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]

Research

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] Unusually for a human geogrqaphy, her work has received over 21,000 citations as of 2017.^[5]

Administration

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor of social sciences she has overall responsibility for this field, and has hired Heads of Departments and reallocated staff over the last few years.

Awards

• The Philip Leverhulme Prize^[3]
• TheRoyal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award,^[6]
• Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society for "for publications relating to the geography of difference, equality and diversity" (2015)^[7]
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.^[8]

Notable Publications

• 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

1. "University of Sheffield appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Social Science". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
2. "Pro-Vice-Chancellor honoured with top award". University of Sheffield. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
3. "Professor Gill Valentine". Sheffield University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
4. "Gill Valentine". Sage Publications. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
5. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=fp0c7AQAAAAJ&hl=en
6. "Full list of medals and awards recipients from 1970 - 2015" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
7. "Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) honours top geographers" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
8. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2015.