Jane Wills

Jane Wills was educated at Wymondham College before studying geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[1] She gained a PhD at the Open University, supervised by Doreen Massey and John Allen.[2] She taught at the University of Cambridge before being appointed to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1993.[3] In 1998 she became a lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, later becoming Professor of Human Geography there.[2] In 2013 Wills won the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award.[4] In 2017 she became Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter.[5]

• (with Ron Martin and Peter Sunley) Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour, 1996
• (ed. with Roger Lee) Geographies of economies. London: Arnold, 1997
• (with Alison Blunt) Dissident geographies: an introduction to radical ideas and practice. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000
• (ed. with Peter Waterman) Place, space and the new labour internationalisms. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001
• Union futures: building networked trade unionism in the UK. London: Fabian Society, 2002
• (ed. with Angela Hale) Threads of labour: garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• (with Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May and Cathy McIlwaine) Global cities at work: new migrant divisions of labour. London: Pluto Press, 2010
• Locating localism: statecraft, citizenship and democracy. Bristol: Policy Press, 2016
• (ed. with Robert W Lake) The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.

• Jane Wills Interview