Dr David Hilling
Job title
Research Adviser and Visiting Lecturer in Maritime History
Department
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Qualifications
BSc, MSc, PhD
Dr David Hilling was a lecturer in Geography at the University of Ghana from 1961-66 and a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of London (Bedford College and Royal Holloway), until retirement in 1996. He has undertaken consultancy work on African port organisation and the cruise shipping market and destination/port lecturing on cruise ships (Western Mediterranean, Iberia, Atlantic Islands, Western Africa). During his career he has lectured at the Universities of Western Michigan and West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Dr Hilling is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is also UK vice president of the European River Sea Transport Union.
Research/scholarly interests
- Maritime transport technology and port development in developing countries and as a factor in evolving port systems and port redevelopment in advanced economies
- The role in port development of hinterland links and, in particular, inland waterway transport.
Selected publications
Books
Hilling, D. (1996) Transport and Developing Countries. London: Routledge.
Hilling, D. (1978) Barge Carrier Systems. Benn.
Hilling, D., and Mountjoy, A. (1987) Africa: Geography and Development. London: Hutchinson.
Hilling, D., and Hoyle, B.S. (eds.) (1984) Seaport Systems and Spatial Change. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hilling, D., and Hoyle, B.S. (eds.) (1970) Seaports and development in Tropical Africa. London: Macmillan.
Journal articles and book chapters
Hilling, D. (2005) Than changing spatial dimension in port relations. In: Starkey, D., and Morton, H.P. (eds.) Bridging Troubled Waters. Esjberg.
Hilling, D., and Traill, A. (1992) Short sea and coastal shipping. In: Gardiner, R. The Shipping Revolution. London: Conway, pp. 103–18.