Emeritus Professor Michael Taylor BSc PhD DLitt (QM 1957-63)

Michael is once more living in Australia, having returned in late 2015. His academic career has taken him around the world. After QMGS and the completion of a BSc and PhD at UCL, he spent 8 years at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, then 11 years in Canberra, mostly at The Australian National University.

Michael then moved to the University of Western Australia, in Perth. From there he moved to a Chair at the University of Portsmouth and finally to a Chair in Geography at the University of Birmingham.

On retirement he moved to north Norfolk but then back to Western Australia where his daughter and her family live. Michael now lives in Bunbury, south of Perth.