Sylvia Chant

Sylvia Hamilton Chant (24 December 1958 – 18 December 2019) was a British academic who was professor of Development Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was co-director of the MSc Urbanisation and Development Programme in the LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.

Background Chant was born in 1958 in Dundee. Her parents were June Dollis Mary (born McCartney) and Stuart Ralston Chant (1930–2013), virologist and plant pathologist. She left Scotland when she was a baby. She earned her BA at King's College, Cambridge and then her PhD at University College London in 1984 (Las Olvidadas: a study of women, housing and family structure in Queretaro, Mexico). Chant was a so that her father could research and lecture. She said that pride in her father's work with tropical agriculture, including the cassava mosaic virus influenced her career choice.

She was the editor of The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty : Concepts, Research, Policy (2010),

Awards Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (2011) Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (2016) Leverhulme major research fellowship (2003-2006) Adlbertska Guest Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Gothenburg (2013-2015)

Publications Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a Feminised Urban Future (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Routledge, 2016) (ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy (Elgar, 2010). Geographies of Development in the 21st Century (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Elgar, 2009) Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Elgar, 2007) Gender in Latin America (in association with Nikki Craske) (Latin America Bureau, 2003) Genero en Latinoamerica in Latin America (in association with Nikki Craske) (Publicaciones de la Casa Chata, 2007) Mainstreaming Men in Gender and Development (with Matthew Gutmann) (Oxfam, 2000) Three Generations, Two Genders, One World (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Zed, 1998) Women-headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World (Macmillan, 1997, reprinted 1999) Women of a Lesser Cost: Female Labour, Foreign Exchange and Philippine Development (with Cathy McIlwaine) (Pluto, 1995) (ed.) Gender and Migration in Developing Countries (Bellhaven, 1992) (ed.) Routledge Major Works on Gender, Poverty and Development (4 volumes) (with Gwendolyn Beetham (Routledge, 2015) Women and Survival in Mexican Cities (Manchester University Press, 1991) Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas (with Lynne Brydon) (Elgar, 1989, reprinted 1993) Community leadership and self-help housing (Peter Ward and Sylvia Chant) (Pergamon 1987) Gender, Urban Development and Housing (UNDP, 1996)