Dean and Chief Executive
Professor Roger Kain, CBE, FBA, PhD, DLit, was appointed Dean and Chief Executive of SAS on 1 April 2010.
Roger is a graduate and fellow of University College London and was Montefiore Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter from 1991 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for eight years until he moved to take up his post here. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and appointed CBE in 2005.
The focus of Roger’s research is the history of maps and mapping for which he has obtained substantial funding, enabling employment of his principal collaborator, Dr Richard Oliver, continuously since 1987. Books published in the last 20 years include: Cadastral Maps in the Service of the State (University of Chicago Press, 1992 and winner of the Newberry Library Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize), The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge University Press, 1995, reprinted 2011, and winner of the Library Association’s McColvin Medal), Historical Atlas of South-West England (Exeter University Press, 1999), English Maps: a History (British Library, 2000), The Enclosure of Maps of England and Wales, 1585-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2004, reprinted 2011), and England's Landscape: The South West (English Heritage 2006).
Externally, Roger Kain has served as Secretary and Chair of the Institute of British Geographers Historical Geography Research Group and was Chair of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference in 2002, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Geography Section in 2004, and a member of the DfES Higher Education Research Forum. He was a member of the UUK and HEFCE/AHRC working groups on research assessment after 2008 and a founder-member of the Research Information Network Advisory Board. Roger has chaired the British Academy’s Human Geography and Social Anthropology Section, was founder chair of its Research Grants Committee, between 2002-10 was the Academy’s Treasurer and a Vice-President. He is currently a member of HEFCE's Research Committee, of the AHRC Council, and the British Academy Research Committee.
To contact Professor Kain, please contact his PA, Sarah Allan:
E: sarah.allan@sas.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)20 7862 8736
