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
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/lmcdowell.html

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 Gillian Rose FBA

Cultural geography: contemporary visual culture, especially photography and digital visualisations; the cultural representation and everyday experiencing of cities; visual research methodologies

Professor Miles Ogborn FBA

Historical geography of trade & empire; seventeenth & eighteenth centuries; India; Caribbean; communication in speech, script & print

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods