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.
Claire Dwyer | |
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| Born | Claire Lucy Dwyer 1964 (age 59–60) Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 14 July 2019 Ealing, London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) University of Nottingham (PGCE) Syracuse University (MA) University College London (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human geography |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Construction and contestations of Islam : questions of identity for young British Muslim women (1997) |
| Website | www |
Early life and education
editDwyer was born in Letchworth 1964[2] to Michael Dwyer and Brenda Jacques.[3] Her father was a research engineer and her mother was a teacher.[3] She became interested in social geography during her childhood in the garden city of Letchworth. Dwyer attended St Angela's Roman Catholic school in Stevenage.[3] She was an undergraduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first-class geography degree from the University of Oxford in 1987.[3] During her undergraduate degree she spent a year working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta.[3] Dwyer completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Nottingham, and taught at secondary schools in Warminster.[when?] She returned to academia and studied for a master's degree in critical feminism at Syracuse University.[3] Her Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1991 for a dissertation on state-funded 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
editDwyer 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
editHer publications include;
Personal life
editDwyer 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
edit- ^ Claire Dwyer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e "Claire Dwyer (1964–2019)". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Fowler, Alice (2 August 2019). "Claire Dwyer obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Claire Dwyer: Research Profile". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
- ^ Dwyer, Claire Lucy (1997). Construction and contestations of Islam : questions of identity for young British Muslim women. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 60148380. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.362824.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Laurie, Nina, ed. (1999). Geographies of new femininities. Harlow, England: Longman. ISBN 0582320240. OCLC 42031118.
- ^ (Edited with Melanie Limb) Arnold, 2001[ISBN missing]
- ^ Routledge, 2004 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Caroline Bressey)
- ^ Ashgate, 2008 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Peter Jackson and Philip Crang)
- ^ Springer, 2016 [ISBN missing] (Edited with Nancy Worth)