Christopher Robert Hamnett (born 7 October 1946) is a British urban geographer. He is an emeritus professor in geography of King's College London, at which he taught from 1995 to 2014. He is currently a visiting professor at Renmin University of China.
Early life and career Hamnett was born on 7 October 1946 in Louth, Lincolnshire to William and Mary Hamnett. He completed a bachelor of science at the University of London in 1969 and subsequently a diploma in Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham.
He joined the Open University in 1970 as a research assistant and became a lecturer in 1974, during which he held various visiting positions at George Washington University, the Australian National University, Nuffield College, Oxford (as the Sir Norman Chester Senior Research Fellow) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He left the Open University to join King's College London in 1995, where he is a member of the Menzies Australia Institute.
He has contributed to The Guardian, the Financial Times and The Independent, amongst other publications. He has edited multiple journals, including Area. He has been elected fellows of both the Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of Arts and is a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award.
Hamnett is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on gentrification as well as social identity and wealth in the United Kingdom. In the field of gentrification studies he is one of the most highly published authors both in terms of journal articles and reference works. He has also written prominently on British housing policy, particularly housing reform.
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External links Chris Hamnett at King's College London