Professor Sarah Holloway

  • Professor of Human Geography
Sarah Holloway

Academic Career

  • 2013 onwards: Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 
  • 2012: British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. 
  • 2010 onwards: Professor of Human Geography, 夜色直播app. 
  • 2007: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. 
  • 1994 -2007: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Human Geography, 夜色直播app.

Professional Responsibilities

  • 2011onwards:  Editorial Board Member, . 
  • 2009 onwards: Editorial Board Member, . 

Sarah is a social and cultural geographer, with twin interests in ‘’ and ‘Geographies of Social Difference’.

Her current research explores these themes through a focus on , a field which foregrounds the ways wider social processes shape (and are reshaped through) formal and informal spaces of education, and considers how this is experienced, embraced and contested by educators and . Her research on primary education explores: ; the growth of for children; the ; ; and mothers efforts to balance. In the secondary sector, her research explores the and . In the university sector, she has explored implications of gender, sexuality and religion in young people’s accrual of cultural capital when they are .

Her previous research has investigated: (i) class differentiated geographies of childrearing; (ii) young people’s use of new technologies at home and school; (iii) gender and youth in domesticated and public drinking landscapes; (iii) racialisation of Gypsy-Traveller and rural racism.

Sarah’s teaching examines the importance of social divisions such as class, gender and race at local, national and global scales. Across the undergraduate programme, she considers: the empirical geographies of these differences; philosophical changes in geographical approaches to them; and the ways they shape geographies of housing, home life, and senses of being at home.

Current Postgraduate 夜色直播app Students

  • Emma Bates: Discerning the perceptions of middle-class, pre-career women towards their careers and work-family balance
  • Aysegul Dilbirligi: Attitudes to parenting in Turkey and the UK

Recent Postgraduate 夜色直播app Students

  • Sophie Beer (2018): Spaces of early education and care: exploring ethos, choice and parental engagement
  • Tim Fewtrell (2018): Geographies of youth, volunteering and religion: Narratives of young Muslim volunteers in Birmingham, UK
  • Stacey Balsdon (2015): 'Studentsification': Recognising the diversity of student populations and student accommodation pathways

Selected Publications

  • Holloway, S.L. & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2021) Environment and Planning A, 53.6: 1547–1564
  • Pimlott-Wilson, H. & Holloway, S.L. (2021) Geoforum, 127(December): 71-80
  • Holloway, S.L. & Kirby, P. (2020) Neoliberalising education: New geographies of private tuition, class privilege and minority ethnic advancement Antipode, 52.1: 164–184 ().
  • Holloway, S.L. & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2020) Marketising private tuition: Representations of tutors' competence, entrepreneurial opportunities, and service legitimation in home tutoring business manuals British Educational 夜色直播app Journal, 46.1: 205–221 ().
  • Ku膷erová, S.R., Holloway, S.L. Jahnke, H. (2020) The Institutionalization of the Geography of Education: An International Perspective Journal of Pedagogy, 11.1: 13-34. ().
  • Holloway, S.L., Holt, L. & Mills, S. (2019) Questions of agency: Capacity, subjectivity, spatiality and temporality Progress in Human Geography 43.3: 458-477. () 
  • Holloway, S.L. & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2018) Reconceptualising play: Balancing childcare, extra-curricular activities and free play in contemporary childhoods Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers43.3: 420-434. () 
  • Holloway, SL & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2016) New economy, neoliberal state and professionalized parenting: mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class-differentiated Britain Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers  41.4: 376–388 ()
  • Holloway, S.L. (2014) Changing children's geographies Children's Geographies, 12(4):377-392 
  • Holloway, S.L. & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2014) Enriching children, institutionalizing childhood?: Geographies of play, extra-curricular activities, and parenting in England Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104(3): 613-27 ()
  • Holloway, SL & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2014) “Any advice is welcome isn’t it?”: neoliberal parenting education, local mothering cultures and social class Environment and Planning A46(1): 94-111 )