Ceri Peach

Guthlac Ceri Klaus Peach (26 October 1939 – 3 October 2018 ) was a geographer from Bridgend, Wales. He was an undergraduate (BA 1961), graduate student (DPhil, 1964), and lecturer at Merton College, Oxford before being appointed to a lectureship in geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford (known colloquially as St Catz) in 1965 at the age of 26. He held this post jointly with a lectureship at Keble College, Oxford and a Faculty Lectureship at the University of Oxford.

He was elected as a tutorial fellow (teaching fellow) in geography at St Catherine's in 1969

Retirement

On 22 September 2007 Ceri Peach retired from St Catherine’s College and became an emeritus fellow at the College. In the same year, he was nominated as "Ethnic Geography Distinguished Scholar of 2008" by the Association of American Geographers at their April meeting in Boston.

Publications

Selected publications include:

Urban Social Segregation (1975) The Caribbean in Europe, contrasting patterns of migration and settlement in Britain, France and the Netherlands (1991)

Selected co-authored, or co-edited, publications include:

Ethnic Segregation in Cities (with Vaughan Robinson, and Susan Smith) (1981) South Asians Overseas: Migration and Ethnicity (with Clarke, C., and S. Vertovec) (1990) Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. (with Clarke, C., and S. Vertovec) (1990) Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Migration, Minorities & Citizenship) (edited with Steven Vertovec) (1997) Global Japan: The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities (edited with Roger Goodman, Ayumi Takenaka, and Paul White)(2003)

Interest in rowing

Outside his research interests, Peach has maintained a keen interest in rowing:

Other notable rowers, who comprise part of the strong Olympic Games rowing tradition at St Catherine's, include Colin Smith (2003, Geography), Andrew Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography and the Environment) and Stephan Mølvig (2005, Geography and the Environment).

Other work He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1982-1987.