Chris Philo

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Chris Philo is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the University of Glasgow.

Philo graduated from the Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University and became a Research Fellow there. In 1989 he joined the Department of Geography at the University of Wales, Lampeter, holding that post for six years, until 1995. He then joined the University of Glasgow as a Professor, becoming head of the department in 2002.

Traditionally his interests have been in the geographies of mental health and mental health care provision. Later, he dabbled in the emerging, but ultimately unpopular, sub-discipline of animal geographies. A devotee of the work of Michel Foucault, he has co-edited numerous general anthologies of human geography. Most recently, he has examined, with Eric Laurier, cafe culture in Glasgow.