Martin Hess

Biography

1998 Dr. oec.publ. (Ph.D.), University of Munich, Germany (magna cum laude).

1992 Diploma (hons) in Economic and Social Geography, University of Munich, Germany.

1986-1992 Studies in Geography, Statistics, and Sociology at the Universities of Bamberg and Munich, Germany.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester and first joined the Department as a Research Fellow from 2000 until 2003, before returning in 2004 to take up my current position. Following my undergraduate and graduate studies in Bamberg and Munich, I worked in the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Munich, Germany, where I also obtained my PhD. Having held a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Hong Kong in 2001-2002, I have spent three months in 2011 working as a Visiting Scholar at the International Labour Organization in Geneva.

Further information

At the University of Manchester

• Director of Geography Undergraduate Programmes (2008-2011)
• Coordinator, GPERG (2008-2011) 
• Chair, Geography Programme Committee (2008-2011)
• Member of the HEAR Steering Committee (2009- 2011)

Outside the University of Manchester

• Member of the ESRC Peer Review College (2015-)
• Board Member, Economic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (2011-2013)
• Treasurer, Economic Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (2007-2010)
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, critical perspectives on international business (2009-)
• Member of the International Editorial Board, Norwegian Journal of Geography (Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift) (2015-)

Professional memberships:

• Association of American Geographers, Washington DC.
• Association of German University Teachers in Geography, Bonn.
• International Geographical Union, Washington DC.
• Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, London (Fellow).
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Baltimore

Peer Review

Referee for:

• Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• Antipode
• Area
• British Journal of Industrial Relations
• Competition & Change
• Critical Perspectives on International Business
• Die Erde
• Economic Geography
• Environment & Planning
• Erdkunde
• European Urban and Regional Studies
• Geoforum
• Geographica Helvetica
• Geographische Zeitschrift
• Geography Compass
• Global Labour Journal
• Global Networks
• Growth & Change
• Industry & Innovation
• International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• International Migration Review
• International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research
• Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
• Journal of Economic Geography
• Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Journal of World Systems Research
• Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
• Progress in Human Geography
• Regional Studies
• Review of International Political Economy
• Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
• Social and Cultural Geography
• The Professional Geographer
• Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
• Town Planning Review
• Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
• Urban Geography
• Urban Studies
• Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftsgeographie
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• Book proposal reviewer for: Blackwell, Edward Elgar, Routledge, and Sage Publishers
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• Research Proposal reviewer for: ESRC (UK), NSF (USA), DFG (Germany) RGC (Hong Kong), SSHRC (Canada), NRC (Norway), CSF (Czech Republic)

Recent and forthcoming presentations

2015: Investigating Embeddedness: Qualitative Methods and Cross-Cultural Research. 2nd PhD Conference on the Production and Interpretation of Qualitative Data, Norwegian Researcher School in Geography, University of Bergen, Norway, March.

2015: Global Production Networks, Labour and Development. Annual Herbertson Memorial Lecture, Manchester Geographical Association, Manchester, UK, February.

2014: Invited Panelist, The Spatial and Historical Development of MNEs: International Business and Economic Geography Perspectives. 41st Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business, University of York, UK, April.

2013: Conceptualising Power in Global Production Networks. Workshop on Labour Relations and Power in Global Production Networks – Conceptual and Methodological Challenges, University of Kassel, Germany, July.

2013: Global Production Networks and Variegated Capitalism - (Self-)Regulating Labour in Cambodian Garment Factories. Politics, Economy and Space Research Group (PEAS) Seminar, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, February.
 

2012: Global Production Networks and Variegated Capitalism: (Self-)Regulating Labour in Cambodian Garment Factories. SASE 24th Annual Conference, MIT, Cambridge/Mass., USA, June.

2012: Global Production Networks and Territorial Development. Public Seminar, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March.

2011: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Global Production Networks. International Workshop on ‘Value Chains, Production Networks, and the Geographies of Development: Emerging Challenges and Future Agenda’, National University of Singapore, December 2011.

2011: Global Production Networks and Regional Development: A Cultural Political Economy. Economic Geography Discussion Forum, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 2011.

2011: Investigating the Archipelago Economy: Chains, Networks and the Study of Uneven Development. Public Guest Lecture, KU International Lecture Series, University of Eichstätt, Germany, May 2011.

2011: Investigating Alternative Biofuel Production in Indonesia: A Global Production Networks Approach. Keynote address to the JARAK Research Workshop, University of Leiden, Netherlands, March 2011.
 

2010: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Logistics. International Workshop on ‘Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks’, Agra, India, May.

2009: Globale Produktionsnetzwerke und Regionalentwicklung: Das Beispiel der Textilindustrie in Otavalo/Ecouador. Department of Geography Seminar, University of Osnabrück, Germany, November.

2009: Investigating the Archipelago Economy: Chains, Networks and Uneven Development. Launch event and Special Issue presentation of the Austrian Journal of Development Studies 2/2009, University of Vienna, Austria, June.