A PRESTIGIOUS professorship has been awarded to a hard-working and dedicated Greenfield professor.
Richard Knowles received the Emeritus Professorship for his work in Transport Geography at Salford University, along with two of his colleagues.
Over the years, he has made an outstanding contribution to establishing the field as a major sub-discipline and has received several international awards.
Richard said: “I am delighted and humbled that my successful research career has been recognised with the prestigious honour of an Emeritus Professorship.
“As well as numerous individual research projects in Britain, Scandinavia and Canada, I have been privileged to undertake transport research not only with colleagues at Salford, but also at other UK Universities and abroad in Denmark.”
Richard was a member of the Salford-led UK’s Sustainable Urban Regeneration research team which received a £2.4million research grant from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council.
As well as editing three high profile text books in the subject area, he was also the founder of the Journal of Transport Geography, serving as Editor-in-chief from 1993 to 2012.
He also chairs the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Transport and Geography and is also a former Mayor of Oldham and an OMBC councillor.
Announcing the honours, Professor Helen Marshall, Acting Vice-Chancellor at Salford University, said: “I warmly congratulate each one of them for achieving these well-deserved promotions.”
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