Harriet Hawkins

Harriet Hawkins
Hawkins at British Museum in 2019
Born1980 (age 4445)
NationalityBritish
AwardsPhilip Leverhulme Prize (2016)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
ThesisGeographies of Art and Rubbish (2006)
Doctoral advisorStephen Daniels
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral students
Main interests
  • Geohumanities
  • geographies of art works and arts worlds
  • aesthetics
  • creative geographies
Notable works
  • For Creative Geographies (2013)
  • Creativity (2016)
  • Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities (2020)
Websiteharriethawkins.com

Harriet Hawkins FRGS (born 1980) is a British cultural geographer. She is Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she was the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Geohumanities (with Veronica Della Dora),. As part of Research Excellence Framework 2021, she was a member of the Geography and Environmental Studies expert sub-panel. In 2016, she was winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award. In 2019, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant, as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. She was previously the Chair of the Royal Geographical Society Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.