Lovely review of Listening to Landscape from Andrea Povoni here: antipodeonline.org/2026/04/28/l...

As I have predicted elsewhere, UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment | Students | The Guardian share.google/393azuGQN8rX...

Housing sector leaders call for action to fill empty homes - BBC News share.google/ln63uCL3hliR...

Next Urban Salon event, open to all, 6th March @ucl.ac.uk www.eventbrite.be/e/book-launc...

Coming in March as part of theurbansalon.com series, book discussion about Cinema and the City in an era of Planetary Urbanisation with Nitin Bathia and responses from @hyunshin.bsky.social Myra Geogiou and Monica Degan. 10 March @lselondon.bsky.social

New paper on student housing and governmentality: planning and licensing law treating students as a population apart!

Are we really surprised student accommodation is so ridiculously expensive given student debt de facto supports an asset class which reaps profit for investors? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...

Our research on small homes looking at student housing too - especially as some Purpose Built Student Accommodation will end up being let to post-students! But is living in a small self-contained unit good for mental health? Are shared houses or HMO better? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are doing an online webinar on space standards and small homes in England for the Chartered Institute of Housing Jan 14th 1300. Register here >>> www.cih.org/events/small...

This highlights some of the obvious implications of densification and living small - no living room/lounge, no room for socialising, the end of the house party etc etc. @nospacelikehome.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Today I am remembering my former colleague Jo Bullard who has died at just 56. A very supportive, encouraging, assiduous geographer, it is impossible to imagine @lborogeog.bsky.social without her. I know her passing has affected many very deeply, my thoughts with them on day of her funeral. RIP.

Am hearing terrible news about closure of Leics Human Geography degree @ucu.org.uk a proud dept with strong research tradition! www.leicester.news/university-o...

Im speaking about our small homes research in an UGRG webinar about housing, gentrification and financialisation of property 31 October 1300-1400. cuhk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Housing #Inequality #Gentrification #planning @rgsibg.bsky.social

It's now a real thing. Hardback and expensive but hopefully in time floppy and cheap. Join us at the launch on 21st Nov in London - see Eventbrite for free tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-... @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @claypipemusic.bsky.social @ghostboxrecords.bsky.social

New open access paper on housing densification and the regulation of the 'shrinking' home in an increasingly neoliberal regulatory environment @kbrickell.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @jreades.bsky.social

New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social

I'm cited in here about the role of upscale student accommodation in the crisis of housing affordability in our major cities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ultra-v... #housing #gentrification www.nospacelikehome.study

Just realised 20 years since this was published: Hubbard, P. (2005). Accommodating otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege. Transactions of the institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 52-65. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In a nation full of bigotry, why should we engage with the work of musicians who are inspired by the English landscape? Is it possible to be critically nostalgic? kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/listening-...

Book Launch for Listening to Landscape, King's College 21 Nov 1900. Hauntology/psychogeography/music: free event with music from The Hardy Tree @claypipemusic.bsky.social & Stonecirclesampler with @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social plus Jim Jupp & Oliver Cherer. Grab tickets from Eventbrite, going fast!

Nice piece from Tim White on the housing crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The border spectacle. For our education? Amusement? Outrage? Whatever, I'm depressed this is being played out for cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some more stuff on fishing, Englishness and identity at the Kent coast here: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/oysters-ow...

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...

New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thu: i'm speaking about hauntology, gentrification and Englishness at this lovely little thing in Plymouth. Previewing some of stuff in my new book on hauntronica and music for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social "Listening to Landscape" (out Nov?) www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/confer....

Great to be part of a @legalgeolsa.bsky.social meet up yesterday where we organised, discussed and debated. Lots of great future plans for conferences, workshops and perhaps even a journal for Legal Geography. Watch this space! www.clg.place

Personal stress is not work related says theorist of neoliberal governmentality nation.cymru/news/most-st...

@REF2029 shameful. Will @ucu.org.uk act on news that we can sack people and still use their publications in the next REF? At a time of redundancies this is tone deaf at best! www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

Im speaking today at the London Boundary conference @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and to celebrate you can buy my book 30% off - all my royalty to Kent Refugee Action Network @_KRAN_

I'm keynote at 7th London International Boundary Conference, 12/13 June, talking about Borderlands: Identity and Belonging at Edge of England @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social student tx £15 including food/coffee www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com

Urban Salon event upcoming with @lorettaclees.bsky.social 20 June at LSE with @hyunshin.bsky.social - a must for those interested in gentrification and its displacements!

We teach a mix of UK, EU and International students on this masters - why not join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social in the dept of geography for this programme which offers critical perspectives on sustainable urbanism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4b...

I'll be talkiing to @laurieparsons.bsky.social about his new book Carbon Colonialism in Brighton next month. A great book, as the white admiral that landed on it yesterday can testify! ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/city-...

One for legal geographers: I flew over the A69 Castres - Toulouse motorway, 45% finished, at w/e. They stopped work on it in Feb when courts ruled the environmental costs outweigh the public interest. Goes to Senate tomorrow. MPs likely to override judicial authority: test case for environmental law

We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The British Medical Association describe the Supreme Court Ruling on Transgender ppl as "scientifically illiterate", "made without consultation with relevant experts & stakeholders", & will "cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary, & intersex communities". www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/b...

"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...

Job at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...

Nice to meet former Lboro student - and now Reader in Economic Geography - Allan Watson, in Southampton today. Walked the city in the unseasonal heat, justifying drinks stop.

"Cities and multiple nationalism" Urban Salon event at Northeastern University’s new London campus at Tower Bridge, 24 April, followed at 1930 by drinks Speakers: Liza Weinstein, Michael Gentile and Oren Yiftachel www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salo...

Nice Regional Studies @regstud.bsky.social webinar yesterday on legal geographies where i spoke alongside Luke Bennett, Athena Michalakea, and Jenny Kanellopoulou www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5b...

Solidarity with my former colleagues at university of Kent, currently a complete mess and haemorrhaging staff www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...

A difficult day for King's College as we remember student Aalia Mahomed who was tragically killed this time last week when a van driver entered the pedestrian precinct outside the College. Another two students were injured. A shocking event that has impacted a lot of students here.

£1.2bn in taxpayers' money have been spent on planning the lower Thames crossing. I reckon a couple of KCL masters students could have done a better job coming up with a scheme that reduces traffic at Dartford by more than 20% Just what is the point of this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AAG week. I went regularly 1994 fort worth to 2019 Washington. Good times, critical scholarship. No more though, the process of applying for ESTAs was bad enough before Mr trump's transphobic border reforms came into effect. No more aag for me I guess.

Interesting article on what happens when universities start seeking savings and lose sight of what a university is www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

I'm speaking next week Weds 26th 1300 at online RSA webinar "Legal Geography for Regions and Cities: A Place-first Approach' lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...