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Jane Wills FBA (born 1965) is a British geographer and academic. She is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. She was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2022, in recognition of her contributions to Political Geography.

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Jane Wills was educated at Wymondham College before studying geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. [1] She gained a PhD at the Open University, supervised by Doreen Massey and John Allen. [2] She taught at the University of Cambridge before being appointed to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1993. [3] In 1998 she became a lecturer in geography at Queen Mary University of London, later becoming Professor of Human Geography there. [2] In 2013 Wills won the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award. [4] In 2017 she became Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. [5]

In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [6] [7]

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References

  1. Wymondham College Magazine 1983 www.wcremembered.co.uk
  2. 1 2 Jane Wills - The Conversation theconversation.com
  3. St Catharine's College Society, 1994, p.51, www.society.caths.cam.ac.uk
  4. 'Geographical connections: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards ceremony 2013', The Geographical Journal , Vol. 179, No. 3 (September 2013), PP.283-290.
  5. Professor Jane Wills geography.exeter.ac.uk
  6. "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  7. "Professor Jane Wills FBA".