Nina Laurie FRSE is a British geographer and academic. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Geography and Development at the University of St Andrews.
Nina Laurie | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Newcastle University McGill University |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Thesis | Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Geography |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
Career edit
Laurie graduated from Newcastle University with a BA and from McGill University in Canada with an MA before she carried out doctoral studies at University College London;[1] her PhD was awarded in 1995 for her thesis "Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru".[2] She joined the faculty at Newcastle University in 1992 as a lecturer and in 2002 was promoted to a senior lectureship. She was appointed Professor of Development and the Environment in 2005.[1] In 2016, she left Newcastle to join the University of St Andrews as Professor of Geography and Development. Since 2017, she has also been an editor of Progress in Human Geography.[3] Laurie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2021.[4]
Publications edit
- (Co-authored with Robert Andolina and Sarah A. Radcliffe) Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2009).
- (Edited with Liz Bondi) Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation (John Wiley and Sons, 2012).
- (Co-authored with Claire Dwyer, Sarah L. Holloway and Fiona M. Smith) Geographies of New Femininities (Routledge, 1999).
References edit
- ^ a b "2015 Ron Lister Fellow: Professor Nina Laurie", University of Otago. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Prof Nina Laurie", University of St Andrews. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ Stephen, Phyllis (29 March 2021). "New 2021 fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Edinburgh Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2021.