Facts: - known for: critical geographer - workplaces: oxford university - name: sarah whatmore - nationality: british - alma mater: university college london Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sarah whatmore -lrb- geographer -rrb- .
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sarah whatmore , fba facss is a professor of environment and public policy at oxford university and from 2012 , head of school .she received her phd in geography in 1988 at university college london , and previously taught for 12 years at bristol university and briefly at the open university .in 2014 she was elected a fellow of the british academy .whatmore is a critical geographer , questioning marxist materialist approaches in favour of actor-network theory and feminist science studies .her approach , laid out in her 2002 book '' hybrid geographies '' , attempts to develop what she terms '' more than human '' modes of inquiry , and question the relationship between science and democracy .'' hybrid geographies '' has been cited over 1,000 times .her ideas have been well received by critical theorists , but less so by policy-oriented environmental thinkers and traditional geographers less inclined to '' theorise '' human-environment relationships .