Prof Rob Kitchin

Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), Geography

Professor

2.23 Iontas
(01) 708 3372

Biography

Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University, for which he was director 2002-2013, and 2021-2022. After studying at Lancaster University (BSc Geography), Leicester University (MSc GIS), and the University of Wales Swansea (PhD Geography), he took up a post in Queen's University Belfast in 1996, moving to Maynooth University in 1998. He is principal investigator on the Data Stories project (funded by the European Research Council, 2022-2027) and was PI for the Building City Dashboards project (funded by Science Foundation Ireland, 2016-21),the Programmable City project (funded by the European Research Council, 2013-18), the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017) and the All-Island Research Observatory (2005-2017). He was Chair of the Irish Social Sciences Platform 2007-2013.

He has published widely across the social sciences, including 33 authored/edited books and over 200 articles and book chapters, and
has delivered over 270 invited talks at conferences and universities. He has been the managing editor of the international journals, Dialogues in Human Geography (2011-20) and Social and Cultural  Geography (2000-09) and an editor of Progress in Human Geography (2010-14). He was the editor-in-chief of the 12 volume, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He has successfully written or been a principal investigator on fifty funding awards, totalling c.€39m (€19m to MU), including funding from PRTLI 2, 4, 5, ERC, SFI, ESRC, NSF, Special EU Programmes Body, Interreg and RIA, and a number of government departments and public bodies.

He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for the Social Sciences and recipient of the Maynooth University
Research Achievement Award, 2018. He received the Association of American Geographers ‘Meridian Book Award’ for the outstanding book in the discipline in 2011, and his research has been discussed over 600 times in local,  national and international news media.  Google Scholar profile
Kitchin.org (for pdfs of OA articles/chapters)
Academia.edu profile
Twitter account                                                    Programmable City site
IrelandAfterNAMA blog
The View from the Blue house blog
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4458-7299

Research Interests

Since completing my PhD in 1995 my research has spanned a number of interrelated domains that can broadly divided into overlapping clusters of projects and publications:

    Software, big data, smart cities
    The Internet and cyberspace
    Cartographic theory, mapping and dashboards
    Data infrastructures and practices
    Spatial theory and geographic methods
    The development of the discipline of  Geography
    Ireland: social geography, housing, spatial planning
    Diaspora strategies and migration
    Disability issues
    Cognitive mapping; relationship between Geography and Psychology  

I have been fortunate enough to have (co)written or been the principal investigator on 45 funded research projects, research infrastructure, and research centre/platform awards totalling c.€36 million from a range of funders, including the European Research Council (ERC, EU), Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS, Ireland), Royal Irish Academy (RIA, Ireland), Higher Education Authority (HEA, Ireland), Science Foundation Ireland (SFI, Ireland), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK), National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), ESPON (Europe) and the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB, Europe).  

Current on-going funded research includes

The Programmable City (2013-2018).  Funded by the European Research Council, €2.31m (ERC-2012-AdG 323636-SOFTCITY); plus a supplemental SFI award of €300K. Project website 

Building City Dashboards: Addressing applied and fundamental issues (2016-2020). Funded by Science Foundation Ireland, €2.35m (15/IA/3090).  Co-PIs Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, Co-Is Jeneen Naji and Gavin McArdle. 

Digital Repository of Ireland (2010-2015, on-going). Funded by the Programme for Research for Third Level Institutions, cycle 5, Higher Education Authority, €5.2m (MU share €1.42m). Partner institutions: MU, TCD, RIA, DIT, NUIG, NCAD. Project website     


Book

Year Publication
2023 Kitchin, R. (2023) Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society. Cambridge: Polity Books.
2022 Kitchin, R. (2022) The Data Revolution: A Critical Approach to Big Data, Open Data, and Data Infrastructures. London: Sage.
2021 Kitchin, R. (2021) Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
2020 Kitchin, R. and Fraser, A. (2020) Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. London: Sage. [DOI]
2013 Castree, N., Kitchin, R. and Rogers, A. (2013) A Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [DOI]
2011 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2011) Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [DOI]
2008 Gleeson, J., Kitchin, R. Bartley, B., Driscoll, J. Foley, R., Fotheringham, S. and Lloyd, C. (2008) The Atlas of the Island of Ireland. nirsa: AIRO/ICLRD.
2005 Kitchin, R. and Fuller, D. (2005) The Academic’s Guide to Publishing. : Sage.
2002 Phil Hubbard, R. M. Kitchin, Bartley, B. and D. Fuller (2002) Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography. : Continuum.
2001 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2001) Atlas of Cyberspace. : Addison-Wesley.
2001 Kitchin, R. and Blades, M. (2001) The Cognition of Geographic Space. : IB Taurus.
2000 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2000) Mapping Cyberspace. London: Routledge. [DOI]
2000 Kitchin, R. (2000) Disability, Space and Society. Changing Geography Series. : Geographical Association.
1999 Kitchin, R. and Tate, N. (1999) Conducting Research in Human Geography: Theory, Methodology and Practice. Harlow: Prentice Hall. [DOI]
1998 Kitchin, R. (1998) Cyberspace: The World in the Wires. : John Wiley and Sons.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2019 Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R (Ed.). (2019) The Right to the Smart City. Bingley: Emerald,
2019 Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw. J (Ed.). (2019) How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Oxford: Meatspace Press,
2018 Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A (Ed.). (2018) Digital Geographies. London: Sage,
2018 Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R (Ed.). (2018) Creating Smart Cities. London: Routledge,
2017 Kitchin, R.; Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M.W (Ed.). (2017) Understanding Spatial Media. London: Sage, [Link]
2017 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and McArdle, G (Ed.). (2017) Data and the City. London: Routledge,
2016 Kitchin, R. and Perng, S.Y (Ed.). (2016) Code and the City. London: Routledge, [DOI]
2014 Lee R.;Castree N.;Kitchin R.;Lawson V.;Paasi A.;Philo C.;Radcliffe S.;Roberts S.;Withers C (Ed.). (2014) The SAGE handbook of human geography: Two volume set. London: Sage, [DOI]
2011 Dodge M.;Kitchin R.;Perkins C (Ed.). (2011) The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. London: Sage, [DOI]
2010 Hubbard, P. and Kitchin, R (Ed.). (2010) Key Thinkers on Space and Place 2nd Edition. London: Sage Publications,
2009 Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N (Ed.). (2009) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. 12 volumes. Oxford: Elsevier, [DOI]
2009 Dodge, M., Kitchin, R. and Perkins, C (Ed.). (2009) Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. London: Routledge, [DOI]
2008 Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G (Ed.). (2008) Key Texts in Human Geography. London: Sage, [DOI]
2007 Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R (Ed.). (2007) Understanding Contemporary Ireland. London: Pluto Press,
2007 Kitchin, R (Ed.). (2007) Mapping Worlds: International Perspectives on Social and Cultural Geographies. London: Taylor and Francis, [DOI]
2004 Kitchin, R. M. and D Fuller (Ed.). (2004) Radical Theory, Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?. Kelowna, BC: Praxis E-Press,
2004 Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G (Ed.). (2004) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London: Sage,
2002 Kitchin, R. and Kneale, J (Ed.). (2002) Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction. London: Continuum, [DOI]
2000 Kitchin, R. and Freundschuh, S (Ed.). (2000) Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future. London: Routledge,

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Delaney, A; Kitchin, R (2023) 'Progress and prospects for data-driven coordinated management and emergency response: the case of Ireland'. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11 (1):174-189. [DOI]
2022 Kitchin R. (2022) 'Conceptualising smart cities'. Urban Research and Practice, 15 (1):155-159. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2022 Gleeson, J., Kitchin, R. and McCarthy, E. (2022) 'Dashboards and public health: The development, impacts, and lessons from the Irish Government COVID-19 dashboards'. American Journal of Public Health, 112 (6):896-899. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306848 [Full-Text]
2022 Bradshaw, R; Kitchin, R (2022) 'Charting the design and implementation of the smart city: the case of citizen-centric bikeshare in Hamilton, Ontario'. Urban Geography, 43 (4):567-588. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 White, JM; Kitchin, R (2021) 'For or Against 'The Business of Benchmarking'?'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45 :385-388. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Kitchin R.; Young G.W.; Dawkins O. (2021) 'Planning and 3D Spatial Media: Progress, Prospects, and the Knowledge and Experiences of Local Government Planners in Ireland'. Planning Theory and Practice, 22 (3):349-367. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Kitchin R.; Stehle S. (2021) 'Can Smart City Data be Used to Create New Official Statistics?'. Journal of Official Statistics, 37 (1):121-147. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Young G.W.; Kitchin R.; Naji J. (2021) 'Building City Dashboards for Different Types of Users'. Journal of Urban Technology, 28 (1-2):289-309. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Kitchin R.; Moore-Cherry N. (2021) 'Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart city-regions: the case of Metropolitan Boston'. Regional Studies, 55 (12):1913-1923. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Rose-Redwood R.; Kitchin R.; Apostolopoulou E.; Rickards L.; Blackman T.; Crampton J.; Rossi U.; Buckley M. (2020) 'Geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 10 (2):97-106. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Kitchin R. (2020) 'Civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health? Using surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of COVID-19'. Space and Polity, 24 (2):362-381. [DOI]
2020 Stehle, S; Kitchin, R (2020) 'Real-time and archival data visualisation techniques in city dashboards'. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34 (2):344-366. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Young G.W.; Kitchin R. (2020) 'Creating design guidelines for building city dashboards from a user's perspectives'. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 140 :1-17. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2019) 'The (in)security of smart cities: vulnerabilities, risks, mitigation and prevention'. Journal of Urban Technology, 26 (2):47-65. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'The timescape of smart cities'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 109 (3):775-790. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2019) 'Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe'. Environment And Planning C: Politics And Space, 37 (5):813-830. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Coletta C.; Heaphy L.; Kitchin R. (2019) 'From the accidental to articulated smart city: The creation and work of ‘Smart Dublin’'. European Urban and Regional Studies, 26 (4):349-364. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2019) 'Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation in Dublin'. Geojournal, 84 (1):1-13. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Perng S.; Kitchin R.; Mac Donncha D. (2018) 'Hackathons, entrepreneurial life and the making of smart cities'. Geoforum, 97 :189-197. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Rose-Redwood, R; Kitchin, R; Rickards, L; Rossi, U; Datta, A; Crampton, J (2018) 'The possibilities and limits to dialogue'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 8 :109-123. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Evans, L. and Kitchin, R. (2018) 'A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores'. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33 (1):44-57. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Cardullo, P., Kitchin, R. and di feliciantonio, C. (2018) 'Living Labs, vacancy, and gentrification'. Cities, 73 :44-50. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Perng, Sung-Yueh and Kitchin, Rob (2018) 'Solutions and frictions in civic hacking: Collaboratively designing and building a queuing app for an immigration office'. Social and Cultural Geography, 19 (1):1-20. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2018) 'Digital turn, digital geographies?'. Progress in Human Geography, 42 (1):25-43. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R (2017) 'The Realtimeness of Smart Cities'. Tecnoscienza Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 8 :19-41. [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Mac Donncha, D. (2017) 'Smart cities, urban technocrats, epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and the ‘last mile’ problem'. IT - Information Technology, 59 (6):275-284. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2017) 'The (in)security of smart cities: vulnerabilities, risks, mitigation and prevention'. Journal of Urban Technology, online first :1-19. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Coletta, C. and Kitchin, R. (2017) 'Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things'. BIG DATA AND SOCIETY, 4 :1-16. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) 'Thinking critically about and researching algorithms'. Information Communication and Society, 20 (1):14-29. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R., with Schechtner, K. (2017) 'Bridging the adoption gap for smart city technologies'. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 16 :72-75. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Perng, Sung-Yueh, Kitchin, Rob and Evans, Leighton (2016) 'Locative media and data-driven computing experiments'. BIG DATA AND SOCIETY, 3 (1):1-12. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'The ethics of smart cities and urban science'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374 (2083):1-15. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2016) 'Improving the veracity of open and real-time urban data'. Built Environment, 42 (3):446-462. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R., Maalsen, S. and McArdle, G. (2016) 'The praxis and politics of building urban dashboards'. Geoforum, 77 :93-101. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2016) 'What makes big data, big data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets'. BIG DATA AND SOCIETY, 3 :1-10. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'Geographers matter! Doreen Massey (1944-2016)'. Social and Cultural Geography, online first . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R (2015) 'Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings'. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8 :131-136. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin R.; Lauriault T. (2015) 'Small data in the era of big data'. Geo Journal, 80 (4):463-475. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'The opportunities, challenges and risks of big data for official statistics'. STATISTICAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS, 31 :471-481. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R., Collins, S. and Frost, D. (2015) 'Funding models for open access digital data repositories'. Online Information Review, 39 :664-681. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 O’Callaghan, C., Boyle, M., Kelly, S., and Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Topologies and topographies of Ireland’s neoliberal crisis'. Space and Polity, 19 :31-46. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and McArdle, G. (2015) 'Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking and real-time dashboards'. REGIONAL STUDIES, REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2 :1-28. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and McArdle, G. (2015) 'Urban indicators and dashboards: epistemology, contradictions and power/knowledge'. REGIONAL STUDIES, REGIONAL SCIENCE, 2 :43-45. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin R. (2015) 'Undertaking PhD research in human geography in Ireland'. Geo Journal, 80 (2):239-242. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin R. (2014) 'The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism'. Geo Journal, 79 (1):1-14. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R (2014) 'Engaging publics: writing as praxis'. Cultural Geographies, 21 :153-157. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 O’Callaghan, C., Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2014) 'Post-politics, crisis, and Ireland’s ghost estates'. Political Geography, 42 :121-133. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R; O'Callaghan, C; Gleeson, J (2014) 'The New Ruins of Ireland? Unfinished Estates in the Post-Celtic Tiger Era'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 :1069-1080. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) 'Big data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts'. BIG DATA AND SOCIETY, 1 :1-12. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) 'From mathematical to post-representational understandings of cartography'. Progress in Human Geography, e-special :1-7. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R; Gleeson, J; Dodge, M (2013) 'Unfolding mapping practices: a new epistemology for cartography'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38 :480-496. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R. (2013) 'Big data and human geography: Opportunities, challenges and risks'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 3 :262-267. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R., Linehan, D., OCallaghan, C. and Lawton, P. (2013) 'Public geographies and social media'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 3 :56-72. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R. Linehan, D., OCallaghan, C. and Lawton, P. (2013) 'The creation and circulation of public geographies'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 3 :96-102. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Dodge, M; Kitchin, R (2013) 'Crowdsourced cartography: mapping experience and knowledge'. Environment and Planning A, 45 :19-36. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2013) 'Code/space and the nature, production and enrolment of software'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 3 :249-252. [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R. (2013) 'Making informed decisions on future housing policy'. HOUSING IRELAND, 3 :36-41. [Full-Text]
2012 Kitchin, R; O'Callaghan, C; Boyle, M; Gleeson, J; Keaveney, K (2012) 'Placing neoliberalism: the rise and fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger'. Environment and Planning A, 44 :1302-1326. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2012 Daly, G. and Kitchin, R. (2012) 'Shrink Smarter? Planning for Spatial Selectivity in Population Growth in Ireland'. Administration, 60 :159-186. [Full-Text]
2012 Walsh, C. and Kitchin, R. (2012) 'Supporting Evidence-Informed Spatial Planning in Ireland: A Research Perspective'. PLEANÁIL, 18 :75-89. [Full-Text]
2011 Kitchin, R. (2011) 'The Programmable City'. Environment & Planning B, 38 :945-951. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2010 Kitchin, R. (2010) 'Post-representational cartography'. LO SQUADERNO, 15 :7-11. [Full-Text]
2009 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2009) 'Software, objects and home spaces'. Environment and Planning A, 41 :1344-1365. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2009 Dodge. M, Kitchin R. and Zook, M. (2009) 'How does software make space? Exploring some geographical dimensions of pervasive computing and software studies'. Environment and Planning A, 41 :1283-1293. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Crowley, U. and Kitchin, R. (2008) 'Producing ‘decent’ girls: governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922-1937)'. Gender, Place, and Culture, 15 :355-372. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Kitchin R. (2008) 'The practices of mapping'. Cartographica, 43 (3):211-215. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R; Dodge, M (2007) 'Rethinking maps'. Progress in Human Geography, 31 :331-344. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Dodge, M; Kitchin, R (2007) 'The automatic management of drivers and driving spaces'. Geoforum, 38 :264-275. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2007) '‘Outlines of a world coming in existence’: Pervasive computing and the ethics of forgetting'. Environment & Planning B, 34 :431-445. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Crowley, U. and Kitchin, R. (2007) 'Paradoxical spaces of citizenship in contemporary Ireland: the case of Irish Travellers'. Irish Geography, 40 :128-145. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Hubbard, P. and Kitchin, R. (2007) 'Battleground geographies and conspiracy theories? A response to Johnston (2006)'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32 :428-434. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R., Bartley, B., Gleeson, J., Cowman, M., Fotheringham, S. and Lloyd, C. (2007) ''Joined-up Thinking across the Irish Border: Making the Data more Compatible''. JOURNAL OF CROSS BORDER STUDIES IN IRELAND, 2 :22-3 . [Link] [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R. (2007) 'Elsevier, the arms trade, and the forms, means and ends of protest a response to Chatterton and Featherstone'. Political Geography, 26 :499-503. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2006 Kitchin R.; Dodge M. (2006) 'Software and the mundane management of air travel'. First Monday, 11 (SPEC. ISS. 7). [Full-Text]
2006 Kitchin, R. and Sidaway, J. (2006) 'Geography’s strategies'. Professional Geographer, 58 :485-491. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2006 Kitchin, R. (2006) 'Research assessment in Ireland'. Progress in Human Geography, 30 :749-751. [Full-Text]
2005 Dodge, M; Kitchin, R (2005) 'Code and the transduction of space'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95 :162-180. [Full-Text]
2005 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2005) 'Codes of life: Identification codes and the machine-readable world'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D, 23 :851-881. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2005 Andrews, G. and Kitchin, R. (2005) 'Geography and nursing: convergence in cyberspace'. Nursing Inquiry, 12 :316-324. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2005 Kitchin, R. (2005) 'Disrupting and destabilising Anglo-American and English-language hegemony in Geography'. Social and Cultural Geography, 6 :1-16. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2005 Kitchin, R. (2005) 'The editor’s role in refereeing: A response to Johnston and Pattie'. Area, 33 :455-456. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2005 Hubbard, P.; Kitchin, R.; Valentine, G. (2005) 'Editors’ Reply'. Environment and Planning A, 37 :184-187. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2005 Kitchin R. (2005) 'Analysis of submission data, 1999-2004'. Social and Cultural Geography, 6 (6):923-926. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2004 Dodge, M; Kitchin, R (2004) 'Flying through code/space: the real virtuality of air travel'. Environment and Planning A, 36 :195-211. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2004 Kitchin R.; Lysaght K. (2004) 'Sexual citizenship in Belfast, Northern Ireland'. Gender, Place, and Culture, 11 (1):83-104. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2004 Kitchin, R. (2004) 'Geography in Ireland in Transition'. Irish Geography, 37 :15-19. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R. and Wilton, R. (2003) 'Disability activism and the politics of scale in Canada and Ireland'. CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER, 47 :97-115. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R; Lysaght, K (2003) 'Heterosexism and the geographies of everyday life in Belfast, Northern Ireland'. Environment and Planning A, 35 :489-510. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R. (2003) 'Architects disable: A challenge to transform'. Building Material, 10 :8-13. [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R. (2003) 'Cuestionando y desestabilizando la hegemonia angloamericana y del ingles en geografia'. Documents d' Analisi Geografica, 42 :17-36. [Link] [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R. and Fuller, D. (2003) 'Making the ‘black box’ transparent: publishing and presenting geographic knowledge'. Area, 31 :313-315. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2003 Kitchin, R. (2003) 'Editorial: Country reports'. Social and Cultural Geography, 4 (2):253-254. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R. (2002) 'Sexing the city: the sexual production of space in Belfast, Manchester and San Francisco'. City, 6 :205-218. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R. (2002) 'Participatory mapping of disabled access'. Cartographic Perspectives, 42 :50-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/CP41.563 [Full-Text]
2002 Blades, M; Lippa, Y; Golledge, RG; Jacobson, RD; Kitchin, RM (2002) 'The effect of spatial tasks on visually impaired peoples' wayfinding abilities'. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 96 :407-419. [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2001) 'Placing cyberspace : why geography still matters'. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, 1 :25-46. [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R.; Kneale, J. (2001) 'Science fiction or future fact? Exploring the imaginative geographies of the new millennium'. Progress in Human Geography, 25 :17-33. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R. and Law, R. (2001) 'The socio-spatial construction of disabled-access toilets'. Urban Studies, 32 :287-298. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R. (2001) 'Using participatory action research approaches in geographical studies of disability: Some reflections'. DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY, 21 :61-69. [Full-Text]
2001 Jacobson, R.D., Lippa, Y., Golledge, R., Kitchin, R. and Blades, M. (2001) 'Rapid development of cognitive maps in people with visual impairments when exploring novel geographic spaces'. BULLETIN OF PEOPLE-ENVIRONMENT STUDIES, :3-6. [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R (2000) 'The Researched Opinions on Research: disabled people and disability research'. Disability and Society, 15 :25-47. [Full-Text]
2000 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2000) 'Exposing the ‘second text’ in maps of the Network Society'. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 5 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2000 Anderson, P; Kitchin, R (2000) 'Disability, space and sexuality: access to family planning services'. Social Science and Medicine, 51 :1163-1173. [Full-Text]
2000 Golledge, R.G., Jacobson, R.D., Blades, M., and Kitchin, R. (2000) 'Cognitive maps, spatial abilities and human wayfinding'. Geographical Review of Japan, Series B, 73 :93-104. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2000 Shuttleworth, I., Kitchin, R., Shirlow, P., McDonagh, J. (2000) 'The tail of the tiger: Experiences and perceptions of unemployment in Donegal'. Irish Geography, 33 :56-73. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R. and Wilton, R. (2000) 'Disability, Geography and Ethics: Introduction'. Ethics, Place and Environment, 3 :61-65. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1999 Kitchin, R. and Hubbard, P.J. (1999) 'Research, Action and ‘Critical’ Geographies'. Area, 31 :195-198. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1999 Kitchin, R. (1999) 'Creating an awareness of Others: highlighting the role of space and place'. Journal of Geography, 84 :45-54. [Full-Text]
1999 Halfacree, K.H. and Kitchin, R. (1999) 'Rock n’ stroll: the consumption of musical places'. NORTH WEST GEOGRAPHER, 2 :4-14. [Full-Text]
1999 Freundschuh, S.M. and Kitchin, R. (1999) 'Contemporary thought and practice in cognitive mapping research: an introduction'. Professional Geographer, 51 :507-510. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1998 Kitchin, R. (1998) '“Out of place”, “knowing one’s place”: Towards a spatialised theory of disability and social exclusion'. Disability and Society, 13 :343-356. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1998 Kitchin, RM (1998) 'Towards geographies of cyberspace'. Progress in Human Geography, 22 :385-406. [Full-Text]
1998 Kitchin, R. and Fotheringham, A.S. (1998) 'Spatial and location cueing effects upon cognitive mapping data'. Environment and Planning A, 30 :2245-2253. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1998 Kitchin, R., Shirlow, P. and Shuttleworth, I. (1998) 'On the margins: Disabled people’s access to and experiences of employment in Donegal, West Ireland'. Disability and Society, 13 :785-806. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1998 Kitchin R.; Jacobson R.; Golledge R.; Blades M. (1998) 'Belfast without sight: Exploring geographies of blindness'. Irish Geography, 31 (1):34-46. [Full-Text]
1998 Jackson, P. and Kitchin, R. (1998) 'Editorial: Applying Cognitive Mapping Research'. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 18 :219-221. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R., Blades, M. and Golledge, R.G. (1997) 'Understanding spatial concepts at the geographic scale without the use of vision'. Progress in Human Geography, 21 :225-242. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R., Blades, M. and Golledge, R.G. (1997) 'Relations between psychology and geography'. ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR, 29 :554-573. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R. and Jacobson, R.D. (1997) 'Techniques to collect and analyze the cognitive map knowledge of persons with visual impairment or blindness: issues of validity'. 91 :393-400. [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R. and Fotheringham, A.S. (1997) 'Aggregation issues in cognitive mapping research'. Professional Geographer, 49 :269-280. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Jacobson, R.D. and Kitchin, R. M. (1997) 'GIS and people with visual impairments or blindness: Exploring the potential for education, orientation and navigation'. Transactions in GIS, 2 :315-332. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R. (1997) 'Exploring spatial thought'. ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR, 29 :123-156. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1996 Kitchin, R. (1996) 'Are there sex differences in geographic knowledge and understanding?'. Geographical Journal, 162 :273-286. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1996 Kitchin, R. (1996) 'Methodological convergence in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge'. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16 :163-185. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1996 Halfacree, K.H. & Kitchin, R. (1996) '‘Madchester Rave On’: placing the fragments of popular music'. Area, 28 :49-55. [Full-Text]
1996 Kitchin, R. (1996) 'Exploring approaches to computer cartography and spatial analysis in cognitive mapping research: CMAP and MiniGASP prototype packages'. Cartographic Journal, 33 :51-55. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1996 Kitchin, R. (1996) 'Increasing the integrity of cognitive mapping research: appraising conceptual schemata of environment-behaviour interaction'. Progress in Human Geography, 20 :56-84. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1994 Kitchin, R. (1994) 'Cognitive maps: what are they and why study them?'. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14 :1-19. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1994 Kitchin, R. (1994) 'Semiotics, Marxism, and spatial conception: a new paradigm?'. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14 (1):83-85. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1993 Kitchin, R. (1993) 'Bringing psychology and geography closer'. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 13 (2):183-186. [DOI] [Full-Text]

Other Journal

Year Publication
2019 Kitchin, R., Dawkins, O. and Young, G. (2019) 'Prospects for an intelligent planning system' Planning Theory and Practice, 20 (4) :595-599. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'The ethics of smart cities' RTE Brainstorm, . [Link]
2018 Rose-Redwood, R; Kitchin, R; Rickards, L; Rossi, U; Datta, A; Crampton, J (2018) 'The uneven terrain of dialogical encounters and the spatial politics of listening' DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 8 :160-167. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Kitchin, R. (2018) 'Disruptive 3D geospatial technologies for planning and managing cities' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Spotlight . [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) 'How vulnerable are smart cities to cyber-attack?' Councils Journal, . [Link]
2017 Kitchin, R. and Schechtner, K. (2017) 'Bridging the adoption gap for smart city technologies: An interview with Rob Kitchin' IEEE Pervasive Computing, 16 (2) :72-75. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'Geographers matter! Doreen Massey (1944-2016)' Social and Cultural Geography, 17 (6) :813-817. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and McArdle, G. (2015) 'Urban indicators and dashboards: epistemology, contradictions and power/knowledge' Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2 (1) :43-45. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'Datagestuurde stedelijke planning en ‘smart cities’' Justitiële Verkenningen, 2016 (3) :23-36. [Link] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'Urban Big Data' The Planner, . [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Spatial big data and the era of continuous geosurveillance' DIS Magazine, . [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Grounding urban data' New Geographies, 7 :109-116. [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'What does big data mean for official statistics?' Discover Magazine, . [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'The promise and peril of smart cities' IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, . [Link] [Full-Text]
2002 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2002) 'New cartographies to chart cyberspace' Geoinformatics, :38-41. [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R.M.; M Dodge (2002) 'Mapping cyberspace' Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, 36 :1-6. [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R. (2001) 'Disability and inclusive landscapes' Teaching Geography, 26 :81-85. [Full-Text]
2001 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2001) 'Ways to map cyberspace' Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design, . [Full-Text]
1999 Kitchin, R. (1999) 'Mapping disabled access' Ireland and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, (Aut/Winter) :7-9. [Full-Text]
1996 Kitchin, R. (1996) 'Access to the Internet' IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70 :10-11. [Full-Text]
1995 Jacobson, R.D.; Kitchin, R. (1995) 'Assessing the configurational knowledge of people with visual impairments or blindness' Swansea Geographer, 32 :14-24. [Full-Text]
1995 Kitchin, R.; Sykes, L. (1995) 'Invisible geography on the Internet' Geographical Magazine, (November) :22-24. [Full-Text]
1995 Kitchin, R. (1995) 'Investigating the cognitive strategies of spatial thought' Irish Historical Studies, 32 :71-78. [Full-Text]
1995 Kitchin, R. (1995) 'Stranger bedfellows: geography and psychology' Social Policy and Administration, (September) . [Full-Text]
1994 Kitchin, R. (1994) 'Spatial familiarity as a variable in cognitive mapping' The Irish Franciscans, 1534-1990, 31 :42-52. [Full-Text]
1993 Kitchin, R. (1993) 'Using bidimensional regression to analyse cognitive maps' The history of the Irish book, vol. 3: The Irish book in English, 1550-1800, 30 :33-50. [Full-Text]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2023 Kitchin, R. (2023) 'Geosurveillance and society' In: The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. [Link]
2023 Burns, R., Fast, V., Kitchin, R. and Mackinnon, D. (2023) 'Data Decisioning and Data Justice: A Dialogue with Rob Kitchin' In: Digital (In)justice in the Smart City. Toronto : University of Toronto Press.
2022 Kitchin, R. (2022) 'Decentring smart cities' In: Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future. Bristol : Intelllect Books.
2022 Zawadski, T. and Kitchin, R. (2022) 'Building 3D and XR city systems on multi-platform devices' In: Design of User Interfaces with a Data Science Approach. Hershey, PA : IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9121-5.ch002
2021 Dawkins, O., Kitchin, R., Young, G. and Zawadzki, T. (2021) 'City dashboards and 3D geospatial technologies for urban planning and management' In: Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management. London : Sage.
2020 Kitchin, R.; Coletta, C.; McArdle, G. (2020) 'Governmentality and urban control' In: The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities. London : Routledge.
2020 Kitchin, R. (2020) 'Urban science: Prospect and critique' In: The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities. London : Routledge.
2020 Kitchin, R. (2020) 'A marginal contribution to the pandemic response?' In: Global Data Justice and COVID-19. London : Meatspace Press.
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'Ghost estates' In: The A-Z of the Celtic Tiger. Dublin : Peter Lang.
2019 Leszczynski, A.; Kitchin, R. (2019) 'The seduction of UberCity' In: How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London : Meatspace Press.
2019 Graham, M.; Kitchin, R.; Mattern, S.; Shaw,, J. (2019) 'Introduction' In: How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London : Meatspace Press.
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'Space and spatiality' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford : Elsevier.
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'You’re entitled to what the data says you deserve' In: How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London : Meatspace Press.
2019 Kitchin, R; Coletta, C; Evans, L; Heaphy, L; Mac Donncha, D (2019) 'Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats' In: PLANNING AND KNOWLEDGE: HOW NEW FORMS OF TECHNOCRACY ARE SHAPING CONTEMPORARY CITIES. BRISTOL : POLICY PRESS.
2019 Kitchin, R., Cardullo, P. and di Feliciantonio, C. (2019) 'Citizenship, Social Justice and the Right to the Smart City' In: The Right to the Smart City. Bingley : Emerald.
2019 Kitchin, R. (2019) 'Towards a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism' In: The Right to the Smart City. Bingley : Emerald.
2018 Kitchin R. (2018) 'Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities' In: Creating Smart Cities. [DOI]
2018 Kitchin R.; Coletta C.; Heaphy L. (2018) 'Actually existing smart dublin: Exploring smart city development in history and context' In: Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation. [DOI]
2018 Dodge M.; Kitchin R. (2018) 'The challenges of cybersecurity for smart cities' In: Creating Smart Cities. [DOI]
2018 Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L. and Heaphy, L. (2018) 'Creating smart cities: Introduction' In: Creating Smart Cities. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2018 Kitchin, R. (2018) 'Governance' In: Digital Geographies. London : Sage.
2018 Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2018) 'Introducing digital geographies' In: Digital Geographies. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2018 Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2018) 'Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work' In: Thinking Big Data in Geography. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press.
2018 Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2018) 'Digital data and data infrastructures' In: Digital Geographies. London : Sage.
2018 Hearne, R., O'Callaghan, C., Di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (2018) 'The relational articulation of housing crisis and activism in post-crash Dublin, Ireland' In: Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. New York : Rowman & Littlefield.
2017 Kitchin R.; Lauriault T.; McArdle G. (2017) 'Data and the city' In: Data and the City. [DOI]
2017 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M.W. (2017) 'Introducing spatial media' In: Understanding Spatial Media. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin R. (2017) 'Data-driven urbanism' In: Data and the City. [DOI]
2017 Kitchin R.; McArdle G. (2017) 'Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues' In: Data and the City. [DOI]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) 'Big data - hype or revolution?' In: The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P., and McArdle, G. (2017) 'Indicators, benchmarking and urban informatics' In: Understanding Spatial Media. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) 'Leveraging finance and producing capital' In: Understanding Spatial Media. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) 'Big data' In: The International Encyclopedia of Geography. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R., Hearne, R. and O’Callaghan, C. (2016) 'Housing' In: Austerity and Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
2016 Kitchin, Rob and Perng, Sung-Yueh (2016) 'Code and the city: introduction' In: Code and the City. London : Routledge. [DOI]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) 'From a single line of code to an entire city: Reframing the Conceptual Terrain of Code/Space' In: Code and the City. London : Routledge. [DOI]
2015 Kitchin R. (2015) 'Cognitive Maps' In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. [DOI]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Housing' In: The Atlas of the Island of Ireland. Belfast : AIRO/ICLRD. [Full-Text]
2015 Crowley, U. and Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Academic ‘truth’ and perpetuation of negative attitudes and intolerance towards Travellers in Contemporary Ireland' In: Tolerance and Diversity in Ireland, North and South. Manchester : Manchester University Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) 'Positivistic geography' In: Approaches in Human Geography. London : Sage. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin R.; Lauriault T.; McArdle G. (2015) 'Smart cities and the politics of urban data' In: Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Boyle M.; Kitchin R. (2014) 'Diaspora-centred development: Current practice, critical commentaries, and research priorities' In: Global Diasporas and Development: Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Dr Rory Hearne, Dr Rob Kitchin, Dr Cian O Callaghan (2014) 'Spatial Justice and Housing in Ireland' In: Kearns, Meredith and Morrissey(Eds.). Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis. : Royal Irish Academy. [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) 'Explanation/Understanding' In: Introducing Human Geographies. London : Arnold.
2014 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2014) 'Barcodes and RFIDs' In: Globalization in Practice. Oxford : Oxford University Press. [Full-Text]
2014 Lee, R., Castree, N., Kitchin, R., Lawson, V., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Radcliffe, S., Roberts, S. and Withers, C. (2014) 'Introduction' In: The Sage Handbook of Human Geography. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2014 Lee R.; Elwood S.; Castree N.; Roberts S.; Kitchin R. (2014) 'Editors discussion' In: The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography: Two Volume Set. London : Sage. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2013) 'Diaspora for development: In search of a new generation of diaspora strategies' In: How Can Talent Abroad Induce Investment at Home? Towards a Pragmatic Diaspora Agenda. Washington DC : Migration Policy Institute. [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R., Boyle, M. and Ancien, D. (2013) 'Ireland’s diaspora strategy: diaspora for development' In: Migrations: Ireland in a Global Ireland. Manchester : Manchester University Press. [Full-Text]
2012 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2012) 'Towards Touch-Free Spaces: Sensors, Software and the Automatic Production of Shared Public Toilets' In: Touching Space, Placing Touch. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R.; Perkins, C. (2011) 'Preface: Introducing The Map Reader' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Kitchin, R., Dodge, M. and Perkins, C. (2011) 'Conceptualising Mapping' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Perkins, C., Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2011) 'Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Dodge, M. Kitchin, R. and Perkins, C. (2011) 'Technologies of Mapping' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Perkins, C., Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2011) 'Cognition and Cultures of Mapping' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Kitchin, R., Dodge, M. and Perkins, C. (2011) 'Power and Politics of Mapping' In: The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Chichester : Wiley. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2010 Hubbard, P.; Kitchin, R. (2010) 'Preface to the Second Edition' In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London : Sage.
2010 Hubbard, P.; Kitchin, R. (2010) 'Why key thinkers?' In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2009 Kitchin, R; Perkins, C; Dodge, M (2009) 'Thinking about maps' In: RETHINKING MAPS. LONDON : ROUTLEDGE.
2009 Dodge, M; Perkins, C; Kitchin, R (2009) 'Mapping modes, methods and moments A manifesto for map studies' In: RETHINKING MAPS. LONDON : ROUTLEDGE.
2009 Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (2009) 'Foreword' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford : Elsevier. [Full-Text]
2009 Kitchin, R. (2009) 'Space' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford : Elsevier. [Full-Text]
2009 Kitchin, R. (2009) 'Looking at the present through the future: Science fiction and contingent and recursive, creative geographies' In: Milieus of Creativity. Dordrecht : Springer. [Full-Text]
2008 Crowley, U; Gilmartin, M; Kitchin, R (2008) 'Race and Immigration in Contemporary Ireland' In: NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF RACE AND RACISM. ALDERSHOT : ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD.
2008 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2008) 'Cybergeography' In: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. London : Sage. [DOI]
2008 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2008) 'Airport code/spaces' In: Aeromobilities: Theory and Research. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2007 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2007) 'Virtual places' In: A Companion Encyclopaedia to Geography. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R. (2007) 'Mapping Worlds: International Perspectives on Social and Cultural Geographies' In: Mapping Worlds: Social and Cultural Geographies. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R. and Bartley, B. (2007) 'Part intros' In: Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R(Eds.). Understanding Contemporary Ireland. London : Pluto Press. [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R. and Bartley, B. (2007) 'Ireland in the Twenty First Century' In: Understanding Contemporary Ireland. London : Pluto Press. [Full-Text]
2007 Kitchin, R. and Bartley, B. (2007) 'Ireland now and in the future' In: Understanding Contemporary Ireland. London : Pluto Press. [Full-Text]
2006 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2006) 'Net:Geography fieldwork Frequently Asked Questions' In: The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. The Netherlands : Springer. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2006 Kitchin, R. (2006) 'Positivistic geography and spatial science' In: Approaches to Human Geography. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2004 Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G. (2004) 'Editor’s Introduction' In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2004 Kitchin, R. M. (2004) 'Reginald Golledge' In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London : Sage. [Full-Text]
2004 Fuller, D. and Kitchin, R. (2004) 'Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Academic Geography Beyond the Academy?' In: Radical Theory, Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?. Canada : Praxis E-Press. [Link] [Full-Text]
2003 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2003) 'Charting movement: mapping internet infrastructures' In: Moving People, Goods and Information in the Twenty First Century: Urban Technology, the New Economy, and Cutting-Edge Infrastructure. New York : Spon Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Cheesman, J., Dodge, M., Harvey, F., Jacobson, D., and Kitchin, R. (2002) 'Other' Worlds : Augmented Comprehensible, Non-Material Spaces' In: Virtual Reality in Geography. London : CRC Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Jacobson, R.D., Kitchin, R. and Golledge, R.G. (2002) 'Multi-modal virtual reality for presenting geographic information' In: Virtual Reality in Geography. London : CRC Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2002) 'There's no there there: Virtual reality, space and geographic visualisation' In: Virtual Reality in Geography. London : CRC Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2002) 'Exploring the emerging geographies of cyberspace' In: Geographies of Global Change. Oxford : Blackwell. [Full-Text]
2002 Kneale, J. and Kitchin, R. (2002) 'Lost in space' In: Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction. London : Continuum. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2002 Brodlie, K., Dykes, J., Gillings, M., Haklay, M.E., Kitchin, R. and Kraak, M-J. (2002) 'Geography in VR : Context' In: Virtual Reality in Geography. London : CRC Press. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2001 Kitchin, R. (2001) 'Cognitive mapping' In: International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Oxford : Elsevier. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R. and Freundschuh, S.M. (2000) 'Introducing cognitive mapping' In: Kitchin, R. and Freundschuh, S(Eds.). Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R. (2000) 'Collecting and analysing cognitive mapping data' In: Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R. (2000) 'Environmental Psychology' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition. [Full-Text]
2000 Kitchin, R. and Freundschuh, S.M. (2000) 'Future cognitive mapping research' In: Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
1999 Kitchin, R. (1999) 'Ethics and morals in geographical studies of disability' In: Geography and Ethics: Journeys through a Moral Terrain. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R. (1997) 'Social transformations through spatial transformations: from geospaces to cyberspaces' In: Mapping Cyberspace: Social Research on the Electronic Frontier. New York : Dowling College Press. [Full-Text]

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2016 McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2016) First International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities; ISPRS Annals Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, III-4/W1 The Dublin Dashboard: Design and development of a real-time analytical urban dashboard Split, Croatia, 07/09/2016- 09/09/2016 [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Perng, Sung-Yueh and Kitchin, Rob (2015) Proceedings of MediaCity 5 Solutions, strategies and frictions in civic hacking [Link] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, R. (2002) 1st National Seminar on Disability: Using Emancipatory Methodologies in Disability Research Towards emancipatory and empowering disability research: Reflections on three participatory action research projects Dublin, 03/12/2002- [Full-Text]
1999 Kitchin, R.; Kneale, J. (1999) Cities in the Global Information Society Cities in the New Millennium: A View from Science Fiction Newcastle, 22/11/1999- 24/11/1999
1998 Jacobson, R.D.; Kitchin, R.; Golledge, R.G.; Blades, M. (1998) Proceedings of Mind III: Spatial Cognition Learning A Complex Urban Route Without Sight: Comparing Naturalistic versus Laboratory Measures Dublin, 17/08/1998- 19/08/1998 [Full-Text]

Gov. Report or Document

Year Publication
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) Getting smarter about smart cities: Improving data privacy and data security. Dublin: [Gov. Report or Document] [Link] [Full-Text]
2009 Ancien, D., Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2009) The Scottish Diaspora and Diaspora Strategy: Insights and Lessons from Ireland. [Gov. Report or Document] [Full-Text]

Editorial

Year Publication
2020 Rose-Redwood R.; Kitchin R.; Rossi U.; Rickards L.; Apostolopoulou E.; Buckley M.; Crampton J. (2020) Reflections on the first decade of Dialogues in Human Geography and the road ahead. [Editorial] [DOI]

Technical Publication

Year Publication
2015 Kitchin, R.; Collins, S.; Frost, D. (2015) Funding Models for Open Access Repositories. Dublin: [Technical Publication] [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.3318/DRI.2015.4 [Full-Text]
2009 Ancien, D., Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2009) Exploring Diaspora Strategies: An International Comparison. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
2009 Ancien, D., Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2009) Exploring Diaspora Strategies: Lessons for Ireland. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
2014 Coutard, O., Finnveden, G., Kabisch, S., Kitchin, R.., Matos, R., Nijkamp, P., Pronello, C. and Robinson, D. (2014) Urban Megatrends: Towards A European Research Agenda. Brussels: [Technical Publication] [Link] [Full-Text]
2011 Kitchin, R. and Boyle, M (2011) Diaspora Strategies in Transition States: Prospects and Opportunities for Armenia. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
2011 Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2011) A diaspora strategy for Canada? Enriching debate through heightening awareness of international practice. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
2009 Gleeson, J., Kitchin, R., Bartley, B. and Treacy, C. (2009) New Ways of Mapping Social Inclusion in Dublin City. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
2006 Egeraat, C. van, Kitchin, R., and O’Brien, M. (2006) Investing in Maynooth: The Prime Location for knowledge based activities. [Technical Publication]
2006 Bartley, B., Kitchin, R. and others of the Special European Union Programmes Body (SEUPB) (2006) Socio-Economic Profile of Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland. [Technical Publication]
2001 Golledge, R.G., Kitchin, R., Blades, M., Jacobson, D. (2001) Off route strategies for non-visual navigation. [Technical Publication]
1999 Kitchin, R.; Mulcahy, F. (1999) Disability, Access to Education, and Future Opportunities. Dublin: [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]

Working Paper

Year Publication
2023 Kitchin, R. (2023) Arts-based methods for researching digital life. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link]
2021 Kitchin, R. (2021) Decentring the smart city. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link]
2020 Kitchin, R. (2020) Using digital technologies to tackle the spread of the coronavirus: Panacea or folly?. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link]
2018 Kitchin, R., Cardullo, P. and di Feliciantonio, C. (2018) Citizenship, Social Justice and the Right to the Smart City. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2018 Kitchin, R. (2018) Towards a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2018 Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2018) Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: Up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Evans, L. and Kitchin, R. (2017) A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Fraser, A. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Slow computing. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) The timescape of smart cities. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R., Coletta, C. and McArdle, G. (2017) Urban informatics, governmentality and the logics of urban control. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and MacDonncha, D. (2017) Smart cities, urban technocrats, epistemic communities and advocacy coalitions. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. (2017) Urban science: A short primer. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2017) The (in)security of smart cities: vulnerabilities, risks, mitigation and prevention. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Perng, S-Y., Kitchin, R. and MacDonncha, D. (2017) Hackathons, entrepreneurship and the passionate making of smart cities. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Living Labs, vacancy, and gentrification. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2016 Coletta, C. and Kitchin, R. (2016) Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R.; Lauriault, T.P.; Wilson, M.W. (2016) Understanding spatial media. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2016) Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2016 Kitchin, R. (2016) Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities. [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Ash, J.; Kitchin, R.; Leszczynski, A. (2015) Digital turn, digital geography?. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R.; McArdle, G. (2015) The diverse nature of big data. [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 McArdle, G.; Kitchin, R. (2015) Improving the Veracity of Open and Real-Time Urban Data. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) Big data and official statistics: Opportunities, challenges and risks. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R. (2015) Data-driven, networked urbanism. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Perng, Sung-Yueh, Kitchin, Rob, Evans, Leighton (2015) Locative media and data-driven computing experiments. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R.; Hearne, R.; O’Callaghan, C. (2015) Housing in Ireland: From Crisis to Crisis. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kitchin, R., Maalsen, S.; McArdle, G. (2015) The Praxis and Politics of Building Urban Dashboards. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Perng, Sung-Yueh and Kitchin, Rob (2015) Solutions, Strategies and Frictions in Civic Hacking. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) Thinking critically about and researching algorithms. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2014) Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R. (2014) From a single line of code to an entire city: Reframing thinking on code and the city. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kitchin, R.; Lauriault, T.P. (2014) Small data, data infrastructures and big data. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kitchin, R. (2013) The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2011) Mapping experience: Crowdsourced cartography. [Working Paper] [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2010 Kitchin, R., Gleeson, J., Keaveney, K. and O'Callaghan, C. (2010) A Haunted Landscape: Housing and Ghost Estates in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2008 Boyle, Mark and Kitchin, Rob (2008) Towards an Irish Diaspora Strategy. [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2008 Dodge, Martin and Kitchin, Rob (2008) Software, objects and home space. [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2006 Dodge, Martin and Kitchin, Rob (2006) Code, vehicles and governmentality: The automatic production of driving spaces. [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2006 Crowley, Una and Gilmartin, Mary and Kitchin, Rob (2006) Vote Yes for Common Sense Citizenship”: Immigration and the Paradoxes at the Heart of Ireland’s ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’. [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2005 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2005) The ethics of forgetting in an age of pervasive computing. London: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2005 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2005) Codes of life: Identification codes and the machine-readable world. London: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2004 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2004) Code, space and everyday life. London: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2004 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2004) Net: Geography fieldwork frequently asked questions. London: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2002 Kitchin, Rob and Lysaght, Karen (2002) Queering Belfast: Some thoughts on the sexing of space. Maynooth: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
2001 Dodge, M.; Kitchin, R. (2001) Examining different approaches to mapping Internet infrastructure. London: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
1997 Kitchin, R. (1997) A geography of, for, with or by disabled people: Reconceptualising the position of geographer as expert. Belfast: [Working Paper] [Full-Text]
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Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2018 Maynooth University Research Achievement Award Maynooth University
01/01/2018 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Achievement Award Maynooth University
01/04/2015 Media Achievement Award Association of American Geographers
01/01/2015 Best paper prize in Regional Studies, Regional Science Regional Studies Association
01/01/2013 Gold Medal for the Social Sciences Royal Irish Academy
01/01/2012 Cantemir Prize Berendel Foundation
01/01/2011 Meridian Book Award Association of American Geographers
01/01/2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title American Library Association
01/01/2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title American Library Association