Professor Susan J Smith PBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Honours
- PBA
- Subjects
- Geography
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Professor Susan Smith became President of the British Academy in 2025. She is known for her contributions to social geography and for her collaborative interdisciplinary research on the links between housing, inequality, health and wellbeing. Her empirical work in Australia, the UK and the USA has been funded by research councils, public bodies and charitable trusts. For more details, you can view her profile on the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and Girton College, University of Cambridge.
Susan is a member of the Society of Authors, and of the Royal Geographical Society, who awarded her the Victoria Medal in 2014; she is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She has enjoyed a variety of visiting positions internationally, at the European University Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Australian National University (ANU), RMIT and Curtin Universities in Australia.
Current post
The British Academy President
2025 -
Girton College, University of Cambridge Honorary Emerita Professor of Social and Economic Geography
Girton College, University of Cambridge Life Fellow
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Mistress (Head) of Girton College
2009 - 2022
Durham University Professor of Geography and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Study
2004 - 2009
University of Edinburgh Ogilvie Professor of Geography
1990 - 2004
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