Christopher Spencer is an environmental psychologist from the University of Sheffield, UK.  Undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Oxford University (the D Phil thesis being with Henri Tajfel in social psychology). Helped launch the Science University of Malaysia in Penang; which gave the opportunity to go into rainforest to pretend to be a field primatologist following gibbons and siamang.  One of the senior editorial team of the Journal of Environmental Psychology from its inception in 1980. Research within environmental psychology has mainly concentrated on the world of children: cognitive maps and real maps: aerial photographs; tactile maps for the young visually impaired person.  Most recently, the perceptions of city centres by 10-12 year old users of the centres' resources, and implications for wider participation in the urban planning process.

References:

The Child in the Physical Environment (with Mark Blades and Kim Morsley), Wiley, 1989

The child as citizen: experiences of British town centres (with Helen Woolley and Jessica Dunn).  Paper to appear in  Journal of Urban Design, 2000

Children describe their experiences of the city centre: a qualitative study of the fears and  concerns which may limit their full participation (with Helen Woolley and Jessica Dunn). Paper to appear in Landscape Research, 2000

Children and the city: a review of the recent environmental psychology literature.  Paper to appear in Child: care, health and development, 2000