Rob Kitchin#
| Membership Number: | 4896 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4458-7299 |
| Twitter: | @robkitchin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Department of Geography and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- 1996 - 1998 School of Geosciences, Queen’s University of Belfast
- 1995 - 1996 Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea
Fields of Scholarship
- Smart cities
- Software studies
- Urban geography
- Digital geography
- Cartography
- Spatial media
- Social policy
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Inaugural winner of the Maynooth University Research Achievement Award (all faculties)
- 2018 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Achievement Award, Maynooth University
- 2015 Media Achievement Award, Association of American Geographers
- 2015 Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2015 Ireland E-government Award for Digital Repository of Ireland, 3 awards, Overall Winner, Open Source, and Promoting Ireland Overseas
- 2014 Digital Geography Award for AIRO, Eircom Spider Awards
- 2014 Special recognition award for outstanding contribution to Geography, Geographical Society of Ireland
- 2013 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for the Social Sciences for outstanding contributions to the social sciences
- 2013 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, The Programmable City
- 2012 Cantemir Prize from the Berendel Foundation for 'The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation'.
- 2011 Meridian Book Award for the outstanding book in the discipline in that year from the Association of American Geographers for 'Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life'
