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Claire Lucy Dwyer (1964 – 14 July 2019) was a British academic, geographer and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019.

Early life and education

Dwyer was born in Letchworth 1964 to Michael Dwyer and Brenda Jacques. Her father was a research engineer and her mother was a teacher. She became interested in social geography during her childhood in the garden city of Letchworth. Dwyer attended St Angela's Roman Catholic school in Stevenage. She was an undergraduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first-class geography degree from the University of Oxford in 1987. During her undergraduate degree she spent a year working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. Dwyer completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Nottingham, and taught at secondary schools in Warminster. She returned to academia and studied for a master's degree in critical feminism at Syracuse University. Her Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1991 for a dissertation on state-funded Muslim schools in the United Kingdom. She then carried out her doctoral research at University College London; supervised by Peter Jackson and Jacquie Burgess, her PhD was awarded in 1997 for her thesis on the construction and contestations of Islam.

Career and research

Dwyer was a social geographer with research interests in "the intersections of migration and multiculturalism and geographies of religion and ethnicity". She was also interested in gender and feminism. Dwyer was appointed to a full lectureship in geography in 1997 and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2007. She was made Reader in Human Geography in 2014 and promoted to Professor in Geography in 2018. She was one of the first women to become a Professor of Human Geography in the United Kingdom. She was also co-director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL from 2010 and in that capacity was involved in the establishment of the global migration Master of Science programme.

Publications

Her publications include;

• Geographies of New Femininities
• Qualitative Methodologies for Geographies: Issues and Debates
• Transnational Spaces
• New Geographies of Race and Racism
• Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 4: Identities and Subjectivities

Personal life

Dwyer married Paul Farmer, the CEO of Mind, in 1994. Together they had two children, Ben and Thomas. She worked to bring together suburban faith communities, and staged exhibitions as part of the Making Suburban Faith project. These occurred in Gunnersbury Park Museum and at Somerset House. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018, Dwyer died at a hospice in Ealing on 14 July 2019.

References

1. Claire Dwyer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
2. ^ "Claire Dwyer (1964–2019)". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
3. ^ Fowler, Alice (2 August 2019). "Claire Dwyer obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
4. ^ "Claire Dwyer: Research Profile". ucl.ac.uk. University College London.
5. Dwyer, Claire Lucy (1997). Construction and contestations of Islam : questions of identity for young British Muslim women. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 60148380. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.362824.
6. ^ "Claire Dwyer: Academic Staff". geog.ucl.ac.uk. University College London. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
7. Laurie, Nina, ed. (1999). Geographies of new femininities. Harlow, England: Longman. ISBN 0582320240. OCLC 42031118.
8. (Edited with Melanie Limb) Arnold, 2001
9. Routledge, 2004 (Edited with Caroline Bressey)
10. Ashgate, 2008 (Edited with Peter Jackson and Philip Crang)
11. Springer, 2016 (Edited with Nancy Worth)

• 1964 births
• 2019 deaths
• British geographers
• Social geographers
• Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
• Syracuse University alumni
• Alumni of University College London
• Academics of University College London