# Robyn Longhurst

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{{Short description|New Zealand geographer}}
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| workplaces        = [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato)
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
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| alma_mater        = [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato)
| thesis1_title     = Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
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| doctoral_advisor  = [Richard Bedford](/source/Richard_Bedford)<br>[Evelyn Stokes](/source/Evelyn_Stokes)<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/5644 |publisher=University of Waikato |date=1996 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Robyn |last=Longhurst}}</ref>
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| doctoral_students = [Lynda Johnston](/source/Lynda_Johnston)<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Body Tourism in Queered Streets: Geographies of gay pride parades |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9780 |publisher=University of Waikato |date=1998 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Lynda |last=Johnston}}</ref>
| notable_students  = [Angeline Greensill](/source/Angeline_Greensill)<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Inside the Resource Management Act: A Tainui Case Study |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/4922 |publisher=The University of Waikato |date=2010 |degree=Master's |language=en |first=Angeline Ngahina |last=Greensill}}</ref>
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| awards            = 2018 Elected as Fellow of Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand
2018 Awarded International Geographical Union Lauréat d’honneur
2012 Jan Monk Service Award by the Association of American Geographers
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'''Robyn Longhurst''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ}} is a New Zealand [human geography](/source/human_geography) [academician](/source/academician). In 2006 she was appointed full professor at the [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato).<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/robynl|title=Robyn Longhurst - Staff Profiles: University of Waikato|website=www.waikato.ac.nz}}</ref> In 2015 at Waikato she took up the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). In 2024 she took up the same role at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

==Academic career==

After a 1996 [PhD](/source/PhD) titled '' 'Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places' '' at the [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato),<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Longhurst |first=Robyn |year=1996 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places |publisher=Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato |hdl=10289/5644 |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/5644}}</ref> Longhurst joined the staff, rising to full professor.<ref name="bio"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://envisagemyfuture.com/mentors/robyn-longhurst/|title=Prof Robyn Longhurst - Envisage|website=envisagemyfuture.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/two-new-zealanders-to-be-honoured-by-the-international-geographical-union/|title=Two New Zealanders to be honoured by the International Geographical Union|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12240113|title=Drug dealers turn entrepreneurs in Waikato University course at Auckland women's prison|first=Simon Collins Education reporter, NZ Herald|last=simon.collins@nzherald.co.nz|newspaper=NZ Herald|date=14 June 2019|via=www.nzherald.co.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/210352-uow-giving-female-inmates-learning-opportunities.html|title=SunLive - UoW giving female inmates learning opportunities - The Bay's News First|website=www.sunlive.co.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/76937883/undefined|title=University of Waikato O-Week moves forward a week and has own beer|website=Stuff|date=16 February 2016}}</ref> Notable students include [Lynda Johnston](/source/Lynda_Johnston) and Angeline Greensill.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Johnston |first=Lynda |year=1998 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Body Tourism in Queered Streets: Geographies of gay pride parades |publisher=Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato |hdl=10289/9780 |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9780}}</ref>

In 2018 Longhurst was elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand](/source/Royal_Society_Te_Ap%C4%81rangi).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Centenary cohort of Fellows announced|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/centenary-cohort-of-fellows-announced/|access-date=2021-01-08|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
* Longhurst, Robyn. "Semi-structured interviews and focus groups." Key methods in geography 3 (2003): 143–156.
* Longhurst, Robyn. Bodies: Exploring fluid boundaries. Routledge, 2004.
* [Johnston, Lynda](/source/Johnston%2C_Lynda), and Robyn Longhurst. Space, place, and sex: Geographies of sexualities. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
* Longhurst, Robyn, Elsie Ho, and Lynda Johnston. "Using 'the body’as an 'instrument of research': kimch’i and pavlova." Area 40, no. 2 (2008): 208–217.
* Longhurst, Robyn. "VIEWPOINT The body and geography." Gender, Place & Culture 2, no. 1 (1995): 97–106.

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