Linda McDowell
| Linda McDowell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 |
| Awards |
Fellow of the British Academy Back Award Victoria Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
Newnham College, Cambridge Bartlett School, UCL |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Cowan |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
University of Kent at Canterbury Institute of Community Studies Open University University of Cambridge London School of Economics University College London St John's College, Oxford |
| Main interests | Geography |
| Notable ideas | Economic geography of work |
Linda Margaret McDowell CBE (born 1949) FBA [1] is a geographer, currently Professor of Geography at Oxford University and Vice-President of St John's College.[2]
Life
McDowell studied for her PhD as a part-time student at the Bartlett School of Planning, where she had previously earned a master's degree.[1] Supervised by Peter Cowan, she researched housing change in London.[1] Prior to completing her PhD, she lectured at the Open University. She then returned to the University of Cambridge, where she had studied as an undergraduate.[1] She took a chair at London School of Economics in 1999, after which she moved first to University College London and then, in 2004, to the University of Oxford.[1]
She is an economic geographer, who describes herself as an ethnographer of work and employment.[3] She wrote the first paper on feminism in the journal Society and Space, [1] while her three books on work and gender - Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, which explored the role of gender in the City of London's financial services;[4] Gender, Place and Identity, which offered a broader introduction to gender and geography;[1] and Redundant Masculinities, which explored masculinity in the context of economic downturns [1] - have been major contributions to feminist geography and geographies of gender.[1] More recently, her research has explored labour and economic migration since 1945.[2]
McDowell's work has received numerous awards. From the Royal Geographical Society she has been awarded the Back Award and the Victoria Medal. In 2008, she became a fellow of the British Academy.[4] She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[5] McDowell has edited the journals Area and Antipode.[2]
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to geography and higher education.[6]
Selected publications
- (2016) Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945. Bloomsbury,ISBN 9781474224505.
- (2013) Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444339192.
- (2009) Working Bodies: Interactive service employment and workplace identities. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-5977-7.
- (2005) Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant 'volunteer' workers. UCL Press / Cavendish Publishing, London. ISBN 1844720209.
- (2003) Redundant Masculinities? Employment change and white working class youth. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-4051-0585-9.
- (1999) Gender, Identity and Place. Cambridge: Polity.
- (1997) Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City of London. Oxford: Blackwell
- (1991). Life without father and Ford: The new gender order of post-Fordism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 400-419
- (1991). Multiple voices: Speaking from inside and outside the project. Antipode 24, 56-72
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Jones, A (2009). Thrift, N; Kitichin, R, eds. Mcdowell, L. in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 511–513.
- 1 2 3 "Professor Linda McDowell". School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Professor Linda McDowell". St John's College, Oxford. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- 1 2 "McDowell, Linda". British Academy. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61450. p. N9. 30 December 2015.