Rob Kitchin

British geographer and academic

Robert Michael Kitchin MRIA is an Irish and British^{[citation needed]} geographer and academic. In 2005 he was appointed professor of human geography at Maynooth University (formerly the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Early life and education

Robert Michael Kitchin^{[citation needed]} graduated from Lancaster University in the UK in 1991 with a geography BSc. The following year, he completed an MSc in geographical information systems at the University of Leicester and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by the University of Wales, Swansea,^[1] His thesis was on Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge.^[2]

Career

From 1995 to 1996, Kitchin was a lecturer at Swansea, and was then a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast (1996 to 1998). In 1998, he was appointed to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He became professor of human geography in 2005.^[1]

Between 2002 and 2013, he was also director of NUI Maynooth's National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis.^[3] He was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.^[4]

Contributions

Digital technologies, smart cities, data management and governance, geographical aspects of disability, urban and social geography.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

In 2013, Kitchin received the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal.^[3] In 2015, he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.^[5]

Publications

Kitchin, R. (1998). Cyberspace: The World in the Wires. Wiley.
Kitchin, R. & Tate N. (1999).Conducting Research in Human Geography: Theory, Methodology and Practice. Prentice Hall.
Kitchin, R. (2000.). Disability, Space and Society. Changing Geography Series. Geographical Association.
(Co-authored with Martin Dodge) Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000).
(Co-authored with Mark Blades) The Cognition of Geographic Space (I.B. Tauris, 2001).
(Co-authored with Martin Dodge) Atlas of Cyberspace. (Addison-Wesley, 2001).
(Co-authored with Phil Hubbard, Brendan Bartley and Duncan Fuller) Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography (Continuum, 2002).
(Co-authored with Duncan Fuller) The Academic’s Guide to Publishing (Sage, 2005).
Kitchin, R. & Thrift, N. (Co)Editor-in-Chief) 2005-, International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography Elsevier, 12 volumes
(Co-authored with Justin Gleeson, Brendan Bartley, John Driscoll, Ronan Foley, Stewart Fotheringham and Chris Lloyd) The Atlas of the Island of Ireland (AIRO/ICLRD, 2008).
Dodge, M., Kitchin, R. & Perkins, C. (Eds) (2009) Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. Routledge.
Kitchin, R. & Dodge, M. (2011). Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. MIT Press.
Dodge, M., Kitchin, R. & Perkins, C. (Eds) (2011). The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Wiley-Blackwell.
Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts, S. and Withers, C. (Eds) (2014). SAGE Handbook of Human Geography. Sage. 2 volumes
Castree, N., Kitchin, R. & Rogers, A. (2013). Oxford Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford University Press.
Kitchin, R. & Perng, S-Y. (2016) Code and the City. Routledge.
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. & Wilson, M. (Eds). (2017). Understanding Spatial Media. Sage.
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. & McArdle, G. (Eds) (2017) Data and the City. Routledge.
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (Eds) (2018) Digital Geographies. Sage.
Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. & Kitchin, R. (eds) (2018) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge.
Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. & Kitchin, R. (eds) (2019) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald.
Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. & Shaw, J. (eds) (2019). How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. OA
Kitchin, R. & Fraser, A. (2020) Slow Computing: How To Create More Balanced Digital Lives. Bristol University Press.
Kitchin, R. (2021). Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World. Bristol University Press.
Kitchin, R. (2024/2014).The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. Sage.
"Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society" (Polity Press, 2023).
Gilmartin, M., Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. & Roberts, S. (eds) (2024/2010/2004) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. 3rd edition. Sage.
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. & Leszczynski, A. (2024). Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods and Practice. Sage.

References

^ a b "Rob Kitchin: About Me". National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011.
^ "Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
^ a b "Prof Rob Kitchin", Maynooth University. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
^ "Kitchin, Rob M.", World Who's Who: Europa Biographical Reference (online ed., Routledge, 2019). Retrieved 22 July 2019.
^ "Rob Kitchin", Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

[:0-1] "Rob Kitchin: About Me". National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011.

[2] "Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 22 July 2019.

[:1-3] "Prof Rob Kitchin", Maynooth University. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

[4] "Kitchin, Rob M.", World Who's Who: Europa Biographical Reference (online ed., Routledge, 2019). Retrieved 22 July 2019.

[5] "Rob Kitchin", Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2019.