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Emerita Professor Rachel Woodward

Emerita Professor

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6434
  • Address: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
    Henry Daysh Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background




Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Geography with Archaeology, University of Exeter

PhD in Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Previous Positions

  • Professor of Human Geography, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 缅北禁地, 2011-2025
  • Reader in Geography, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 缅北禁地, 2005-2011
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, 缅北禁地 2004-05
  • Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, 缅北禁地, 2001-2004
  • Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Economy, 缅北禁地, 1996-2000
  • Research Associate, Dept of Geography, 缅北禁地, 1994-1995
  • Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Public Order, Leicester University, 1992-1993
  • Research Assistant, Dept of Geography, Saint David's University College, University of Wales Lampeter, 1990-1992



Previously:

Co-editor of Journal of War and Cultures Studies ()

Associate editor, Critical Military Studies

Editorial Board member: Geopolitics

Editorial Board member: European Journal of International Security






Research

Research Interests

Military geographies, including military land use, military landscapes and post-military landscapes, military environmentalism, militarism and space/place, base conversion issues.

Military us of space for ballistic missile early warning and space situational awareness


Gender and identity, including military identities and gender and the armed forces


Military representation in photography and print media, and contemporary military memoirs.

Reserve armed forces, and University Armed Service Units


Current Work

Militarism and popular culture.

Representations of the military. 

The politics of civil-military relationships.

Military and post-military landscapes. 

Space observation and monitoring



Funding

AHRC Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK's ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station. With Dr Michael Mulvihill, Ms Chloe Barker and Dr K. Neil Jenkings. 2020-23.

Leverhulme Artist in Residence award with Paula Turner, 2017, see 

ESRC Keeping enough in Reserve: the employment of hybrid citizen-soldiers and the Future Reserves 2020 programme. With Dr Neil Jenkings (缅北禁地), Prof Tim Edmunds, Dr Paul Higate, Dr John Hockey (all University of Bristol). 2014-18

Leverhulme Artist-in Residence award with Michael Mulvihill, 2014-15.

British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grant, Gender and the British Armed Forces: Lessons from Afghanistan.  Dr Claire Duncanson (PI) University of Edinburgh. 2013-15. 

AHRC Caring for post-military futures: alternative development futures for former military sites in the UK. (2013)

Development Studies Association The Military as New Development Actors. With Uma Kothari (PI, Manchester), Matt Baillie Smith (Northumbria), Nina Laurie (缅北禁地). See:  

ESRC The value of the university armed service units. With Dr Alison Williams (PI) and Dr Neil Jenkings (2013-15). See:  

ESRC The social production of the contemporary British military memoir. Project with Dr Neil Jenkings (2009-2011). See:

ESRC Negotiating identity and representation in the mediated Armed Forces. With Dr Trish Winter (University of Sunderland) and Dr Neil Jenkings (缅北禁地). See:

ESRC (2001) Gendered bodies, personnel policies and the culture of the British Army. With Dr Trish Winter, University of Sunderland. 

Nuffield Foundation (1998) Rural development and military base conversion.

Teaching



Publications

  • Articles

    • Woodward R, Barker C, Cree ASJ, Mulvihill M, Jenkings KN, West H. . Critical Military Studies 2026, 12(1), 102-122.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Mulvihill M. . Space and Polity 2023, 27(2), 153-168.
    • Higate P, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Critical Military Studies 2021, 7(2), 173-191.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . Area 2020, 52(3), 505-513.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams A. . Political Geography 2017, 60, 203-212.
    • Merriman P, Peters K, Adey P, Cresswell T, Forsyth I, Woodward R. . Political Geography 2017, 56, 44-52.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ. . RUSI Journal 2016, 161(1), 32-39.
    • Edmunds T, Dawes A, Higate P, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Defence Studies 2016, 16(2), 118-136.
    • Duncanson CP, Woodward R. . Security Dialogue 2016, 47(1), 3-21.
    • Woodward R, Duncanson C. . Defence Studies 2016, 16(3), 205-228.
    • Siebold GL, Crabb T, Woodward R, King AC. . Armed Forces and Society 2016, 42(2), 449-462.
    • Kleinreesink LHE, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Journal of Political and Military Sociology 2015, 43, 1-26.
    • Rech MF, Bos D, Jenkings KN, Williams A, Woodward R. . Critical Military Studies 2015, 1(1), 47-60.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies 2014, 14(4), 338-350.
    • Woodward R. . Progress in Human Geography 2014, 38(1), 40-61.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Journal of War & Culture Studies 2014, 7(1), 5-17.
    • Jenkings KN, Megoran N, Woodward R, Bos D. . Area 2012, 44(3), 356-363.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Political Geography 2012, 31(8), 495-508.
    • Scully JL, Woodward R. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2012, 5(1), 59-72.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2012, 5(3), 349-369.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Williams AJ, Rech M, Murphy A, Bos D. . Sociology Compass 2011, 5(1), 37-51.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Sociology 2011, 45(2), 252-268.
    • Woodward R, Winter T, Jenkings KN. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2009, 2(2), 211-223.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Winter T. . Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2008, 9(3), Article 30.
    • Woodward R. . Theory & Event 2007, 10(2).
    • Woodward R, Winter P. . Gender, Work & Organization 2006, 13(1), 45-67.
    • Woodward R. . Progress in Human Geography 2005, 29(6), 718-740.
    • Woodward R, Winter P. . Armed Forces & Society 2004, 30(2), 279-301.
    • Woodward R. . Journal of Rural Studies 2001, 17(2), 201-217.
    • Woodward R. . Land Use Policy 2001, 18(2), 93-97.
    • Woodward R. . Rural Sociology 2000, 65(4), 640-657.
    • Woodward R. . Journal of Rural Studies 1999, 15(1), 17-33.
    • Woodward R. . Gender, Place and Culture 1998, 5(3), 277-300.
    • Woodward R. . Journal of Rural Studies 1996, 12(1), 55-67.

  • Authored Books

    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ. . London, UK: Ubiquity Press, 2015.
    • Woodward R, Winter T. . London: Routledge, 2007.
    • Woodward R. . Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

  • Book Chapters

    • Woodward R, Barker C, Jenkings KN, Mulvihill M. . In: Cree A, ed. Creative Methods in Military Studies. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . In: Ben-Ari E; Connelly V, ed. Contemporary Military Reserves: Between the Civilian and Military Worlds. London: Routledge, 2023, pp.146-164.
    • Woodward R, Cree ASJ. . In: Lees L; Demeritt D, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp.240–244.
    • Woodward R, Cree A. Military. In: L. Lees and D. Demerrit, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. In Preparation.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . In: E. Ben-Ari, V. Connolly, ed. Contemporary Military Reserves - Between the Civilian and Military Worlds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, pp.146-164.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Steinbrecher M; Biehl H; Elbe M, ed. Empirical Social Research in and on the Armed Forces : Comparative and National Perspectives. Potsdam, Germany: ZMSBw, 2022, pp.261-284.
    • Woodward R. . In: Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Place. London: Routledge, 2020, pp.377-388.
    • Castro JE. . In: Kobayashi, A, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London: Elsevier, 2020, pp.239-245.
    • Davoudi S. . In: Kobayashi A, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, 2020, pp.255-265.
    • Woodward R. . In: Audrey Kobayashi, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. New York: Elsevier, 2019.
    • Jenkings KN, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Woodward R. . In: Orie Swed and Thomas Crosbie, ed. The Sociology of Privatized Security. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.107-136.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Dawson G; Dover J; Hopkins S, ed. Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2017, pp.91-107.
    • Woodward R. . In: The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Oxford: John Wylie & Sons, 2017.
    • Woodward R, Duncanson C, Jenkings KN. . In: Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson, ed. The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.525-542.
    • Woodward R, Duncanson C. . In: Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson, ed. The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.1-20.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Williams,AJ; Jenkings,KN; Woodward,R.; Rech,MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.71-83.
    • Woodward R. . In: Castro, C; Carreiras, H; Frederic, S, ed. Researching the Military. London, UK: Routledge, 2016.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Walklate,S;McGarry,R, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War. London: Palgrave, 2016, pp.389-405.
    • Jenkings KN, Murphy A, Woodward R. . In: Williams, AJ; Woodward, R; Rech, MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.345-356.
    • Rech MF, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ, Woodward R. . In: Williams, AJ; Jenkings, KN; Woodward, R; Rech, MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.1-17.
    • MacKinnon D. . In: James D. Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.561-567.
    • Lord A, Tewdwr-Jones M. . In: James D. Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.129-133.
    • Outhwaite RW. . In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.625-629.
    • Hammersley R. . In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.486-490.
    • Woodward R. . In: Wright JD, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, Second Edition. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2015, pp.501-505.
    • Kleinreesink LHE, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Neovi M. Karakatsanis and Jonathan Swarts, ed. Political and Military Sociology: Political Attitudes, Perceptions and Culture: An Annual Review. Transaction Publishers, 2015, pp.1-26.
    • Lin W. . In: James D Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition). Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.619-624.
    • Morgan G. . In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015, pp.609-614.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P., Sheller, M, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. London, UK: Routledge, 2014, pp.358-366.
    • Woodward R. . In: Ian D. Rotherham and Christine Handley, ed. War and Peat. Sheffield, UK: Wildtrack Publishing, 2014, pp.45-56.
    • Woodward R. . In: Renaud Bellais and Josselin Droff, ed. The Evolving Boundaries of Defence: An Assessment of Recent Shifts in Defence Activities. Emerald Publishing UK, 2014, pp.141-155.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Gibson, S., Mollan, S, ed. Representations of Peace and Conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2012, pp.105-119.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: McSorely, K, ed. War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience. London, UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.152-164.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Kirsch, S., Flint, C, ed. Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.115-131.
    • Woodward R, Winter T, Jenkings KN. . In: Hall, K., Jones, K, ed. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture and Media. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011, pp.53-71.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Glumnz, C; Schneider, TF, ed. Wahrheitsmaschinen: Der Einfluss technischer Innovationen auf die Darstellung und das Bild des Krieges in den Medien und Künsten. Gottingen: V&R Press, 2010, pp.159-174.
    • Woodward R. . In: Pearson, C., Coates, P., Cole, T, ed. Militarized Landscapes: from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain. London, UK: Continuum, 2010, pp.21-38.
    • Woodward R, Winter R, Jenkings KN. . In: MacDonald, F., Hughes, R., Dodds, K, ed. Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture. London and New York: IB Tauris, 2010, pp.143-166.
    • Woodward R. . In: Thrift N. and Kitchen R, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London: Elsevier, 2009, pp.122-127.
    • Davoudi S. . In: R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, ed. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2009, pp.125-135.
    • Jenkings KN, Winter T, Woodward R. . In: Boll J, ed. War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008, pp.95-108.
    • Woodward R. . In: Ingrid Book and Carina Heden, ed. Military Landscapes. Bergen: Bergen Kunsthalle, 2008, pp.78-101.
    • Woodward R. . In: Cowan, D., Gilbert, E, ed. War, Citizenship, Territory. London: Routledge, 2008, pp.363-384.
    • Woodward R, Winter P. . In: Fish, R, ed. Cinematic Countrysides. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp.91-108.
    • Woodward R. . In: Bell, M.M., Campbell, H. and Finney, M, ed. Country boys: masculinity and rural life. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
    • Woodward R. . In: Goverde, H., Baylina, M. and de Haan, H, ed. Power and gender in European rural development. London: Ashgate, 2004.
    • Woodward R. . In: Higate, P.R, ed. Military masculinities: identity and the state. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003, pp.43-56.
    • Halfacree K, Woodward R. . In: Halfacree, K., Kovach, I. and Woodward, R, ed. Leadership and local power in European rural development. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, pp.59-90.
    • Woodward R. . In: Tomaney, J. and Ward, N, ed. A region in transition: North East England at the millennium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp.199-217.
    • Woodward R. . In: Elam, M, ed. Reconstructing the means of violence: defence restructuring and conversion. Luxembourg: Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development, 2001, pp.73-87.

  • Edited Books

    • Woodward R, ed. . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
    • Woodward R, Duncanson CP, ed. . London: Palgrave, 2017.
    • Williams AJ, Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Rech MF, ed. . London: Routledge, 2016.
    • Halfacree K, Kovách I, Woodward R, ed. . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

  • Editorial

    • Woodward R, Benwell MC, Jenkings KN, Natale E, Parr H. . Journal of War & Culture Studies 2022, 15(3), 261-265.

  • Review

    • Woodward R. . Journal of Rural Studies 2002, 18(1), 108-109.