Professor Linda McDowell FBA

Geographies of labour market change in the UK; gender divisions of labour; interactive work in the service sector; economic migration since 1945; memory and oral histories, especially of women migrants
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Geography

Current post

Senior Professorial Research Fellow, University of Oxford; Honorary Professor of Geography, University of Exeter

Past appointments

University of Exeter Honorary Professor of Geography

2017 -

University of Oxford Senior Professorial Research Fellow

2017 -

University of Oxford Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford

2004 - 2017

University College London

2000 - 2004

University of Cambridge

1992 - 1999

The Open University

1978 - 1992

University of Kent

1973 - 1976

Publications

Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City 1997

Redundant Masculinities? White working class youth and employment change 2003

Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant volunteer workers 2005

Working Bodies: interactive employment and workplace identities 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Francis B Nyamnjoh FBA

Francis Nyamnjoh is a scholar of African Studies and Social Anthropology, specialising in media and communication, mobility, identity, citizenship and the politics of belonging, through the lens of incompleteness and conviviality.

Francis Nyamnjoh FBA

Professor Haidy Geismar FBA

Material, Visual and Digital anthropology with a focus on museums and colonial collecting, intellectual and cultural property, cultures of digitization, and contemporary art practice in global context

Professir Haidy Geismar FBA

Professor Charles Withers FBA

Geography Scotland History of Geography Cultural Geography

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