Jane Wills
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Jane Wills

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13 July 1965
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St Catharine's College, Cambridge
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Jane Wills (born 1965) 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

  • (with Ron Martin and Peter Sunley) Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour, 1996
  • (ed. with Roger Lee) Geographies of economies. London: Arnold, 1997
  • (with Alison Blunt) Dissident geographies: an introduction to radical ideas and practice. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000
  • (ed. with Peter Waterman) Place, space and the new labour internationalisms. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001
  • Union futures: building networked trade unionism in the UK. London: Fabian Society, 2002
  • (ed. with Angela Hale) Threads of labour: garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
  • (with Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May and Cathy McIlwaine) Global cities at work: new migrant divisions of labour. London: Pluto Press, 2010
  • Locating localism: statecraft, citizenship and democracy. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016