Gill Valentine
Gill Valentine is a geographer, currently Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of social sciences at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, she was head of Geography at the University of Leeds.[1]
Research
Valentine is a specialist in social geography, with her key areas of research covering social identities and belonging; childhood, parenting and family life; and urban cultures and consumption.[2] Her research in particular has focused on geographies of childhood, on alcohol-consumption and youth culture and on women's geographies.[3] A co-founder of the journal Social & Cultural Geography and co-edtior of former co-editor of Gender, Place and Culture, she has made significant contributions to feminist geography.[4] Unusually for a human geogrqaphy, her work has received over 21,000 citations as of 2017.[5]
Administration
As Pro-Vice-Chancellor of social sciences she has overall responsibility for this field, and has hired Heads of Departments and reallocated staff over the last few years.
Awards
- The Philip Leverhulme Prize[3]
- TheRoyal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award,[6]
- Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society for "for publications relating to the geography of difference, equality and diversity" (2015)[7]
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[8]
Notable Publications
- 1989 The geography of women's fear Area 12(1)pp. 385–390
- 1995. Mapping desire: Geographies of sexualities Psychology Press (with David Bell)
- 1997. Consuming geographies: we are where we eat Psychology Press (with David Bell)
- 2005 Cool places: Geographies of youth cultures Routledge
References
- ↑ "University of Sheffield appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Social Science". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Pro-Vice-Chancellor honoured with top award". University of Sheffield. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- 1 2 "Professor Gill Valentine". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Gill Valentine". Sage Publications. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=fp0c7AQAAAAJ&hl=en
- ↑ "Full list of medals and awards recipients from 1970 - 2015" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) honours top geographers" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2015.