Robert Michael Kitchin[1] MRIA is an Irish geographer and academic.
The following year, he completed an MSc in geographical information systems at the University of Leicester and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by the University of Wales, Swansea,[2] for his thesis "Issues of validity and integrity in cognitive mapping research: investigating configurational knowledge".
In 1998, he was appointed a lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and was promoted to a senior lecturership in 2001.
[2] Between 2002 and 2013, he was also Director of NUI Maynooth's National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis.
[5] In 2013, Kitchin received the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal.