Research publications

Refereed papers and book chapters in review and in press

Ian Cook, Kersty Hobson, Lucius Hallett IV, Julie Guthman, Andrew Murphy, Alison Hulme, Mimi Sheller, Louise Crewe, David Nally, Emma Roe, Charles Mather, Paul Kingsbury, Rachel Slocum, Shoko Imai, Jean Duruz, Chris Philo, Henry Buller, Mike Goodman, Allison Hayes-Conroy, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, Lisa Tucker, Megan Blake, Richard Le Heron, Heather Putnam, Damian Maye, and Heike Henderson (2010). Geographies of food: 'Afters'. Progress in Human Geography.
doi:10.1177/0309132510369035
Blake, M.K., Mellor, J.C.L. and Crane, L. (2010, in press). Buying Local Food. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Blake, M.K. (2010, in press). Finding innovation in alterity or finding alterity in innovation? In: Fuller, D., Jonas, A. and Lee, R. (eds.) Alternative Economic and Political Spaces. Ashgate, Farnham.

Blake, M.K. (2002). Review of Bennett, R.J. and Payne, D. (2000). Local and Regional Economic Development: Renegotiating Power Under Labour. International Journal of Regional Science. 81(4), 511-513.
Blake, M.K. ( 2002). Review of Gordon Clark, Maryann Feldman, and Meric Gertler (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. European Urban and Regional Studies 9(2), 187-190.
Blake, M.K. (1999). Review of Lauria, M. (ed) Reconstructing Regime Theory. Economic Geography. 75(4), 419-420.

November 2006: BBC1 The Politics Show.
January 2006: Soroptimist International of Ilkley: Feeding the Family.
November 2005: BBC Woman's Hour: Thanksgiving.
March 2004: Soroptimist International of Harrogate: Balancing Home and Work.
January 2003: Soroptimist International of Yorkshire and Humberside: Strategies women use to balance home, work, and community responsibilities.
June 2000: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Constructing Entrepreneurship.
April 1999: Department of Geography, Salford University, Women entrepreneurs and the shape of cities.
January 1999: Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Is big in banking better? Gendered lending and women's entrepreneurship.

2006

Formality and Friendship: Some reflections on inserting institutions into friendship networks in a participatory research Project in a session organised by Rachel Pain and Farhana Sultana, Participatory ethics for human geography, presented at the Annual Conference 2006 of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers, London.
A socio-economic profile of foreign students in the United Kingdom with Tziamalis, A. and Ballas, D., presented at the 46th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Volos.

2005

Rethinking Innovation: Context and Gender with Susan Hanson, presented at the Annual Conference 2005 of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London.
Rethinking Innovation with Susan Hanson, presented at the Alternative Economic Spaces: New Political Stories research conference, Hull.
Re-conceptualising job satisfaction and migration: a preliminary European analysis with Hale, D. and Bailey, A.J., presented at the 45th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Amsterdam

2003

"I want to make my life easier, not add a new dimension": Women, technology, and lifecourse in a session organised by Mei-Po Qwan, The Ohio State University and Pamela Moss, University of Victoria. Presented at the 99th Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2002

Imagining home presented at the First International Population Geography Conference, St. Andrews.

2000

The Rise and Fall of New England in a session organized by Amy Glassmeier, Pennsylvania State University. Presented at the 96h Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Consequences of migration on the career paths of partners in dual career households with Adrian J. Bailey, University of Leeds (principal presenter) and Thomas Cooke, University of Connecticut. Presented at the 96th Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.