Harriet Hawkins

Harriet Hawkins
FRGS
Hawkins in 2019
Born1980 (age 43–44)
NationalityBritish
AwardsPhilip Leverhulme Prize (2016)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
ThesisGeographies of Art and Rubbish[1] (2006)
Doctoral advisorStephen Daniels
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral students
Main interests
  • Geo-humanities
  • geographies of art works and arts worlds
  • aesthetics
  • creative geographies
Notable works
  • For Creative Geographies (2013)
  • Creativity (2016)
  • Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities (2020)
Websiteharriethawkins.com

Harriet Hawkins FRGS (born 1980) is a British cultural geographer. She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Geo-Humanities (with Veronica Della Dora),[3] and the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.[4] As part of Research Excellence Framework 2021, she is a member of the Geography and Environmental Studies expert sub-panel.[5] In 2016, she was winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize[6][7] and the Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award.[8] In 2019, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant, as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.[9] She was previously the Chair of the Royal Geographical Society Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.[10]

  1. ^ Hawkins, Harriet (2006). Geographies of Art and Rubbish: An Approach to the Work of Richard Wentworth, Tomoko Takahashi and Michael Landy (PhD thesis). Nottingham, England: University of Nottingham.
  2. ^ "Ce qu'en dit le mentor, Harriet Hawkins". L'Orient Le Jour. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  3. ^ "People". Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Royal Holloway, University of London". Royal Holloway staff intranet. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  5. ^ "REF assessment-phase panels confirmed". Research Excellence Framework 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Two prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes in Geography". The Cultural Capital Exchange. 1 November 2016. Archived from the original on 11 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Grant Listings". Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  8. ^ "2016 medals and awards recipients announced". Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  9. ^ "ERC AWARDS OVER €600 MILLION TO EUROPE'S TOP RESEARCHERS". European Research Council. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  10. ^ "RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Committee". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 5 July 2019.