INTERNATIONAL LEVEL SERVICE
April 2019 – March 2025. Co founder (with Prof. Beverley Mullings and Prof. Kate Parizeau) and Co-Chair, Affinity Group on Mental Health and the Academy, American Association of Geographers
April 2015 - 2018 Co-founder (with Prof. Beverley Mullings and Prof. Kate Parizeau) and Chair, Task Force on the Status of Mental Health in Geography, American Association of Geographers
Sept 2016 - Sept 2020 Steering Committee member, International Geographic Union, Gender and Geography Commission
Sept 2012 - June 2016 External Examiner, Undergraduate Degree, Department of Geography, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Jan - Dec 2012 International Benchmarking Review of UK Human Geography
The principal role of the International Panel was to assess the international standing and contribution of UK Human Geography, with reference to four principal areas: research quality, research capacity, research impact, and future development of the discipline. This high-profile review was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). A UK Steering Committee chaired by Dr Rita Gardner, Director of the RGS (with IBG), and made up of leading UK academics, research funders and users of Human Geography, oversaw the process. The International Panel comprised seven leading international experts chaired by Prof. David Ley (UBC, Canada). Candidates were suggested by the UK Steering Committee, based on their record as internationally renowned research leaders in Human Geography.
NATIONAL LEVEL SERVICE
2025 - 2027. Member, Royal Society of Canada, Selection Committee for Social Science members
2002 – 2003 Chair, Geography, Planning and Environmental Studies Committee, SSHRC, Canada
1999 – 2001
Geography Committee Member, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada
FOUNDATIONS
Jan 2019 - June 2026 Urban Studies Foundation Board, Trustee and Director
This board meets formally twice a year and allocates funding for urban scholars, and for seminar proposals and research awards. I have served as a member of the Governance Committee, the Seminar Committee, the Post Doctoral Research Fellowship Committee and the Pandemics and Cities Research Award, which I inititiated. I also initiated the EDI plan for USF. I have also served as Treasurer.
Nov 2018 – Dec 2025 Brussels Cente for Urban Studies, Advisory Board member
Nov 2018 – Oct 2025 Manchester Urban Institute, International Advisory Board member
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATIONS
February 2010 International expert, Ecological study in the Rupununi savannah, Guyana
November 2004 Curriculum and Assessment Policy branch, Ministry of Education, Ontario. Review of the Geography components of the drafts of proposed revisions to:
A. Ontario Curriculum, Canadian and World Studies, Grade 9, 1999;
B. Ontario Curriculum, Canadian and World Studies, Grades 11 and 12, 2000;
C. Validation of the Grades 11 and 12 University and University / College preparation geography courses in the draft Grades 11 and 12 curriculum documents
Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 Consultant for Red Thread. Funded by IADB
August 1991 Editing Consultant for a book by Dr. Caroline Moser
July 1986 - Oct 1986 Co evaluator of a British Aid Agency's (Catholic Institute of International Relations) programme in Zimbabwe
Oct 1985 - April 1986 Editing Consultant, Working Paper Series: "Planning with Women for Urban Development" for the Development Planning Unit, London University
JURIES
*I have assessed book proposals and manuscripts for publishers: Polity Press; Routledge; Sage; Taylor and Francis; the University of Manchester Press and the University of Minnesota Press.
*I have assessed grant applications: SSHRC, Canada; the NSF, USA; and the ESRC and the Leverhulme Trust in the UK.
*I have reviewed articles for a number of journals including: ACME; Annals of the Association of American Geography; Antipode; Cities; Citizenship Studies; Dialogues in Geography; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Gender, Place and Culture; Geopolitics; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Journal of Historical Geography; Progress in Human Geography; Review of International Political Economy; Social and Cultural Geography; Town Planning Review; Urban Geography.
OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2020 – 2025. Co-chair and Co-founder, AAG Affinity Group on Mental Health in the Academy
2015-2018. Chair and Co-founder, Mental Health Task Force, AAG
Sept 2016 - Sept 2020 Member, Steering Committee, IGU Gender and Geography Commission
June 1991 - May 1992 Member, Nominating Committee, CAG
Jan 1989 - Jan 1990 Member, Political Geography Study Group Committee, IBG
Jan 1981 - Jan 1989 Co-founder, Women and Geography Study Group Committee, IBG
