British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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.