Robyn Longhurst is a New Zealand

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academician, and as of 2006 is a full professor at the

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Academic career

After a 1996

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titled '' 'Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places' '' at the

, Longhurst joined the staff, rising to full professor. In 2018 Longhurst was elected a

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Selected works

* Longhurst, Robyn. "Semi-structured interviews and focus groups." Key methods in geography 3 (2003): 143–156. * Longhurst, Robyn. Bodies: Exploring fluid boundaries. Routledge, 2004. * Johnston, Lynda, and Robyn Longhurst. Space, place, and sex: Geographies of sexualities. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. * Longhurst, Robyn, Elsie Ho, and Lynda Johnston. "Using 'the body’as an 'instrument of research': kimch’i and pavlova." Area 40, no. 2 (2008): 208–217. * Longhurst, Robyn. "VIEWPOINT The body and geography." Gender, Place & Culture 2, no. 1 (1995): 97–106.

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