Rachel Pain

Rachel Pain is Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University since 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018.

She previously served as Deputy Head of Department of Geography at Durham University, and was also the Co-Founder/Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and the Participatory Research Hub. Per Scopus, Pain has a h-index of 42.^[1][2] In 2022, she was conference chair of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers annual conference.

Research

Pain is a social geographer whose work draws upon feminist geography and participatory action research. She has published widely on issues of violence, community safety, trauma and fear, with specific attention being given to issues of gender-based violence. in 2019, she received the Urban Studies Best Article for 2019 award for her article "Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession", and In 2020, she presented the Distinguished Jan Monk lecture.^[3]

Awards

• 2022 IGU Distinguished Practice Award ^[4]
• 2022 Jan Monk Service Award (https://www.aag.org/2022-aag-specialty-and-affinity-group-awards/))
• 2019 Urban Studies Best Paper Award^[5]
• 2018 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences^[6]
• 2009 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (for ‘Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life’, with Susan Smith)^[7]
• 2008 Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award (for contributions to social geography and participatory research)^[8]
• 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize^[9]

Key publications

• Newcastle Social Geographies Collective (2020) Social Geographies: An Introduction. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Smith S J, Pain R, Marston S, Jones J P (2010) Handbook of Social Geographies. London: Sage
• Pain R and Smith S J (2008) Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life. Aldershot: Ashgate
• Kindon S, Pain R and Kesby M (2007) Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods:  Connecting People, Participation and Place. London: Routledge
• Pain R, Barke M, Gough J, Fuller D, MacFarlane R, Mowl G (2001) Introducing Social Geographies. Arnold, London  

References

1. "Scopus preview - Pain, Rachel H. - Author details". Scopus. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
2. "Staff Profile - School of Geography, Politics and Sociology - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
3. "Jan Monk Lecture 2020: Rachel Pain". School of Geography, Development & Environment. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
4. Mike (2022-04-23). "IGU Awards announced". IGU Online. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
5. "Urban Studies Best Article 2019". Urban Studies. 57 (8): 1599. June 2020. doi:10.1177/0042098020924165. ISSN 0042-0980. S2CID 220635703.
6. Sciences, Academy of Social. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
7. "PAST WINNERS". Political Geography Specialty Group. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
8. "Medal recipients 1970-2021". Royal Geographical Society.
9. (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2018-05-13.