Jane Wills
Jane Wills is a British geographer and academic. She is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. She was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2022, in recognition of her contributions to Political Geography.
Life
Jane Wills was educated at Wymondham College before studying geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She gained a PhD at the Open University, supervised by Doreen Massey and John Allen. She taught at the University of Cambridge before being appointed to a lectureship at the University of Southampton in 1993. In 1998 she became a lecturer in geography at Queen Mary University of London, later becoming Professor of Human Geography there. In 2013 Wills won the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award. In 2017, she became Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter.In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.