Robyn Longhurst

Robyn Longhurst FRSNZ is a New Zealand human geography academician. In 2006 she was appointed full professor at the University of Waikato.^[4] In 2015 at Waikato she took up the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). In 2024 she took up the same role at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Robyn Longhurst FRSNZ
Longhurst in 2023
Nationality	New Zealander
Citizenship	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Waikato
Awards	2018 Elected as Fellow of Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand 2018 Awarded International Geographical Union Lauréat d’honneur 2012 Jan Monk Service Award by the Association of American Geographers
Scientific career
Fields	Human geography
Institutions	University of Waikato Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
Thesis	Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places  (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Bedford Evelyn Stokes[1]
Doctoral students	Lynda Johnston[2]
Other notable students	Angeline Greensill[3]

Academic career

After a 1996 PhD titled 'Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places' at the University of Waikato,^[5] Longhurst joined the staff, rising to full professor.^{[4][6][7][8][9][10]} Notable students include Lynda Johnston and Angeline Greensill.^[11]

In 2018 Longhurst was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[12]

Selected works

• Longhurst, Robyn. "Semi-structured interviews and focus groups." Key methods in geography 3 (2003): 143–156.
• Longhurst, Robyn. Bodies: Exploring fluid boundaries. Routledge, 2004.
• Johnston, Lynda, and Robyn Longhurst. Space, place, and sex: Geographies of sexualities. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
• Longhurst, Robyn, Elsie Ho, and Lynda Johnston. "Using 'the body’as an 'instrument of research': kimch’i and pavlova." Area 40, no. 2 (2008): 208–217.
• Longhurst, Robyn. "VIEWPOINT The body and geography." Gender, Place & Culture 2, no. 1 (1995): 97–106.