Professor Bob Woods

Professor Bob Woods

John Rankin Professor of Geography, University of Liverpool

Year Elected: 2003

He is a leading researcher in the field of population studies, where he is concerned above all with spatial patterning of demo-graphic phenomena and the processes responsible for them in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is currently engaged in work on childhood mortality in relation to a wider set of debates to do with historic attitudes to children.