomes.

• MJ Taylor (UCL, 1970) – Spatial linkage and the West Midlands iron foundry industry
• KC Liang (UCL, 1972) – Kowloon: a factorial study of urban land use and retail structure
• R Auty (UCL, 1973) – Scale economies and plant location in the Caribbean sugar industry
• DJ North (UCL, 1974) – Location change in the development of the firm: a study of the UK plastics industry since 1960
• RF Tomlinson (UCL, 1974) – The development of a Geographical Information System: the case of the Canada Geographic Information System
• KC Tan (UCL, 1979) – Constrained control of spatial systems: an application to the allocation of the rate support grant
• AC McKinnon (UCL, 1984) – The spatial organisation of physical distribution in the food industry
• T Herrschel (UCL, 1993) – Economic restructuring and local policies in the 1980s: a comparative study of England and Germany
• Kemal Ahson (UCL, 1999, Committee) – Biotechnology and ‘novel foods’
• Ben Malbon (UCL, 1999, Committee) – Youth consumption in the city: clubbing in London
• Richard Goodall (UCL, 2002) – Charity shops: organisation, representation and retailing in the voluntary sector
• Paul Sissons (UCL, 2009) – Labour market restructuring in deindustrialised areas: a UK and US comparison

• Realising the Full Potential of London and the Core Cities
  Funding: Manchester City Council / Greater London Authority (Core Cities Group) | Duration: 2002–2003
• State of the Cities Report – Innovativeness and Creativity in London
  Funding: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) | Duration: 2004
• Enterprise Development in Deprived Areas: Towards an Inclusive Knowledge Economy
  Funding: London Borough of Camden / London Development Agency | Duration: 2005
• University-related Companies in Science, Engineering and the Creative Arts
  Funding: London Higher | Duration: 2006–2007
• International Corporate Mobility: Return Survey on Effects of Recession
  Funding: Leverhulme Trust | Duration: 2009–2010
• Satisfying Labour Demand through Migration
  Funding: Home Office / European Migration Network | Duration: 2010–2011
• International Staff Mobility and UK Overseas University Campuses
  Funding: Leverhulme Trust | Duration: 2011–2012