Dr Avril Maddrell
Senior Lecturer in Geography
Geography and Environmental Management
Contact details
Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83123
Room Number: 4Q12
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Qualifications
B.A.(hons),P.G.C.E.,D.Phil.
Teaching interests
Social & Cultural Geography
Research Policy and Practice (M level)
History of geographical thought and practice
Module Leader for:
Culture, Identity and Place
Migration, Nationality and Identity
Research interests
Key areas of research:
Gender and geographical thought
Mapping grief: space, place and bereavement
Charity shops, alternative consumption, volunteering and the Third Sector
Professional Interests/Memberships
Royal Geograpical Society with the institute of British Geographers.
Committee Member of Women & Geography Study Group and History & Philosophy of Geography Research Group.
Member Association of American Geographers.
Editorial Board member for Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
Referee for other peer reviewed journals such as Transcations of the Institute of British Geographers and Gender, Place and Culture.
Recent Research/Publications
A. Maddrell (2009) An Interview with Anne Buttimer, Gender, Place and Culture 16: 6A. Maddrell (2009) A place for grief and belief: the Witness Cairn at the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland, Social and Cultural Geography 10: 6 675-693(special edition on Geography and Religion).
A. Maddrell (2009) Complex Locations: Women’s geographical work in the UK 1850-1970, Royal Geographical Society / Blackwells-Wiley.
A. Maddrell (2009) Mapping changing shades of grief and consolation in the historic landscape of St. Patrick’s Isle, Isle of Man, in Davidson, Joyce, Bondi, Liz, Cameron, Laura and Smith, Mick (Eds.), Emotion, Place and Culture, Ashgate, Aldershot.
(2008) The 'Map Girls'. British women geographers' war work, shifting gender boundaries & reflections on the history of geography,Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33:1.
(2006) Revisiting the region:'ordinary'& 'exceptional' regions in the work of Hilda Ormsby 1917-1940,Environment & Planning A, 38:1739-1752.
(2002) with Sue Horne, Charity Shops,Retailing,Consumption & Society,Routledge,London.
A. Maddrell (in press, forthcoming 2010) History and Philosophy of Geography, in International Dictionary of Human Geography, (eds.) R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, Elsevier (10,000 word entry).
A. Maddrell (2007) Teaching a contextual and feminist history of geography through role play: Women’s membership of the Royal Geographical Society (1892-3) Journal of Geography in Higher Education 31: 393-412
A. Maddrell, (2006), Revisiting the region: ‘ordinary’ and ‘exceptional’ regions in the work of Hilda Ormsby 1917-1940, Environment and Planning A 38: 9 pp 1739 – 1752.
A. Maddrell, (2004) Charlotte Cameron; Violet Cressy-Marcks; Alice Garnett; Hilda Ormsby, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
A. Maddrell, (2004) Isabella Bird; Marion Newbigin; Mary Somerville; The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, Thoemmes Press, Bristol.
Conference Papers:
September 2007 Mapping grief. Spatialities of bereavement, Death, Dying and Disposal 8, University of Bath, Centre for Death and Society.
May 2007 Mapping Grief, invited funded speaker, Space and Faith Workshop, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
April 2007 Mapping grief at the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference.
April 2007 Problematizing the Dialogue between Geography of Religion/Belief and Emergent Paradigms and Theories, Panellist, AAG Annual Conference.
Public Lectures:
February 2009 Exploration, propagation and curation: Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark in Arabia, British Museum (Babylon series).
February 2009 ‘The Map Girls’. Women geographers war work 1939-45’, Royal Geographical Society.
