Tony Champion

Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, CURDS/GPS, Newcastle University, UK

Committee member of the RSA Northern Branch 1976-80, Chairman 1980-83.

Deputy Editor and Book Review Editor of the Regional Studies journal, 1979-84.

Member of the RSA Executive Committee 1981-86.

Northern Region Secretary to the RSA Inquiry into the Regional Problem in the UK, 1982-83.

Editor of the Regional Studies Association Newsletter 1983-86.

Regular contributor of papers to RSA conferences and to Regional Studies.

Contributed to the RSA/MHCLG initiative presenting in MHCLG’s Economic and Social Seminars series, summarised in this RSA blog https://www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/2025-blog-declining-residential-mobility/

Tony Champion is Emeritus Professor of Population Geography at Newcastle University. His research interests include migration and its role in counter-urbanization. He chaired the IBG Working Group on Migration in Britain, which led to Migration Processes and Patterns (Belhaven, 1992), and the IUSSP Working Group on Urbanization, which led to New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy (Ashgate, 2004). He is past President of the British Society for Population Studies. His most recent work is on HE-related migration and its effect on concentrating young talent in large cities. T Champion, A Green and K Kollydas.  The gainers and losers from the UK’s university-related migration, Population Space and Place DOI: 10.1002/psp.2757.

See: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/contact-us/people/profile/tonychampion.html