📣 Join the RGS Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) for the first in our 'Emerging Voices in Economic Geography' webinar series on Thursday, 20 Nov at 1pm GMT/8am ET featuring Ifigeneia Dimitrakou & Tim White who will each discuss their work on Housing. Register here: lnkd.in/ehK_MG_M

Newcastle Geography is now on Bluesky! Follow the department to hear about what's new, what we're excited about, and all the great research and teaching that keeps us busy! @ncl-geography.bsky.social And a starter pack of NCL geographers go.bsky.app/GEt9bGr

A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.

Caitlin Henry and I were recently interviewed for this story based on our research into private equity investment in healthcare which explores whose sickness provides profit, where and how care is provisioned, and what impacts this form of investment has on the quality of healthcare and life.

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

New Online 1st Book Review “Outside the Law, But Inside Capital: Tracing Profit in Everyday Economies” by Araby Smyth and Jessa Loomis doi.org/10.1177/2043...

The BNPL story on 'cute debt' in The Atlantic also featured on Marketplace (min 16:34).

Do you use buy-now-pay-later services? Dr @jessaloomis.bsky.social comments on the rise of so-called 'Cute Debt' and how it is mainly female shoppers who are being pushed towards these services >> bit.ly/4lMdVXo

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social

Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇

Gig nursing platforms are 100% killing patients:

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You can add your support to the thousands contesting the threat of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University - www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.

A fantastic, collegial department (w/ the highest QS ranking in the Uni) just had the majority of Professors be threatened with redundancy. Newcastle geographers will obvi fight for our colleagues & the future of higher ed (& geography!) with all we've got, but SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY VERY WELCOME!

Seeing yet more stories of unis moving to compulsory redundancy, with Geography colleagues (and of course others) at risk. Today, it's Newcastle Uni, a department that produces incredible scholarship with a vibrant culture. Sharing in solidarity x www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

The RGS Economic Geography Research Group invites submissions to our annual PhD thesis prize (deadline 31 May for PhDs completed Jan-Dec 2024) and undergraduate dissertation prize (15 July for 2025 degrees). Prize winners will recieve £100. Further details here: egrg.org/2025/04/09/e...

Just now back from a wonderful undergraduate field course exploring 'emotional geographies of the city' in Vienna and Bratislava. An absolute pleasure to get to 'do' geography with our second year students, and to hear their insights and reflections throughout the week! @newcastleuni.bsky.social

A busy and colourful picket in warm spring sun @newcastleucu.bsky.social with lots of support from passers-by, all here to fight compulsory redundancies and wider threats to the university.

Very much looking forward to our new MA Global Sustainable Futures starting in September, bringing core geography concepts (social justice, sustainability, power, etc) into conversation with debates about key global challenges - more info and how to apply here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag

Are you thinking & writing about how geographers know and study the economy? The Economic Geography Research Group invites 'lightening talks' that think critically and creatively about the future of our subdiscipline. See our CFP for the 2025 RGS-IBG Conference below👇 egrg.org/2025/01/21/c...

Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the £500 EGRG travel award for the Global Conference on Economic Geography is TODAY, 6 January 2025. *The award is for an early career scholar (or someone on a fixed-term contract) who is currently based in the UK or received a degree from a UK university*

Money flows like mercury - spatially & socially! 'Silicon Savannah' is often hailed as start-up success story. Scrutinizing the demographics of VC flows suggests a highly uneven social geography of start-up money. We offer some numbers & great visuals on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The wonderful editors at City asked me to write an editorial for the latest issue. Here is what I had to say about Cities, computation and capitalism: doi.org/10.1080/1360... (lots of wonderful work I didn't have space to cite, but I hope it furthers a broader conversation and action)

Together with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, @lupemoreno.bsky.social, @kremers.bsky.social & I are organising a conference on "Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research" at GU Frankfurt on 3–4 July 2025 aimed at exploring methods for studying finance. Check out the CfP: tinyurl.com/3jbshp49

The Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG just announced a £500 travel award for an early career and/or precariously employed scholar attending the Global Conference on Economic Geography in June 2025. Deadline 6 January. Details and application here: forms.office.com/e/Px5Eg1u6n4...

Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

We're looking for 4 new associate editors to join the editorial board of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Application due soon, details below👇

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

📢 #GCEG2025 Call for Papers📢 Gordon Tan and I are organising a paper session on '#FinTech and Geographies of Everyday Life' at the 7th GCEG, 4-8 June 2025, Clark University. Please submit abstracts by 7 Jan 2025 and share with your networks 🙌 aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/sol...

Sweden, the "model of a welfare state", employs a fraud prediction algorithm that discriminates against vulnerable groups. Another episode of welfare surveillance reported by @lhreports.bsky.social with @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Thrilled to see this paper with @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social & Arjen van der Heide out in @econsocjournal.bsky.social! Will post a thread post carnival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

This paper on the political economy of climate risk models—or, the huge market for climate data and risk analytics which influence major financial institutions—is so damn good. Crystal clear explainer with incisive critical analysis, by @madisoncondon.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Whoa neat job alert: The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Critical Data Studies and Computational Social Science at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 15, 2025.

🚨 JOB ALERT - Come work with me on #offshorefinance and #geopolitics!! There's a #postdoc opening in my Freigeist Research Group at Freie Universität #Berlin. 100%, 2 years. 🗓 Deadline: 16.12.2024 Details: lnkd.in/ee5_MWpp P.S. Sharing is caring 🎁 www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Our paper "Defining climate finance justice" is out now, open access. @laurla11.bsky.social agsci.source.colostate.edu/research-pap...

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

📢Join the TIBG team!📢 We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board. We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

I'm hiring a senior economist for the @neweconomics.bsky.social social policy team to lead our work on social security & work Looking for someone with great quantitative skills, subject knowledge & influencing savvy 💷 £52k pa for a 32hr week 📅 Apply by 25 November neweconomics.org/about/work-w...

Area was founded in 1969 as a bulletin for the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) - here's an interesting opportunity for a funded PhD looking into Geography's disciplinary history through the IBG conferences ⬇️

The core of this is an underappreciated point: unity is the outcome of, not the precondition for, a political programme to improve lives. The New Deal coalition resulted from the New Deal, it didn't cause it. Solidarity arises from working together, not from everyone reading from the correct hymnal.

CFP AAG 2025: Affective Entanglements with Real Estate and Housing. David Hugill and I invite contributions for a session exploring how intimate & interpersonal relations shape transactions in housing, property and land. CFP below. Abstracts due Oct 16. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Researching digital financial practices, fintech use, or financial life on social media? @desireefields.bsky.social and I are organising a session on 'Platform(ed) Financial Subjectivity' at the AAG Conference in Detroit, March 2025. CFP below. Abstracts by Oct 20. docs.google.com/document/d/1...