David Sadler (geographer)

David Sadler is a professor and a researcher of human geography at the University of Liverpool, England. In May 2010, he was appointed as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China.

Sadler was born in Nottingham. He gained his first degree, and a doctorate from Durham University, and has held academic posts at Durham, and the University of Wales, Lampeter, before becoming a professor at Liverpool in 2002.

His research interests include the Geographies of labour and trade union organisation, spatial dimensions of European Union policies, and the relationships between industrial change and regional development.