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 Lily Kong FBA

From her disciplinary roots in Geography, Professor Lily Kong FBA has since come to embrace interdisciplinarity in her work. Her research has focused on urban transformations, and social and cultural change in Asian cities.

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Professor Gordon Clark FBA

Geography Economic Geography Europe USA, Canada and/or Mexico

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Professor Stephen Daniels FBA

The history of landscape representation, design and management; the landscape arts of eighteenth century Britain; the history of geographical knowledge and imagination

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