Pro-Vice-Chancellors
Professor Nigel South BA, MA, PhD ,
FRSA
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Partnerships)
Faculty of Law and Management
.JPG)
Profile
At a glance...
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Partnerships) responsible
for Faculty of Law and Management.
- Previous roles at the University of Essex include
Director of the Health and Social Services Institute, Head
of the Department of Health and Human Sciences and Director
of Health Partnerships.
- Research Sociologist at the Institute for the Study of
Drug Dependence (now Drugscope) from 1981 to 1990.
- Completed PhD at the University of Middlesex
- Studied for BA and MA at the University of Essex.
Biography
Professor Nigel South is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Partnerships)
responsible for Faculty of Law and Management.
He was a student in the Sociology Department at Essex in the 1970s, he
then studied for a PhD in the field of criminology at Middlesex.
Professor South has taught at universities in London and New York and
between 1981 and 1990 worked as a Research Sociologist at the Institute for
the Study of Drug Dependence (now Drugscope) London, before returning to the
Department of Sociology at the University of Essex in 1990.
Research interests include: the environment and related health and crime
issues (green criminology); illegal and legal drugs, use and markets; crime,
inequalities and citizenship; theoretical and comparative criminology; and
public health.
More information:
Professor South's departmental web page - includes full details of on
his research and publications.