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Kath Browne

Kath Browne

Infectious diseases department, National Medical Center "La Raza", IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico

 
Biography

which emerged from research (Count Me In Too) that examined Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Lives in Brighton & Hove. This was a Community University Partnership project (with Spectrum) that began in 2005 and in 2010 won a Research Innovation Award for the impact it has had. Co-authored  with Sally Munt and Andrew Yip Current research investigates resistances to LGBT equalities in the UK and Canada, with Catherine J. Nash (Brock University),funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Worked with Sally Munt and Andrew Yip on the AHRC project Queer Spiritual Spaces 2007-2010

Research Group Representative of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Research Committee. Member of the National Statistics Office Expert Research Group advising on the development of questions regarding sexual identity 2006-2008Winner of the 2007 RGS/IBG Gill Memorial Award (outstanding potential in geography) for contribution to Geographies of Sexualities.Chair of the Space, Sexualities and Queer Working group of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers 2006-2009

 
Research Interest

Social and Cultural Geographies: Geographies of Marginalisation and Exclusion, Geographies of Sexualities and Queer Geographies, Theories and Methodologies, Geographies of Gender, including Feminist Geographies and Methodologies, Lesbian Geographies: Everyday Lives and Non-Heterosexual Women/Lesbians, Michigan  Music Festival and LGBT Pride festivals, Women who are mistaken for men and the gendered construction of space.