HILARY GEOGHEGAN
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (University of London), Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
Email: h.geoghegan@rhul.ac.uk
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
March 2008 – Present
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (University of London)
EDUCATION
2003 – 2007
PhD in Human Geography
Royal Holloway (University of London)
Thesis Title: The Culture of Enthusiasm: technology, material culture and museums
Supervisor: Professor F. Driver
Advisors: Professor P. Crang and Dr T. Boon (Head of Collections at Science
Museum)
Examiners: Professor D. Matless (Nottingham) and Dr G. Davies (UCL)
2002-2003
MA in Cultural Geography (Research)
Royal Holloway (University of London)
1998-2002
BA (Hons) Geography with European Study
University of Exeter
Erasmus Year: October 2000 to July 2001, University of Bern, Switzerland
Upper Second Class Honours
AWARDS
March 2008-February 2009
Award Number: PTA-026-27-1611
August 2005
Awarded a postgraduate support grant by the Historical Geography Research Group to
attend the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual conference in 2005
October 2003-Sept 2006
ESRC CASE PhD studentship in collaboration with the Science Museum, London.
Award Number: PTA-033-2003-00036
October 2002-Sept 2003
College Master’s Studentship at Royal Holloway, University of London
July 2002
Jonathan Ratnage Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Exeter
CONFERENCE SESSION ORGANISATION
September 2007
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
(2 Sessions sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography Research Group)
Co-convenor and participant of ‘Enchanting Geographies’
Discussant: Professor Clive Gamble
June 2007
International Association of Transport and Communications Museums Annual
Conference
Panel convenor of ‘Volunteer Enthusiasm: a National Museum of Science and
Industry case study’
June 2006
Researching Cultural Spaces: an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
(Funded by AHRC, supported by Royal Holloway & Queen Mary, University of
London)
Member of organizing committee and convenor of ‘Exploring Im/materialities’ session
September 2005
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
(2 Sessions sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography and Historical Geography
Research Groups)
Co-convenor and participant of ‘Spaces of Knowledge – Communities of Knowing’
session
Discussant: Professor Stephen Daniels
For presentations please see conference paper page of this site
For articles, reviews and reports please see publications page of this site
For referees please email me.
