Notes on contributor
Rob Kitchin is an ERC Advanced Investigator at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has published widely across the social sciences, including 21 books and over 130 articles and book chapters, and is editor of the international journals, Progress in Human Geography and Dialogues in Human Geography. He was the editor-in-chief of the 12 volumes of International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for the Social Sciences and his book ‘Code/Space’ (with Martin Dodge) won the Association of American Geographers ‘Meridian Book Award’ for the outstanding book in the discipline in 2011.