About David Crouch

David Crouch is Professor Emeritus in Cultural Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Derby UK and Associate of the University of Nottingham UK., He has experience as Visiting Professor and research advisor at several European Universities and collaborative projects and engagement with a number of international and UK academic and other networks.

David makes many distinctive contributions to developing conceptual debates in cultural geography, in research, writing, teaching. His work ranges from the creative character of the encounters individuals have with space in everyday life to professional and popular art practice, and across landscape, leisure and tourism performance, nature, consumption and community gardens.

He is currently completing two texts: one, a wide-ranging, conceptual empirically evidenced research monograph, Flirting with Space: journeys and creativity. He has written many refereed journal articles and innovative academic texts and more popularly appealing books; edited and contributed to numerous research texts. His work is translated in four languages. He is on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and has led and contributed to many international conferences and research symposia.

David makes original and distinctive contribution to policy of a number of agencies of government and NGOs, with a special emphasis on policy-informing work using critical analysis on the use and value of space, regeneration, understanding the consumer as cultural individual. He is well-known for original contributions in the media that include television production and advisory roles.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

You can contact David via email at d.c.crouch@derby.ac.uk

David is also an exhibiting artist, whose work can be followed at http://www.davidcrouch-art.co.uk/