Gill Valentine
Gill Valentine is a geographer, currently Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of social sciences at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, she was head of Geography at the University of Leeds.[1]
Valentine is a specialist in social geography, with her key areas of research covering social identities and belonging; childhood, parenting and family life; and urban cultures and consumption.[2] Her research in particular has focused on geographies of childhood, on alcohol-consumption and youth culture and on women's geographies.[3] A co-founder of the journal Social & Cultural Geography and co-edtior of former co-editor of Gender, Place and Culture, she has made significant contributions to feminist geography.[4]
She is a former winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize[3] and the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award,[5] and was awarded the 2015 Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society for "for publications relating to the geography of difference, equality and diversity"[6] She's also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[7]
Notable Publications
Her following publications have over 500 indexed citations in Google Scholar:[8]
- 1989 The geography of women's fear Area 12(1)pp. 385–390
- 1995. Mapping desire: Geographies of sexualities Psychology Press (with David Bell)
- 1997. Consuming geographies: we are where we eat Psychology Press (with David Bell)
- 2005 Cool places: Geographies of youth cultures Routledge
References
- ↑ "University of Sheffield appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Social Science". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Pro-Vice-Chancellor honoured with top award". University of Sheffield. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- 1 2 "Professor Gill Valentine". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Gill Valentine". Sage Publications. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Full list of medals and awards recipients from 1970 - 2015" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) honours top geographers" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Gill Valentine". Google Scholar. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
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