Susan J. Smith

Susan Jane Smith
A photograph of Susan Jane Smith, British geographer and academic.
Alma mater	St Anne's College, Oxford Nuffield College
Scientific career
Institutions	Girton College, Cambridge
Thesis	Crime and the structure of social relations within a British city: a geographical critique, with reference to north central Birmingham (1982)

Susan Jane Smith, FBA, FAcSS is a British geographer and academic. Since 2009, she has been Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Smith previously held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1990–2004 and until 2009 was a professor of geography at Durham University, where she played a key role in establishing the Institute of Advanced Study. On 1 October 2011, she was conferred the title of Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge for five years.

She studied at Oxford University, reading Geography at St Anne's College and completing her DPhil at Nuffield College. She held Research Fellowships at St Peter's College, Oxford, at Brunel University and at the University of Glasgow.

In 2010, Smith gave the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Cambridge University with the title "Care-full markets – Miracle or Mirage?" which examined—from a perspective of the ethics of care—the morality and economics of the housing market.

Susan plays euphonium with the City of Cambridge Brass Band.

Honours

In 2008, Smith was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2014, she was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Geographical Society.