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Sarah Holloway

b. 1970

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About Sarah Holloway

Born 1970. Sarah Holloway is an academic, human geographer, geographer and university teacher.

Sarah Louise Holloway, FAcSS, is a British geographer and academic. Since 2010, she has been Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough University.

Education and career Holloway carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield; her PhD was awarded in 1996 for her thesis "Space, place and geographies of childcare". In 1994, she was appointed to a lectureship at Loughborough University and was eventually promoted to Reader in Human Geography. In 2010, she was appointed Professor of Human Geography at Loughborough.

In 2013, Holloway was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Publications

(Co-authored with Nina Laurie, Claire Dwyer and Fiona M. Smith) Geographies of New Femininities (Longman, 1999). (Edited with Gill Valentine) Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning (Routledge, 2000). (Co-authored with Gill Valentine) Cyberkids: Children in the Information Age (Routledge, 2003). (Edited with Stephen P. Rice and Gill Valentine) Key Concepts in Geography (Sage, 2003). (Co-authored with Gill Valentine, Mark Jayne and Charlotte A. Knell) Drinking Places: Where People Drink and Why (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007). (Edited with Nick Clifford, Stephen P. Rice and Gill Valentine) Key Concepts in Human Geography (Sage, 2009). (Edited with Mark Jayne and Gill Valentine) Alcohol, Drinking and Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces (Ashgate, 2011).

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University of Sheffield
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Loughborough University

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Who is Sarah Holloway?

geographer

When was Sarah Holloway born?

Sarah Holloway was born on 5 May 1970.

What is Sarah Holloway's occupation?

Sarah Holloway is an academic, human geographer, geographer and university teacher.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sarah Holloway

· Wikidata: Q65782355

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