{"id":2972,"date":"2016-05-09T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T09:05:22","slug":"ou-geographer-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/arts-social-sciences\/society-politics\/ou-geographer-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"OU geographer earns Royal Geographical Society honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

A top award from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)<\/a> has been given to The Open University’s Professor of Geography and Migration, Parvati Raghuram in recognition of her\u00a0\u201coutstanding contribution to geography\u201d. She is among just 21 people worldwide named in their annual awards.<\/p>\n

Award\u00a0recognises migration and globalisation research<\/h2>\n

Professor Raghuram<\/a> has been awarded the Society\u2019s prestigious Murchison Award \u201cfor publications contributing to geographical understanding of mobility\u201d. \u00a0She will receive the award at a special ceremony next month\u00a0and said,\u00a0on receiving the award:<\/p>\n

At a time when migration is the topic of lives lived and lost, the need to think about migration spatially could not be greater. I would like to give huge thanks to my colleagues, family and friends and The Open University in providing the fertile atmosphere to do that thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Raghuram\u2019s research considers how people experience and negotiate globalisation; how these gendered workers move in sectors where the global \u201cknowledge\u201d is embedded such as in IT, medicine and education. Most recently her work has been in co-authoring an ongoing study about the numbers of women in the IT industry, drawing comparisons with the UK and India and looking at the impact of migration between the two countries.<\/p>\n

‘A great honour’<\/h2>\n

Professor Kevin Hetherington, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Academic Strategy, said he was delighted:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have worked with Parvati for many years and know how pleased she will be. This is a great honour for her and for The Open University and is deserved recognition of her work.\u00a0Parvati\u2019s research on migration is both topical and highly important given the challenges the world currently faces around this issue.<\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that the RGS should recognise work on one of the most important geographical questions of our time by one of the leading contributors to it.That now means that two of our professors in Geography have received this award since 2012 and shows recognition for the high standing in which Geographical research at the OU is held. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Gillian Rose<\/a> received the same award in 2012\u00a0for her work in feminist geography, visual methodologies and urban aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Crane, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), said:<\/p>\n

\u201cParvati\u2019s research has transformed our understanding of how the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world, and how people experience and negotiate globalisation. Recognised by her colleagues as an inspirational research leader, she provides a model of critical scholarship on issues of truly global significance. I couldn\u2019t think of a more worthy recipient of this year\u2019s Murchison Award.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A top award from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has been given to The Open University’s Professor of Geography and Migration, Parvati Raghuram in recognition of her\u00a0\u201coutstanding contribution to geography\u201d. She is among just 21 people worldwide named in their annual awards. Award\u00a0recognises migration and globalisation research Professor Raghuram has been awarded the Society\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[205,786,958,1129,1181,1435,1680,1904],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-politics","tag-award","tag-emigration","tag-geography","tag-immigration","tag-it","tag-migration","tag-parvati-raghuram","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}