School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

SHORT CV

Present Position

• Professor of Human Geography

Previous Posts

• Jan. 2005 – present : University of Leeds, Chair
• Aug. 1994 – Dec.2004 : University of Sheffield, Lecturer (Promoted to Senior Lecturer (1998), Awarded a Personal Chair (1999))
• Sept. 1992 - July 1994 : University of Manchester, Lecturer
• Dec. 1991 - July 1992 : University of Reading, ESRC Research Fellow
• Sept. 1990 - Dec. 1991 : BBC Wales, Researcher/Producer
• Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1990 : Haymarket Publishing, Trainee Journalist

Qualifications & Education

• Oct. 1983 - June 1986 : University of Durham, BA (Hon.) Geography, First Class
• Oct. 1986 - Sept. 1989 : University of Reading, PhD completed within 3 years

Other Details

Awards & Honours

• Philip Leverhulme Prize: '…designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars of proven achievement'
• Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Gill Memorial Award: for contributions to Geography and genderiety

Other Positions

• Adviser to Equality and Human Rights Commission
• Trustee of the Drinkaware Trust
• Member of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Programme Advisory Group
• Member of the Philip Leverhulme Prize assessment panel of the Leverhulme Trust
• Panel assessor for the ESRC’s ‘Follow-on award’ research grant scheme
  Commissioned by ESRC to evaluate the Cultures of Consumption Research Programme
• Commissioning Editor for the Routledge Key Ideas book series
• Member of the editorial boards of: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Environment & Planning A, Children’s Geographies, Geography Compass
• University of Leeds Professorial Promotions Committee
• RAE2008 Unit of Assessment co-ordinator, Geography & Environmental Studies
• School of Geography Faculty Representative: ESSL Faculty Management Board
• Co-director and Member of Families Lifecourse and Generations Research Group (FLaG)
• Member of Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS)

Previous Positions

• Co-founder and co-editor of Social & Cultural Geography (2000-2008)
• Co-editor of Gender Place and Culture (1999-2004)
• Commissioning Editor for the Routledge Critical Geographies book series
• Editorial boards of: Ethics, Place & Environment, Sexualities, and Childhood
• Convenor of School of Geography, University of Leeds Performance Review

International Invitations

I have held prestigious international visiting fellowships at University of Sydney, Australia (2008) and University of Otago, New Zealand (2001). I have also undertaken invited short visits to 10 international universities: Universities of Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, San Diego State all USA; Queen’s University Canada; Gronigen University; Netherlands; Norway University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway; Universitat Bern, Switzerland; the National Taiwan Normal University and Hualian University, both Taiwan.
I have given 11 keynote addresses at international conferences/symposiums.