Professor Trevor Barnes, UBC Department of Geography
Trevor Barnes, a professor in the Department of Geography, has been awarded the 2019 Founder’s Medal by the Royal Geographical Society.
The Royal Medal has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen and it is one of the highest honours of its kind in the world. The award recognizes extraordinary achievement in geographical research, fieldwork, teaching, policy, photography, and public engagement. It has been presented since the 1830s and past recipients include Sir David Attenborough, Professor Diana Liverman and Lindsey Hilsum.
“I am thrilled, slightly flabbergasted and rather humbled by the award especially given the stature of past recipients going back almost two centuries,” Barnes said.
Barnes is an economic geographer who has worked in the fields of abstract mathematical modelling, empirical case studies of natural resource regions, urban-based industrial analyses and the history, methods and philosophy of the discipline. He has been awarded the Society’s highest honour for sustained excellence and pioneering developments in the field of economic geography.
“Professor Barnes has been a pioneering figure in geography since the 1980s and instrumental in many critical developments in human geography,” said Baroness Lynda Chalker, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). “His books, articles and edited volumes, have forged a new style of economic geography, transformed the understanding of geography’s history in the twentieth century, and have led to changes in its methodology and philosophy. Professor Barnes is not only an outstanding geographer, he is also someone who nurtures the discipline. Trevor is a most worthy recipient of the Society’s highest recognition.”
The award will be presented on June 3 as part of the Society’s Annual General Meeting in London.
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