Kirsten Simonsen

Kirsten Simonsen (born 1946) is a Danish geographer and sociologist, professor emerita and she consulted for the Danish Ministry of Environment for several years. Her research has concerned social and cultural geography. She was granted an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University. and graduated from the University of Copenhagen with her Bachelor's degree and PhD (1976). At Roskilde University she earned her habilitation degree (1993).

Professor Her first research fellowship was at the University of Copenhagen (1973–1978). She was named a professor (1995–1998) at the University of Oslo, Department of Human Geography. She began teaching at Roskilde University in 1996, Department of Geography and International Development Studies (since 2006, it has been called the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change). During that time (2006–2011), she was also a professor at the University of Tromsø (now called The Arctic University of Norway), Faculty of Social Science.

Selected publications Simonsen, Kirsten. "Urban space and everyday life: A personal theoretical trajectory within Nordic social and cultural geography." In Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography: Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions, pp. 253-271. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. Simonsen, Kirsten. “Encountering Racism in the (Post-) Welfare State: Danish Experiences.” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2015. doi:10.1111/GEOB.12076. Simonsen, Kirsten. "In quest of a new humanism: Embodiment, experience and phenomenology as critical geography." Progress in Human Geography 37, no. 1 (2013): 10-26. Simonsen, Kirsten. "Practice, spatiality and embodied emotions: An outline of a geography of practice." Human affairs 2 (2007): 168-181. Simonsen, Kirsten. "Differential spaces of critical geography." Geoforum 35, no. 5 (2004): 525-528. Simonsen, Kirsten. "On being 'in-between': social and cultural geography in Denmark." Social & Cultural Geography 4, no. 2 (2003): 255-267.