Claire Lucy Dwyer (24 December 1964 – 14 July 2019) was a British academic, geographer[1] and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019.
[3] Dwyer completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Nottingham, and taught at secondary schools in Warminster.[when?]
[3] Her Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1991 for a dissertation on state-funded Muslim schools in the United Kingdom.
[3] She then carried out her doctoral research at University College London;[4] supervised by Peter Jackson and Jacquie Burgess,[2] her PhD was awarded in 1997 for her thesis on the construction and contestations of Islam.
[5] Dwyer was a social geographer with research interests in "the intersections of migration and multiculturalism and geographies of religion and ethnicity".