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Research Interests
I am an historical geographer with particular research expertise in interpreting historic landscapes, maps, and built environments.
My research covers the fields of: Historical/cultural geography; Landscape history/archaeology; Histories of cartography/archaeology of cartography; Urban morphology/urban history/urban archaeology; Heritage studies/heritage practice.
Current projects include combining GIS and prosopography in analysing historic maps of Britain and Ireland, and tracing global histories of field-surveying and geodetics through landscapes and maps.
In recognition of my professional contribution to Geography, in 2018 I received from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) the Cuthbert Peek Award
"For advancing geographical knowledge through the application of contemporary methods, including GIS and mapping."
Funded research projects over the past 20 years that have helped achieve this include "Mapping Medieval Townscapes" (http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/), "Mapping Medieval Chester" (http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/), "Linguistic Geographies" (http://www.goughmap.org/), "City Witness" (http://www.medievalswansea.ac.uk/en/), and "Surveying Empires" (http://www.surveyingempires.org/).
These projects have shaped the broader field of Geohumanities, as well as cross-disciplinary research agendas through collaborating with research organisations, non-academic partners and local communities both within the UK and around the globe.
I am currently Chair of the Historic Towns Trust (HTT), a charitable organisation that oversees the production of the British Historic Towns Atlas series (see http://historictownsatlas.org.uk/) as part of the wider international European historic towns atlases project (seehttp://www.historictownsatlas.org.uk/hta-programme) established in 1955.
My books include:
• Urban Life in the Middle Ages: 1000-1450 (Palgrave, 2002)
• City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form (Reaktion, 2009)
• Mapping Medieval Geographies (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
My current and recent funded research projects include:
• ‘Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future’ – an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded public engagement centre based at Queen’s University Belfast to foster collaborations between academic and community researchers on heritage of World War 1 – for more information see http://www.livinglegacies1914-18.ac.uk/
• ‘Mapping Lineages: Quantifying the Evolution of Maps of the British Isles’ – a Leverhulme Trust funded project in collaboration with University of Liverpool and National University of Ireland Maynooth, in partnership with the British Library, to result in a new interactive mapping platform allowing users to navigate the changing nature of cartography of Britain and Ireland.
• ‘Inventor of Britain: The Complete Works of Humphrey Llwyd’ – an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project in collaboration with University of Exeter and National Library of Wales, to explore Humphrey Llwyd’s work as a Renaissance geographer and cartographer at a particularly exciting point in the long history of European cartography.
• ‘Surveying Empires – Archaeologies of Colonial Cartography’ – a project funded by the British Academy exploring the material cultures of surveying and map-making in India through the field-practices the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, evaluating and interpreting the sites, locales and landscape legacies of ‘colonial cartography’ in a post-colonial world.
Achievements
Awards and Distinctions
- Institute Fellow, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB, 2016-
- Institute Fellow, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities (ICRH), QUB, 2013
- Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 2008
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2006-7
- British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1996-1999
Elected and appointed positions on external research bodies:
- Chair, Historic Towns Trust/British Historic Towns Atlas, 2014-
- Board Member, International Commission of the History of Towns (ICHT), 2011-
- Chair, ‘Spatial Technologies and the Medieval City’ (STeMCity) research network, 2011-13
- UK Co-representative, General Assembly of the International Commission of the History of Towns (ICHT), 2010-
- Board member, British Historic Towns Atlas Committee, 2006-
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHS), elected 2005.
- Council Officer (Treasurer), 2005-2008, International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF)
- Conference officer, 1997-2000, Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society.
- Committee member, 1998-2000, 2003-2006, Medieval Settlement Research Group.
Teaching
Current Teaching:
GGY1011 Human Geography: Society, Power & Culture
GGY2002 Landscapes and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
GGY3090 Maps and Mappings
Current Administrative Roles
School of NBE, Director of Research ('Culture & Society')
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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R2574NBE: Mapping Lineages: Quantifying the Evolution of Maps of the British Isles
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R1119GGY: AHRC - AH/H014489/1 - Linguistic Geographies - The Gough Map of Great Britian and its making
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Project: Research
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Landscape mapping and symbolic form: drawing as a creative medium in cultural geography
Lilley, K., 2000, Cultural Turns/ Geographical Turns. Ryan, J., Naylor, S., Crouch, D. & Cook, I. (eds.). London: Longman, p. 231 245 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Decline or decay? Urban landscapes in late-medieval England
Lilley, K., 2000, Towns in Decline. AD100-1600. Slater, T. (ed.). Ashgate Publishing, p. 235 265 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Exploring change in urban areas using GIS: data sources, linkages and problems
Lilley, K., Lloyd, C., Shuttleworth, I. & Gregory, I., Mar 2012, In: Annals of GIS. 18, 1, p. 71-80 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A silent witness? Medieval urban landscapes and unfolding their mapping histories
Lilley, K. D. & Dean, G., 2015, In: Journal of Medieval History. 41, 3, p. 273-291 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maps of Medieval Thought? Cartographical Imaginaries, Cultural Symbolism and Urban Forms of the Late Middle Ages
Lilley, K., Oct 2015, Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe: The European Historic Towns Atlas Project. Simms, A. & Clarke, H. B. (eds.). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, p. 399-418 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Lilley, Keith (Recipient), 2005
Prize: Election to learned society
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Institute Fellow, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, QUB
Lilley, Keith (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Lilley, Keith (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Mapping medieval geographies conference, UCLA
Lilley, Keith (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Royal Geographical Society's (RGS) Cuthbert Peek Award
Lilley, Keith (Recipient), 04 Jun 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Revisiting New Towns of the Middle Ages - a conference and field seminar
Keith Lilley (Organiser)
May 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Castle towns and conquerors conference
Keith Lilley (Keynote/plenary speaker)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The Language of Maps
Keith Lilley (Organiser)
Jun 2011Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Unravelling historical geographies of British cartography: The uses of GIS in quantifying and comparing changes in medieval and modern maps and map-making - research seminar
Keith Lilley (Speaker)
Dec 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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11th European Urban History Conference
Keith Lilley (Speaker)
Aug 2012Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference