Jane Wills
Jane Wills is a British geographer, Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter.Life
Jane Wills was educated at Wymondham College before studying geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She gained a PhD at the Open University, supervised by Doreen Massey and John Allen. She taught at the University of Cambridge before being appointed to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1993. In 1998 she became a lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, later becoming Professor of Human Geography there. In 2013 Wills won the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award. In 2017 she became Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter.Works
- Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour, 1996
- Geographies of economies. London: Arnold, 1997
- Dissident geographies: an introduction to radical ideas and practice. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000
- Place, space and the new labour internationalisms. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001
- Union futures: building networked trade unionism in the UK. London: Fabian Society, 2002
- Threads of labour: garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
- Global cities at work: new migrant divisions of labour. London: Pluto Press, 2010
- Locating localism: statecraft, citizenship and democracy. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016
- The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
