Background
Atkins, Peter Joseph was born on April 9, 1949 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Son of Joseph and Kathleen Gertrude Atkins.
Atkins, Peter Joseph was born on April 9, 1949 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Son of Joseph and Kathleen Gertrude Atkins.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1971. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1977.
Tutor University Leicester, England, 1974—1977, University Wales, Swansea, 1977—1980. Administrator and map curator University Durham, 1980—1984, lecturer, 1984—1988, senior lecturer, 1988—2001, reader geography, since 2001. President International Commission Research European Food Industry, 2004—2005.
Member scientific committee Anthropology of Food, France, since 2004.
Fellow: Royal Geography Society. Member: Economic History Society, Institute European Histoire de l'Alimentation (associate).
Married Elizabeth Mary Hunt, December 14, 1974. Children: Rowan Louise, Miranda Clare.