12 Facts About Ceri Peach

Guthlac Ceri Klaus Peach was a geographer from Bridgend, Wales.

Ceri Peach was an undergraduate, graduate student, and lecturer at Merton College, Oxford before being appointed to a lectureship in geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1965 at the age of 26.

Ceri Peach held this post jointly with a lectureship at Keble College, Oxford and a Faculty Lectureship at the University of Oxford.

Ceri Peach was elected as a tutorial fellow in geography at St Catherine's in 1969 and held various non-teaching posts, including several college offices: Domestic Bursar, Senior Tutor, Finance Bursar and Acting Master.

Ceri Peach was Professor of Social geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford from 1992 to 2007 and on retirement from his Oxford chair he was appointed Professor of at the Institute for Social Change at the University of Manchester.

Ceri Peach's research proved that while the so-called 'Protestant pot' seemed plausible, a 'Catholic-pot' seemed unlikely:.

Ceri Peach examined the growth of the Muslim population in Europe, and particularly in Britain, and this has developed into a large scale study of the cultural geography of Muslim mosques, Sikh Gurdwaras and Hindu Mandirs on the landscape of Britain.

Ceri Peach was a member of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

On 22 September 2007 Ceri Peach retired from St Catherine's College and became an emeritus fellow at the College.

In 2008, the BBC reported that, along with Ludi Simpson and Danny Dorling, Ceri Peach was considered to be one of the top three British thinkers in the field of racial segregation.

In 2016, Ceri Peach was awarded a Doctorate of Letters by the University of Oxford, which is one of the highest academic honours that the University may confer.

Outside his research interests, Ceri Peach has maintained a keen interest in rowing:.