Nina Laurie

FRSE
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationNewcastle University
McGill University
Alma materUniversity College London
ThesisNegotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews

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.

Career

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

  • (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

  1. 1 2 "2015 Ron Lister Fellow: Professor Nina Laurie", University of Otago. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Prof Nina Laurie", University of St Andrews. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Stephen, Phyllis (29 March 2021). "New 2021 fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Edinburgh Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
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