Robert Michael Kitchin is an Irish geographer and academic. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Human Geography at the

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Education and career

Kitchin graduated from

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

in 1991 with a geography

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. The following year, he completed an MSc in

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at the

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and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by the

University of Wales, Swansea Swansea University ( cy, Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. ...

,"Rob Kitchin: About Me"
''National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis''. Archived at the

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28 October 2011
for his

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"Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge". From 1995 to 1996, he was a

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at Swansea, and was then a lecturer at

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(1996 to 1998). In 1998, he was appointed a lecturer at the

, and was promoted to a senior lecturership in 2001. He was then appointed Professor of Human Geography in 2005. Between 2002 and 2013, he was also Director of NUI Maynooth's National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis."Prof Rob Kitchin"
''Maynooth University''. Retrieved 22 July 2019. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography The ''International Encyclopedia of Human Geography'' is a 2009 academic reference work covering human geography. The editors-in-chief are Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift and it contains a foreword by Mary Robinson. Controversy The development of ...

''.

Honours

In 2013, Kitchin received the

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. In 2015, he was elected a

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."Rob Kitchin"
''Royal Irish Academy''. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

Publications

* ''Cyberspace: The World in the Wires'' (John Wiley and Sons, 1998). * (Co-authored with Nick Tate) ''Conducting Research in Human Geography: Theory, Methodology and Practice'' (Prentice Hall. 1999). * ''Disability, Space and Society. Changing Geography Series'' (Geographical Association, 2000). * (Co-authored with Martin Dodge) ''Mapping Cyberspace'' (Routledge, 2000). * (Co-authored with Mark Blades) ''The Cognition of Geographic Space'' (I.B. Tauris, 2001). * (Co-authored with Martin Dodge) ''Atlas of Cyberspace''. (Addison-Wesley, 2001). * (Co-authored with

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, Brendan Bartley and Duncan Fuller) ''Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography'' (Continuum, 2002). * (Co-authored with Duncan Fuller) ''The Academic’s Guide to Publishing'' (Sage, 2005). * (Co-authored with Justin Gleeson, Brendan Bartley, John Driscoll, Ronan Foley, Stewart Fotheringham and

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and Alisdair Rogers) ''A Dictionary of Human Geography'' (Oxford University Press, 2013). * ''The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences'' (Sage, 2014).

References

British geographers Alumni of Lancaster University Alumni of the University of Leicester Alumni of Swansea University Academics of Swansea University Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academics of Maynooth University Members of the Royal Irish Academy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{UK-academic-stub