Rachel Pain is Professor of Human Geography at

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since 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2018.

In 2022, she is conference chair of the

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with the Institute of British Geographers annual conference. She previously served as Deputy Head of Department of Geography at

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, and was also the Co-Founder/Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and the Participatory Research Hub. Per

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, Pain has a ''h''-index of 42.

Research

Pain is a

social geographer Social geography is the branch of human geography that is interested in the relationships between society and space, and is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena ...

whose work draws upon

feminist geography Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space. Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members ...

and

participatory action research Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to action research emphasizing participation and action by members of communities affected by that research. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following ...

. She has published widely on issues of violence, community safety, trauma and fear, with specific attention being given to issues of gender-based violence. in 2019, she received the ''Urban Studies'' Best Article for 2019 award for her article "Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession", and In 2020, she presented the Distinguished Jan Monk lecture.

Awards

* 2022 IGU Distinguished Practice Award * 2022 Jan Monk Service Award * 2019 ''

Urban Studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. The core theoretica ...

'' Best Paper Award * 2018 Fellow of the

* 2009 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (for ‘Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life’, with Susan Smith) * 2008

Gill Memorial Award (for contributions to social geography and participatory research) * 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Key publications

* Newcastle Social Geographies Collective (2020) ''Social Geographies: An Introduction.'' London: Rowman & Littlefield. * Smith S J, Pain R, Marston S, Jones J P (2010) ''Handbook of Social Geographies.'' London: Sage * Pain R and Smith S J (2008) ''Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life.'' Aldershot: Ashgate * Kindon S, Pain R and Kesby M (2007) ''Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods:'' ''Connecting People, Participation and Place.'' London: Routledge * Pain R, Barke M, Gough J, Fuller D, MacFarlane R, Mowl G (2001) ''Introducing Social Geographies.'' Arnold, London

References

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