Gill Valentine

Gill Valentine is a geographer, currently Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of social sciences at the University of Sheffield. Prior to Sheffield, she was head of Geography at the University of Leeds.

Valentine is a specialist in social geography, with her key areas of research covering social identities and belonging; childhood, parenting and family life; and urban cultures and consumption. Her research in particular has focused on geographies of childhood, on alcohol-consumption and youth culture and on women's geographies. A co-founder of the journal Social & Cultural Geography and co-edtior of former co-editor of Gender, Place and Culture, she has made significant contributions to feminist geography.

She is a former winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award, and was awarded the 2015 Murchison Award by the Royal Geographical Society for "for publications relating to the geography of difference, equality and diversity" She's also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Notable Publications

Her following publications have over 500 indexed citations in Google Scholar:

• 1989 The geography of women's fear Area 12(1)pp. 385–390
• 1995. Mapping desire: Geographies of sexualities Psychology Press (with David Bell)
• 1997. Consuming geographies: we are where we eat Psychology Press (with David Bell)
• 2005 Cool places: Geographies of youth cultures Routledge