Harriet Hawkins

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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

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]

Career

Hawkins' research is focused on the advancement of the geo-humanities, a field that sits at the intersection of geographical scholarship with arts and humanities scholarship and practice. Empirically, she explores the geographies of art works and art worlds.[11]

She was educated at the

Stephen Daniels. After leaving Nottingham, she held AHRC Research Fellowships at the University of Exeter and Aberystwyth University, and was a lecturer at the University of Bristol, before arriving at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2012. She was promoted to professor in 2016.[12]

At

Veronica Della Dora. The centre connects arts and humanities scholars and practitioners, geographers and the creative and cultural sectors. It encourages work with an arts and humanities perspective on issues that have a strong geographical resonance, such as space, place, landscape, and environment. Its over 50 members include: Felix Driver, Robert Hampson, Julian Johnson, and Jo Shapcott.[13][14]

She serves as the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership which awards 60 doctoral studentships per year, across nine academic institutions in London and the South East of England, in partnership with organisations such as Historic Royal Palaces, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the National Theatre and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[15][16]

She is also managing editor of the journal

United Kingdom Research and Innovation Future Leader Fellowships Peer Review College.[19] She was appointed member of the Geography and Environmental Studies expert sub-panel for the 2021 UK Research Excellence Framework assessment.[5]

She has delivered over 60 invited lectures, keynotes and plenaries in 16 countries, and examined over 30 doctoral theses in nine countries.[20] In April 2019, Hawkins delivered the Cultural Geographies Annual Lecture, titled Going Underground: Creating Subterranean Imaginations, at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.[21] In July 2020, she will be a plenary speaker at The Institute of Australian Geographers annual conference.[22]

In December 2019, it was announced that Hawkins was one of 301 researchers, across all disciplines and from 24 countries, selected from 2,453 applicants for the award of a prestigious five-year European Research Council Consolidator Grant, as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, for her project Thinking Deep – Novel creative approaches to the underground, providing funding of up to €2 million.[23][24]

Honours and awards

Selected publications

Since 2009, Hawkins has achieved over 80 peer-reviewed outputs,[26] including:

Books

  • Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities (Routledge 2020),
    ISBN 0367558351
  • Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity (Editor with Laura Price) (Routledge 2018),
    ISBN 1315296918
  • Creativity (Routledge 2016),
    ISBN 1317604938
  • Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (Editor with Elizabeth Straughan) (Ashgate 2015),
    ISBN 1409448010
  • For Creative Geographies: Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds (Routledge 2013),
    ISBN 1135139679

Journal articles

References

  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. ^ a b c "REF assessment-phase panels confirmed". Research Excellence Framework 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Two prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes in Geography". The Cultural Capital Exchange. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Grant Listings". Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  8. ^ a b "2016 medals and awards recipients announced". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  9. ^ a b "ERC AWARDS OVER €600 MILLION TO EUROPE'S TOP RESEARCHERS". European Research Council. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  10. ^ a b "RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Committee". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Professor Harriet Hawkins". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  12. ^ a b c "Profile". Creative Geographies. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Centre for GeoHumanities". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  14. ^ "New centre hopes to put geography at the heart of the humanities". Times Higher Education Supplement. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  15. ^ "TECHNE Congress" (PDF). TECHNE. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  16. ^ "About Techne". Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Cultural Geographies". SAGE Publishing. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  18. ^ "Journal Homepage". GeoHumanities. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Future Leaders Fellowships: Round One Interview Panel Chairs". UKRI. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  20. ^ "Professor Harriet Hawkins". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  21. ^ a b "Cultural Geographies Annual Lecture". AAG Annual Meeting 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  22. ^ "The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2020". University of New England. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  23. ^ "ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 – List of Principal Investigators – Social Sciences and Humanities" (PDF). European Research Council. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  24. ^ "THINK DEEP". Harriet Hawkins. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  25. ^ "(2013 volume) Progress in Human Geography". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  26. ^ "Harriet Hawkins – Publications". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
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