Peter Haggett

Who is Peter Haggett?

Peter Haggett, CBE Sc.D. FBA is an eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

Haggett was born 1933 in the rural Somerset village of Pawlett, and he was educated at Dr Morgan's Grammar School in Bridgwater. He would later credit the time spent in his childhood walking and cycling around the district for the development of his keen interest in geography.

In 1951 he entered undergraduate studies at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read Geography. Peter Hall, the noted urban geographer, was one of his contemporaries. Haggett graduated in 1954, obtaining a "Double First".

In an academic career spanning half a century, Professor Haggett is noted for his significant research contributions to the field of human geography, and is the author or editor of over 30 books on geographical practice, theory and individual research topics.