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Rob Kitchin

BSc(Lancaster 1991), MSc(Leicester 1992), PhD(Wales 1995)

Professor MU

Member PL&AElected in 2015

Rob Kitchin is a professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 32 academic books and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He is a ERC Advanced Investigator (2022-2027) for the project ‘Data Stories’. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (1e). He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

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