 Dr Sarah Mills
B.A., M.A., Ph.D (Wales)
Lecturer in Human Geography
email: S.Mills@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 223725
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
Room NN.1.36, Martin Hall building, East Park
Personal webpage: www.sarah-mills.com
2012- Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Loughborough University
2011-2012 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Leicester
2007-2010 PhD, Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Research Interests
I am a cultural-historical geographer interested in the geographies of learning, children and young people. In particular, I am interested in the complex geographies, spaces and subjectivities of youth citizenship and how this has been understood and conceptualised over time. My PhD research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Open Competition), focused on the citizenship project of the Scout Movement in Britain. Drawing on original archival research at a number of collections in the UK, I explored the geographies of citizenship in scouting and how gendered, political and religious identities have challenged this youth organisation's original model of an 'ideal citizen'. I have extended this research to explore other youth movement spaces, in particular the Woodcraft Folk in Britain, as well as the wider geographies of volunteering and informal education.
Publications
Edited Book
Mills, S. and Kraftl, P. (under contract, exp. 2013) (eds) Informal Education and Children’s Everyday Lives: Geographies, Histories and Practices Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Journal Articles
Mills, S. (2012, forthcoming) Duty to God/Dharma/Allah/Waheguru: Diverse youthful religiosities and the politics and performance of informal worship, accepted for publication in Social & Cultural Geography.
Mills, S. (2012) "Instruction in Good Citizenship": Scouting and the Historical Geographies of Citizenship Education, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00500.x
Mills, S. (2012, forthcoming) Young Ghosts: Ethical and Methodological Issues of Archival Research in Children's Geographies, 'Viewpoint' in Children's Geographies
Robinson, J. and Mills, S (in press, 2012) Being Observant/Observed: embodied citizenship training in Britain’s Home Guard and Boy Scout Movement, 1907-1945, The Journal of Historical Geography
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. (2011) Be Prepared: Communism and the Politics of Scouting in 1950s Britain, Contemporary British History 25 (3): 429-450
Book Chapters
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, 190-20
Online Publications
Mills, S. (2010) 'Colin Ward: The 'Gentle' Anarchist and Informal Education' the encyclopaedia of informal education, www.infed.org/thinkers/colin_ward.htm
User Engagement Activities & Publications for Non-Academic Communities
Mills, S. (2011) Local Scouting Exhibitions: A Beginner's Guide, online resource
available at: http://www.scoutsrecords.org/advice-guidance.php
Mills, S. (2011) Scout History: Programme Ideas and Resource Pack, online resource available http://www.scoutsrecords.org/advice-guidance.php
Mills, S. (2009) 100 Years of Scouting in Ceredigion, EXHIBITION, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
Mills, S. (2007) Scouting for Boys, EXHIBITION, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
Mills, S. (2007) Citizenship, Religion and Ethnic Minorities in Welsh Scouting, unpublished report for the Welsh Scout Council
Key Scholarly Activities
I have presented 16 conference papers including 2 invited presentations. I have also organised a workshop on 'Spaces of Youth Citizenship' at University of Leicester (2012) and have co-organised 4 sessions at international geography conferences. I acted as a News Editor for RGS-IBG Geography Directions in association with Wiley-Blackwell between 2010-2012. I am a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Treasurer of the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group (GCYFRG), and Membership Secretary of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG).
Awards:
2010 Honourable Mention - Andrew Hill Clark Award, Student Paper Competition for Historical Geography Speciality Group of the Association of American Geographers
2007 Faculty of Arts Masters Thesis Prize - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
2007 Human Geography MA Prize (Parts 1 & 2)
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
2006 James Fairgrieve and Gregynog (Arts) Undergraduate Prize
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
For a full list of publications, conference papers and activities, visit: www.sarah-mills.com
Teaching
Geographies of Identity (Year 1)
Feminist Geographies of Home (Year 3) *module convenor*
I also contribute to tutorials/student support for Geographical Research: Concepts & Design (Year 2) and Independent Geography Essay (Year 3).
Globalization and Society (MSc)
Doing Global Research (MSc)
Dissertation (MSc)
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