Thrilled to be able to share that I am now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)! Teaching alongside my PhD has been an absolute privilege and a real highlight of the last three years - thank you to my wonderful references Dr Ross Jones and Dr Nerea Okong'O!

A great few weeks at UoM! Particularly in hosting a NWSSDTP writing retreat with @chloefoxrobertson.bsky.social and taking part in a ‘Meet the Veterans’ session with Master’s students. It was a pleasure to reflect on my experiences of doing research and to hear such enthusiasm for their projects!

📢 2nd Call for Papers! RGS-IBG 2026 Annual Conference: ‘Post-Foundational Geography in a Turbulent and Polarised World’ with @joeblakey.bsky.social and @matinakapsali.bsky.social A gentle reminder that our abstract deadline is this Friday (27th February). More details can be found below 👇

📢 CfP RGS-IBG 2026: Post-Foundational Geography in a Turbulent and Polarised World Please see the below for an exciting session with @joeblakey.bsky.social and @matinakapsali.bsky.social We look forward to receiving your submissions! Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

And that’s another semester done! 👏 I've had a wonderful semester celebrating my first publication, writing my second paper, teaching with @amycbarron.bsky.social and @profalibrowne.bsky.social, hosting a weekly departmental writing group, and sowing seeds for what life post-PhD might look like. 🌍🎓

How do you vote? Do you know why? @niamhnelson-owens.bsky.social suggests that everyday occurrences can have unexpected and yet profound affects on political behaviour. “Ordinary moments can be extraordinary in challenging power and creating new possibilities.” doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Grateful to EWPN for the invitation to speak about my @nwssdtp.bsky.social funded research on #FinTech gender inequalities at the Annual Conference at De Nederlandsche Bank. 🇳🇱 Thought-provoking discussions on inclusion, financial education, and the future of payments. 💵💡

Such a pleasure to spend this weekend (re)connecting, thinking, and collaborating at #IAVS2025 ! It was fantastic to learn from so many insightful sessions and hear reflections on my presentation. Huge thanks to the organisers for creating such a warm and inclusive space 💚

Is the use of Graphic imagery an effective street activism technique? Niamh Nelson-Owens takes us through a useful conceptual framework for figuring out #IAVS2025

#IAVS2025 Day 2 is underway! Such a great collection of papers today, this truly is my favourite weekend of the year

And we’re off! Our 6th annual vegan sociology conference starts today, still time to join us for a fab suite of vegan sociologies of emotions and the senses #IAVS2025

Looking forward to speaking at the International Association of Vegan Sociologists annual conference this weekend! I’ll be sharing a paper-in-progress on how encounters with graphic vegan street activism may ‘make a difference’. More info here 👉 www.vegansociology.com/conference/

How are political processes shaped by the small, everyday feelings and moments that most of us might not even notice? @manchester.ac.uk researcher @niamhnelson-owens.bsky.social examines how ordinary moments in day-to-day life can quietly drive political change 👉 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Excited to share that my first paper from my PhD has been published in Progress in Human Geography! It reads post-foundational political geography through affect, offering an expansive understanding of (extra)ordinary political processes and how they are felt beyond discourse and in nonlinear ways 💫

🎉 Congrats to @niamhnelson-owens.bsky.social on the publication of 'Towards an affective post-foundational political geography', which brings together literature on affect and post-foundational geography. A fantastic achievement for paper no.1 and a wonderful contribution. doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Fantastic to attend the 'Shaping the Future of Global Sustainability Policy' event this week! Featuring a thought-provoking panel and fantastic workshop hosted by Policy@Manchester, it was interesting to reflect on for whom is the evidence we, as academics, are creating actually useful? (1/2)

Very happy to share that this wonderful project is now out! It is such a joy to be featured among so many brilliant contributions reflecting on the promise of cultural geography. Mediated through an unfortunate school detention, I explore the concept of (a) promise and what this might mean...(1/2)

Making the most of the very blue sky at the moment (!) to join the conversation here. Looking forward to sharing bits of my PhD journey and life along the way, and staying in touch with lovely people here ☀️