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Linda McDowell
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) |
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| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge The Bartlett, University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Cowan |
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| Main interests | Geography |
| Notable ideas | Economic geography of work |
Linda Margaret McDowell CBE FBA FAcSS was born in 1949. She is a British geographer and a university professor. She studies how people work and get jobs. From 2004 to 2016, she was a Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford.
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Early Life and School
Linda McDowell studied for her PhD degree part-time. A PhD is a very high university degree. She studied at the Bartlett School of Planning. Before that, she earned a master's degree there.
Her research for her PhD was about changes in housing in London. Her supervisor, who guided her studies, was Peter Cowan.
Her Career in Geography
Before finishing her PhD, Linda McDowell taught at the Open University. This is a university that offers distance learning. Later, she went back to the University of Cambridge. She had studied there when she was an undergraduate student.
In 1999, she became a professor at the London School of Economics. After that, she moved to University College London. Then, in 2004, she joined the University of Oxford.
What She Studies
Linda McDowell is an economic geographer. This means she studies how money, jobs, and businesses are connected to places. She also calls herself an ethnographer of work. An ethnographer studies people and cultures. So, she looks closely at how people work and what their jobs are like.
She wrote the first paper about feminism in a journal called Society and Space. Feminism is about equal rights for all genders. Her three main books are about work and gender.
- Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City looked at how gender played a role in the City of London's financial services. This is where banks and other money businesses are.
- Gender, Place and Identity was an introduction to how gender and geography are connected.
- Redundant Masculinities explored what it means to be a man when jobs are lost. This was during times when the economy was not doing well.
These books have been very important for feminist geography. This field studies how gender affects our understanding of places. More recently, her research has focused on people moving for work since 1945.
Awards and Recognition
Linda McDowell has received many awards for her work. The Royal Geographical Society gave her the Back Award. They also gave her the Victoria Medal. These are important awards for geographers.
In 2008, she became a fellow of the British Academy. This is a group of leading experts in the humanities and social sciences. She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Linda McDowell has also been an editor for two journals: Area and Antipode.
In 2016, she was given a special honor. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). This was for her great contributions to geography and higher education.
Her Books and Papers
Linda McDowell has written many important books and articles. Here are some of them:
- (2016) Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945. This book shares stories from women who moved to the UK for work.
- (2013) Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007. This book looks at how gender, moving, and jobs changed in Britain.
- (2009) Working Bodies: Interactive service employment and workplace identities. This book explores jobs where people interact a lot, like in customer service.
- (2005) Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant 'volunteer' workers. This book tells the stories of Latvian workers who came to the UK.
- (2003) Redundant Masculinities? Employment change and white working class youth. This book explores how job changes affected young working-class men.
- (1999) Gender, Identity and Place.
- (1997) Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City of London.
- (1991). Life without father and Ford: The new gender order of post-Fordism. This article was published in a journal.
- (1991). Multiple voices: Speaking from inside and outside the project. This article was also published in a journal.
