Claire Dwyer

Claire Lucy Dwyer (24 December 1964 – 14 July 2019) was a British academic, geographer and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019.

Early life and education Dwyer was born in Letchworth on 24 December 1964 to Michael Dwyer and Brenda (nee Jacques). Her father was a research engineer and her mother was a teacher. supervised by Peter Jackson and Jacquie Burgess,

Career and research Dwyer was a social geographer with research interests in "the intersections of migration and multiculturalism and geographies of religion and ethnicity". She was also interested in gender and feminism. Qualitative Methodologies for Geographies: Issues and Debates Transnational Spaces New Geographies of Race and Racism Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 4: Identities and Subjectivities

Personal life Dwyer married Paul Farmer, the CEO of Mind, in 1994. Together they had two children, Ben and Thomas. 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.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018, Dwyer died at a hospice in Ealing on 14 July 2019.