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School of Geography

Professor Philip Ogden

Philip

Emeritus Professor of Geography

Email: p.e.ogden@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Philip Ogden is Emeritus Professor of Geography. He served as Senior Vice Principal of Queen Mary from 2005 to 2011, with particular responsibility for estate development. He was previously Vice Principal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (1998-2006) and Head of Geography (1992-6).

His research interests include demographic change and migration. He is currently working on contemporary household changes in European cities, both in suburbs and central cities; and on French rural society 1900-1950.

He also has an interest in higher education policy, particularly with respect to university building development for teaching and research. He was recently part of a research team on 'Learning Landscapes in Higher Education' funded by HEFCE. He has been closely involved in the oversight of many building projects at Queen Mary including the new Arts Two building, the £39 million Graduate Centre and the renovation of a number of listed buildings. In 2015, he was elected Chair of the UK Higher Education Design Quality Forum, which brings together universities, architects and other professionals. He serves as external consultant to a number of other universities, including the University of Cambridge where he is the external member of the £300 million Cavendish III Physics Project Board.

He chaired the St Paul's Way School Foundation Trust from 2010-15 and is now a Patron of the school. He served as a Trustee of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College Trust from 2003-13 and of the Central Foundation Schools of London 2010-13. He is currently a Trustee of the London Chamber Orchestra and was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2009. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2009 and admitted to the Livery of the Drapers' Company in 2012. He served as Master of the Company in 2018/19. He joined the Governing Body of Bancroft's School in Woodford Green in 2011 and was Chairman from 2013 to 2018.

Key recent publications:

  • R. Cook and P E Ogden (2016) 'Masterplanning' in I. Taylor (ed.) Future Campus. Design Quality in University Buildings, London: Royal Institute of British Architects, 11-21.
  • P. E Ogden (2014) 'Universities, competition and academic values' in M. Behar-Touchais, N. Charbit and R. Amaro (eds) A quoi sert la concurrence? (Paris), 655-662.
  • S. Buzar, A. Haase, R. Hall, A. Steinfuhrer, S. Kabisch and P. E. Ogden (2010) Household structure, migration trends and residential preferences in inner-city Leon, Spain: unpacking the demographies of reurbanisation, Urban Geography, 31, 2, 211-235.
  • A. Haase, S. Kabisch, A. Steinfuhrer, S. Bouzarovski, R. Hall, and P. E. Ogden (2010) Emergent spaces of reurbanisation: exploring the demographic dimension of inner-city residential change in a European setting, Population, Space and Place, 16, 443-463.
  • S. Buzar, P. E. Ogden, R. Hall, A. Haase, S. Kabisch and A. Steinfuhrer (2007) Splintering urban populations: emergent landscapes of reurbanisation in four European cities, Urban Studies, 44, 4, 651-677.
  • S. Buzar, P E Ogden and R Hall (2005) 'Households matter: the quiet demography of urban transformation', Progress in Human Geography, 29, 4, 413-436.
  • Ogden, P. E. and R. Hall (2004) The second demographic traansition, new household forms and the urban population of France during the 1990s Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, New Series, 29, 1, 88-105.
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