Nina Laurie

Nina Laurie is a British geographer and academic. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Geography and Development at the University of St Andrews.

Career Laurie graduated from Newcastle University with a BA and from McGill University in Canada with an MA before she carried out doctoral studies at University College London; her PhD was awarded in 1995 for her thesis "Negotiating gender: women and emergency employment in Peru". She joined the faculty at Newcastle University in 1992 as a lecturer and in 2002 was promoted to a senior lectureship. She was appointed Professor of Development and the Environment in 2005. Laurie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2021.

She was awarded the Busk Medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 2020.

Publications

(Co-authored with Robert Andolina and Sarah A. Radcliffe) Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2009). (Edited with Liz Bondi) Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation (John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (Co-authored with Claire Dwyer, Sarah L. Holloway and Fiona M. Smith) Geographies of New Femininities (Routledge, 1999).