Claire Dwyer

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Claire Dwyer
Born
Claire Lucy Dwyer

1964 (age 59–60)
Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England
Died(2019-07-14)14 July 2019
Ealing, London, England
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Nottingham (PGCE)
Syracuse University (MA)
University College London (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman geography
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisConstruction and contestations of Islam : questions of identity for young British Muslim women (1997)
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/geography/claire-dwyer

Claire Lucy Dwyer (1964 – 14 July 2019) was a British academic, geographer[1] and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019.

Early life and education

Dwyer was born in

Muslim schools in the United Kingdom.[3] She then carried out her doctoral research at University College London;[4] supervised by Peter Jackson and Jacquie Burgess,[2] her PhD was awarded in 1997 for her thesis on the construction and contestations of Islam.[5]

Career and research

Dwyer was a social geographer with research interests in "the intersections of migration and multiculturalism and geographies of religion and ethnicity".[6] She was also interested in gender and feminism.[2] Dwyer was appointed to a full lectureship in geography in 1997 and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2007. She was made Reader in Human Geography in 2014 and promoted to Professor in Geography in 2018.[4] She was one of the first women to become a Professor of Human Geography in the United Kingdom. She was also co-director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL from 2010[6] and in that capacity was involved in the establishment of the global migration Master of Science programme.[2]

Publications

Her publications include;

  • Geographies of New Femininities [7]
  • Qualitative Methodologies for Geographies: Issues and Debates [8]
  • Transnational Spaces [9]
  • New Geographies of Race and Racism [10]
  • Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 4: Identities and Subjectivities [11]

Personal life

Dwyer married Paul Farmer, the

CEO of Mind, in 1994.[3] Together they had two children, Ben and Thomas.[3] She worked to bring together suburban faith communities, and staged exhibitions as part of the Making Suburban Faith project. These occurred in Gunnersbury Park Museum and at Somerset House.[3] After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018, Dwyer died at a hospice in Ealing on 14 July 2019.[2]

References

  1. ^ Claire Dwyer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d e "Claire Dwyer (1964–2019)". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Claire Dwyer: Research Profile". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
  5. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.362824
    .
  6. ^ a b "Claire Dwyer: Academic Staff". geog.ucl.ac.uk. University College London. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  7. OCLC 42031118
    .
  8. ^ (Edited with Melanie Limb) Arnold, 2001[ISBN missing]
  9. ^ Routledge, 2004 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Caroline Bressey)
  10. ^ Ashgate, 2008 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Peter Jackson and Philip Crang)
  11. ^ Springer, 2016 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Nancy Worth)
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