Dr Andrew Currah joined the School of Geography and the Environment in May 2006. He studied Geography at the University of Cambridge, before moving to the University of Southampton to complete a Masters, and then back to Cambridge to complete his Doctorate. Since 2001, Andrew has completed research at York University, University of Washington and most recently, the University of California at Los Angeles. See his personal web site for more details, http://www.andrewcurrah.com.

Andrew is a research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute and an analyst on Internet and Technology for Oxford Analytica. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington (2002) and University of California Los Angeles (2004). He has recently delivered invited presentations at the Annual Meeting of the AAG (at special sessions on the 'Globalization of Retailing', 2002, 2004, as well as 'Geographies of User-generated Innovation', 2007); an ESRC-sponsored conference, 'Putting E-Commerce in its Place', University of Nottingham (2004); and the Annenberg Centre for Communication, University of Southern California (2006).

Dr Currah is an academic reviewer for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, Geoforum, Global Media & Communication, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Urban Studies.

He was awarded Urban Geography Prize by the RGS-IBG in 2001 and the RGS-IBG PhD Economic Geography Prize in 2007.