Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Out today @intellectbooks.bsky.social: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny' in the US today.

CFP for a session at RGS-IBG 2026 on the gendered labours of everyday ecological transformation, co-organised with @jennypickerill.bsky.social Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you are interested in eco-communities, particularly Tir y Gafel, Wales, please do consider pre-ordering this amazing photography book by Amanda Jackson ‘To Build A Home’ - stunning pictures from two amazing projects #eco-communities #photography

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

Chris Packham: Live at the Royal Geographical Society! Join us on Friday 26 September for an inspiring evening lecture with acclaimed TV presenter and environmental activist @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. 📍In London or online 🎟️ Tickets: £25 Book your place today 🔗 www.rgs.org/events/u...

Celebrating creativity at @rgsibg.bsky.social with @ella-hubbard.bsky.social amazing sewing - how many academic conferences have such fun activities + ‘outputs’?

Loved perusing the geography zines at the @rgsibg.bsky.social marque this morning - amazing political interventions

The @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference begins in Birmingham: 2,000+ attendees from over 72 countries. Excited to be here!

Don't miss our Geo Keynote tomorrow at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference! This panel brings our editors in conversation with Kathryn Yusoff, James Dyke, Ankit Kumar & Lynda Yorke on 'The Future of Environmental Geography'. 🕐14:40 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 (& online)

Our school is looking for a new Head of Department for Geography and Planning. Details below. @livunigeog.bsky.social @livuniplanning.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ551/h...

This week the first article from my PhD was published! This piece explores the belief that our planet is hurtling towards self-inflicted extinction. By working closely with Extinction Rebellion, I examine how demands to halt planetary extinction shape the future. doi.org/10.1111/tran... 🐞🌱

Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025! 📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18 📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.

OTHER PEOPLE: Dogs should not be on settees MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve

I had a nightmare last night that I was the only staff member left in my department + I had to teach all 5 degrees by myself + when I complained I got sent on a resilience training course … in case you are wondering what British higher education feels like right now

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"There is nobody within government looking at the university system as a whole and thinking, ‘What do we want this to achieve, both for students but also for the country?' ... But is it easier [for ministers] to just watch incrementally universities go to the wall on a slow burn basis?"

📣 join us! We are advertising a 0.6 PT lectureship in #InternationalRelations for 18 months. Closing date 27 July ⬇️ jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Universi...

Anyone else experiencing peri-menopause as a release? Not withstanding the pain, surge of hormones etc, I am now enjoying a lightness + freedom from this major transition

If you’re attending the Communities Conference at Canon Frome Court on 12th July then don't miss the session by author @jennypickerill.bsky.social on #EcoCommunities! 🕘 10.30am Register 🎟️ bit.ly/3I4dxW1 Find out more about Jenny’s book 📗 bit.ly/3ZXwcJd

Just completed 3 days of training on how to be a Group Coach with Catalyst14, + am buzzing on how useful it will be in universities. Learning group dynamics, listening skills, + how to create the conditions for generative dialogue seem like vital skills for all right now!

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

First day as Vice President of Research & Higher Education @rgsibg.bsky.social. Looking forward to representing academic geographers + all our activities. My first Council meeting today - lots to learn!

If you are in Devon please come along to the launch of my book Eco-Communities at Bowden Pillars Future + join the conversation about how we create, build + live in eco-communities

Excited to share that my new collaborative book - Eco-communities - is now published with Bloomsbury + open access We examine eco-communities worldwide through questions of transformative possibilities, inclusion, collective governance + diverse economics Please read + share!

Now published! Universities Degraded, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, reveals the scale of job losses in UK universities, exposes employer practices & shares testimonies of those made redundant & their colleagues. Warning: some of the content is distressing. zenodo.org/records/1563...

Our Mapping Hope zine is published! We explore global environmental challenges + suggest responses which are socially just. Created collectively by undergraduate students @sheffielduni.bsky.social from the School of Geography + Planning. We made this as another way to share their essay ideas

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...

And here's a petition regarding redundancies across the whole university: www.change.org/p/stop-compu...

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Those in the UK who care about trans inclusion + equality please take part in the latest consultation to ensure that the latest Supreme Court decision on gender identity does not undermine trans rights + inclusive approaches to ‘sex’ @prideineducation.bsky.social

New article! Feeling the trouble: comic politics in times of ecological crises by Lars Tønder gives a novel account of how comic politics can inspire ecological care. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Energised by a 3 hour zine making workshop with my environmental justice students. Inspired by their creativity + enthusiasm. Our collaborative zine ‘Mapping Hope’ will be published soon! First time I have led this as a teaching activity + everyone seemed to love it. Am happy to share instructions

My dilemma today is - is it even possible to complete my marking without being fuelled by snacks, sugar + treats? I really want to maintain my newly healthy approach to eating, but I had failed to account for marking season pressures

CALLING FOR SUPPORT - geographers @newcastleuni.bsky.social are facing compulsory redundancy. ALL geography professors have been placed at risk, with a quota that 2 out of the 20 must go. Others also at risk. Please help make these harsh + unnecessary cuts publicly known. #StoptheCuts to British HE

A fantastic two days at LSE exploring the Housing Squeeze + shrinking domesticities. Sharing + discussing some great papers + then identifying the emerging key themes in a zine - publically available soon! #tinyhomes

A morning well spent on the picket line at Sheffield Uni. Let’s care more and cut less, stop redundancies, and build sustainable funding for higher education. We need teaching and research now more than ever @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Spending my Saturday banner painting calling on HE leaders to rethink staff redundancies at Sheffield University + all British Universities, with @ucu.org.uk. We need a strong research + education sector more now than ever #ProtectEducationNow #UCU

The @geographicalassoc.bsky.social launched a consultation our developing 2025-30 strategy at #GAConf25. & everyone is invited to contribute on the link below. We've already had loads of feedback & welcome your comments too. More info & how to respond ⬇️ geography.org.uk/ga-strategy-...

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!! We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism. Pls share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised. Deadline 6th May 2025 Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

Say it enough, and they will believe anything.

Don't do it ... no cuts in higher education

Todays escape to the woods

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography (esp. urban and political geography) @rhulgeography.bsky.social. Salary: £49,325 p.a. Application deadline: 2 May 2025. Starting date: c. 1 September 2025. Details: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...