Adam Tickell FAcSS was born on 1965 and is a British economic geographer, whose work explores finance, English local governance, and the politics of ideas.
15 Facts About Adam Tickell
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Adam Tickell is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
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Adam Tickell edited the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
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Adam Tickell obtained a first-class degree in Geography in 1987 from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the same institution on the social regulation of banking.
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Adam Tickell later joined Royal Holloway, becoming dean and vice-principal.
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Adam Tickell joined the University of Birmingham in 2011, becoming provost and vice-principal.
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Adam Tickell became the vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex in 2016.
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Adam Tickell became vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham in January 2022.
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Adam Tickell is the current chair of Universities UK Open Access Implementation Group.
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Adam Tickell is one a number of geographers active since the 1980s studying the spatial and economic expression of capital, finance, and global markets.
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Adam Tickell's most cited work is "Neoliberalizing space", an article with Jamie Peck in Antipode journal, published in 2002 and cited 4,600 times by 2018.
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Adam Tickell was editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers in the mid-2000s and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Adam Tickell told The Badger that the UCU strikes would achieve nothing, even though he was once a UCU member and rep; this proved incorrect.
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In December 2020, during his tenure as vice-chancellor, Adam Tickell presided over the largest rent strike in the University's history.
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Sussex UCU claimed that Adam Tickell had not upheld the dignity and respect of trans students and staff.