Doreen Massey (1944 - 2016) was a geographer, theorist and political activist. She was widely renowned for her work on globalisation, cities and reconceptualisation of place. She was widely renowned for her work on globalisation, cities and reconceptualisation of place. Her sophisticated yet accessible work on spatial divisions of labour, on how place is gendered, and on the complexities of space were influential across the social sciences and humanities where she was awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud ('the Nobel Prize for Geography') in 1998. She co-founded Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture in 1995 with Michael Rustin and Stuart Hall.