ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

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• Tel: 0116 252 3849
• Email: sm599@le.ac.uk
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Biography

I am currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Leicester. I have recently completed my PhD in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University. My doctoral research (funded by the ESRC) examined the Scout Movement in Britain and the cultural and historical geographies of its youth citizenship project. I completed my undergraduate degree in Geography at Aberystwyth in 2006 graduating with first-class honours. I then started a Masters in political geography and passed with distinction in the summer of 2007 before starting my PhD research.

I am inspired by many areas of contemporary human geography including cultural, historical, feminist and political geography. I am a News Editor for RGS-IBG Geography Directions in association with Wiley-Blackwell.

Recent Publications

Mills, S. (in press) 'Be Prepared: Communism and the Politics of Scouting in 1950s Britain', Contemporary British History 25 (3): pages to be confirmed

Mills, S. (2011) 'Scouting for Girls? Gender and the Scout Movement in Britain', Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 18 (4): 537-556

Mills, S. (2010) 'Colin Ward: The 'Gentle' Anarchist and Informal Education' in the encyclopaedia of informal education. Available at: www.infed.org/thinkers/colin_ward.htm

Mills, S. (2009) 'Citizenship and Faith: Muslim Scout Groups' in Richard Phillips (Ed.) Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, London: Zed Books, 85-103.

Mills, S. (2009) ‘Youth Citizenship and Religious Difference: Muslim Scouting in the United Kingdom’ in Tammy Proctor and Nelson Block (eds) Scouting Frontiers: Global Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 190-206.

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