Appointment and promotion in the academic labour market: a preliminary survey of British university departments of geography, 1933-1982.

The sociology of British university geography is as yet largely unknown. A brief sketch is provided here of those who have held posts in British university geography departments during the period 1933-1982. Particular attention is paid to where they obtained their first and higher degrees, where those who have obtained readerships and chairs were trained, production rates by department academic 'inbreeding' and sexual discrimination. -Authors