Doctoral advisor Peter Cowan Main interests Geography | Name Linda McDowell | |
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Institutions Open UniversityUniversity of CambridgeLondon School of EconomicsUniversity College LondonSt John's College, Oxford Alma mater Bartlett School of Planning Principal ideas Economic geography of work Notable awards Fellow of the British AcademyBack AwardVictoria Medal People also search for Rosemary Pringle, Chris Hamnett, Allan Cochrane, Michael Ball, John Allen Books Gender - identity - and place, Working Lives: Gender, Working Bodies: Interactiv, Capital culture, Redundant Masculinities? | ||
Prof Linda McDowell, "Moving Stories: gender, migration and employment in post-war Britain"
Linda Margaret McDowell CBE (born 1949) FBA is a geographer, currently Professor of Geography at Oxford University and Vice-President of St John's College.
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- Prof Linda McDowell Moving Stories gender migration and employment in post war Britain
- Linda McDowell New Director of TRIs Center on Deaf Blindness
- Life
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Linda McDowell - New Director of TRI's Center on Deaf-Blindness
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. Supervised by Peter Cowan, she researched housing change in London. 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. 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.
She is an economic geographer, who describes herself as an ethnographer of work and employment. She wrote the first paper on feminism in the journal Society and Space, 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; Gender, Place and Identity, which offered a broader introduction to gender and geography; and Redundant Masculinities, which explored masculinity in the context of economic downturns - have been major contributions to feminist geography and geographies of gender. More recently, her research has explored labour and economic migration since 1945.
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. She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. McDowell has edited the journals Area and Antipode.
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.