Jennifer Robinson#
| Membership Number: | 5815 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/jennifer-robinson |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7716-4770 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Permanent positions
- 2009 - present Professor of Human Geography, University College, London
- 1998 - 2009 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor in Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
- 1995 - 1998 Lecturer in Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 1990 - 1995 Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Natal (now, Kwazulu-Natal), Durban, South Africa
- Invited Visiting Positions
- 2011,01 - 2011, 06 Swiss Chair in Mobility Studies, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland
- 2009 - 2014 Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 2008,12 - 2009, 06 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Fields of Scholarship
- Global urban studies
- Urban theory
- Feminist geography
- Postcolonial geography
- Large-scale urban development
- South African tudies
- Political geography
- Comparative urbanism
- Urban governance
- Urban politics
Honours and Awards
- 2009, RGS-IBG Murchison Award for “the publication judged to contribute most to geographical knowledge in recent years [Ordinary Cities, 2006]]
- 2014 Output Assessor UK Research Excellence Framework Panel UOA17
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the Society of South African Geographers, on the occasion of the Centenary of the Society
- 2019 ERC Advanced Grant, Making African Urban
