Jane Wills (born 1965) is a British geographer and academic. She is Professor of Geography at the

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. She was elected to the Fellowship of the

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in 2022, in recognition of her contributions to Political Geography.

Life

Jane Wills was educated at

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before studying geography at

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. She gained a PhD at the

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, supervised by Doreen Massey and John Allen.Jane Wills - The Conversation
''theconversation.com'' She taught at the

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before being appointed to a lectureship at the

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in 1993. In 1998 she became a lecturer in Geography at

Queen Mary University of London , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

, later becoming Professor of Human Geography there. In 2013 Wills won the

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. In 2017 she became Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. In 2022, she was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Works

* (with Ron Martin and Peter Sunley) ''Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour'', 1996 * (ed. with Roger Lee) ''Geographies of economies''. London: Arnold, 1997 * (with Alison Blunt) ''Dissident geographies: an introduction to radical ideas and practice''. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000 * (ed. with Peter Waterman) ''Place, space and the new labour internationalisms''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001 * ''Union futures: building networked trade unionism in the UK''. London: Fabian Society, 2002 * (ed. with Angela Hale) ''Threads of labour: garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. * (with Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May and Cathy McIlwaine) ''Global cities at work: new migrant divisions of labour''. London: Pluto Press, 2010 * ''Locating localism: statecraft, citizenship and democracy''. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016 * (ed. with Robert W Lake) ''The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry''. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.

References

External links

Jane Wills InterviewJane Wills, scholar.google.com
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