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 Michael Batty FBA

Spatial Statistics, GIS and Cartography Urban Studies

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Professor Michael Goodchild FBA

The representation and analysis of phenomena distributed in space and time, especially the space of the Earth's surface; the application of geographic information systems to research in the social sciences and humanities.

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Professor Judith Carney FBA

Environment and society geography; gender, ecology and food systems in West Africa; African foods and slave agency in the historical geography of the Black Atlantic; agroecology and political ecology

Judith Carney FBA

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