Rob Kitchin
Robert Michael Kitchin is a British geographer and academic. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Human Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.Education and career
Kitchin graduated from Lancaster University in 1991 with a geography BSc. The following year, he completed an MSc in geographical information systems at the University of Leicester and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by the University of Wales, Swansea, for his thesis "Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge". From 1995 to 1996, he was a lecturer at Swansea, and was then a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast. In 1998, he was appointed a lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and was promoted to a senior lecturership in 2001. He was then appointed Professor of Human Geography in 2005. Between 2002 and 2013, he was also Director of NUI Maynooth's National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.Honours
In 2013, Kitchin received the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal. In 2015, he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.Publications
- Cyberspace: The World in the Wires.
- Conducting Research in Human Geography: Theory, Methodology and Practice.
- Disability, Space and Society. Changing Geography Series.
- Mapping Cyberspace.
- The Cognition of Geographic Space.
- Atlas of Cyberspace..
- Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography.
- The Academic’s Guide to Publishing.
- The Atlas of the Island of Ireland.
- Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life.
- A Dictionary of Human Geography.
- The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences.
