School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Professor Gill Valentine has an international reputation for theoretically informed empirical work that is methodologically innovative and has popular and policy impacts. Her research interests include social identities and belonging, children and parenting, consumption cultures (especially in relation to food, drink and gambling) and research methods. Gill has been awarded research grants and contracts from UK Research Councils, charities, Government Departments, and non-governmental organisations to a value of over £2 million.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Sexuality and Global Faith Networks; funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Family Life and alcohol consumption: a study of the transmission of drinking practices; funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Post-conflict identities
Practices and affiliations of Somali refugee children; funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• LSSI
• Citizenship and Belonging
• Urban Culture and Consumption

PUBLICATIONS

• Valentine, G., Sporton, D. and Nielsen, K. (2009) Identities and belonging: a study of Somali refugee and asylum seekers living in the UK and Denmark, Environment & Planning D: society & space, 27: 234-250.
• Valentine, G., Sporton, D. and Nielsen K-B (2008) Language use on the move: sites of encounter, identities and belonging. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33: 376-387.
• Valentine, G. (2008) Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter. Progress in Human Geography 32: 321-335.

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