📣CFP-RGS 2026 -OUT OF OFFICE: GEOGRAPHIES OF LEAVE This session explores the relationship between paid work and leave, broadly framed as periods of time away from paid employment. For more details visit www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #RGS2026

📣CFP-RGS 2026 -OUT OF OFFICE: GEOGRAPHIES OF LEAVE This session explores the relationship between paid work and leave, broadly framed as periods of time away from paid employment. For more details visit www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #RGS2026

📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

I am looking for somewhere to lodge in along the A48 Lydney to Newnham area or A449 towards Worcester... preferably from 23rd of November for four months... Can anyone help? Or connect me with someone who rents out rooms in the area?

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... Love this very Welsh response to to recent fascist flag nonsense

Really enjoying revisting Peter Conrad's excellent radio series 21st Century Mythodologies www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... . Following Roland Barthes, Conrad offers objects representative of culture (in 2014) by skillfully weaving mythological, historical, religious, and contemporary references.

What does it feel like to be paid not to work? In a new paper I discuss the experiences of furloughed workers I interviewed from across the UK. My study revealed that, for some, furlough became a disorientating experience. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @rgsibg.bsky.social

Totally hooked on #Shifty onBBCIplayer.Documentary essay of changes in Britain since 1980 constructed as a patchwork of footage of the time.It weaves the seeds of things which have become the norm with events & attitudes of the time & underpinned by the effects of Conservative economic experiments

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Living a "shadow life": The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough' by @victoriajejones.bsky.social This paper contributes to understandings of the lived experiences of furlough and time out of work. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Honoured that the RGS-IBG have highlighted my research paper 'Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough' on their website. www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

I've had quite a few potential PhD applicants contact me in recent weeks, which is probably more so a the sign of an unstable economy as it is about shared research interests. But I've found this @rgsibg.bsky.social guide to applying for a PhD a useful resource www.rgs.org/choose-geogr...

What does it feel like to be paid not to work? In a new paper I discuss the experiences of furloughed workers I interviewed from across the UK. My study revealed that, for some, furlough became a disorientating experience. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @rgsibg.bsky.social

This looks super interesting!

Here is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING. Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism. Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.) More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages. READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. imbricate.press/book/capacit...

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We're the Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion (IESI) at the University of Sunderland. Our research tackles socio-economic exclusion, precarious communities, inclusive growth, and equality of opportunity. Follow us for insights on building a more inclusive society!

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

#Waiting to get some papers out... until then my PhD thesis 'Waiting Through Furlough: A Geography of Disorientation' explores the multiple forms of #disorientation experienced by furloughed workers whose sense of agency was affected when their worklife paused during COVID-19 etheses.dur.ac.uk/15387

Special addition call out for contributions for 'The Visual Arts and Sustainable Agriculture in Britain' from my colleague Rupert Ashmore www.mdpi.com/journal/arts...

Can you help me??? I am looking for interesting actor network theory diagrams... particularly examples that relate to film, graphic design, performance or architecture....

I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me at UVA on a project about youth (18-25) financial cultures, literacies, and well-being in the digital environment. Please share widely! Deadline is rolling. virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...

Does anyone know of Harvard referencing exercises for students who've never used Harvard? I am looking for games/exercises that can be used in a pair or small group.

Does anyone know of Harvard referencing exercises for students who've never used Harvard? I am looking for games/exercises that can be used in a pair or small group.

Recommend the Brasilia of the North exhibition in Newcastle...exploration of Newcastle's imagined futures through brutalist architecture...although some are now past memories as they already been demolished...(not sure about the glitchy photography though...) www.farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/bra...

Judging by the recent follows I've been having, feels like Blue Sky social is finally populating... :)

I caught an exhibition of the life & work of Vera Selby @northumbriauni.bsky.social University. A world champion snooker player, equality campaigner, textile artist & educator & someone with great hand-eye co-ordination! A good example of how it is possible to excel at more than one thing :)

A small insight of my PhD study... theconversation.com/how-being-fu...

CFP @RGS_IBG @SCGRG_RGS #rgsibg2024 2nd call CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF DISORIENTATION Looking for papers that explore disorientation from all angles... from the mundane to the devastating. Details victoriajejones.blogspot.com/2024/01/rgs-... Deadline 12/05/2024 Image: www.clarechapman.com

Call For Papers #RGS2024 'CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF DISORIENTATION' for more details, visit... ac2024.exordo.com/panels/86/co... Image: Clare Chapman www.clarechapman.com

Call For Papers #RGS2024 'CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF DISORIENTATION' for more details, visit... ac2024.exordo.com/panels/86/co... Image: Clare Chapman www.clarechapman.com

#CallForPapers @RGS_IBG 2024 .... for our session 'Contemporary Forms of Disorientation' ... we are looking for work that opens up the forms and conditions of disorientation that emerge in the contemporary contexts of neoliberal life and everyday geopolitics... for more details...

#CallForPapers @RGS_IBG 2024 .... for our session 'Contemporary Forms of Disorientation' ... we are looking for work that opens up the forms and conditions of disorientation that emerge in the contemporary contexts of neoliberal life and everyday geopolitics... for more details...

Come and join us in Cardiff! We are advertising for a four-year lectureship in human geography with a focus on development geographies/environment and development. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Application deadline is 2nd Jan 2024.

Mai Taha and I are planning to submit a linked panel to the 2024 #BRISMES conference on: "The Idea of Home: Politics, Matter and Imaginaries". We are looking for a few more abstracts to complete our panels. Check the abstract below (Deadline Dec 9) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Congratulations to Leah Edwards on her paper exploring parent child interaction as a worlding that can open up ecological discussion www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to announce a new open-access journal, Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, to be published by Cardiff University Press. I am managing editor, along with Angharad Closs Stephens, Mitch Rose, and Marcus Doel. Each issue will be edited by a team of postgraduate / early career researchers.

To contribute to #artistsforgaza visit Charlotte Brisland's instagram www.instagram.com/p/CzQjcJ4I9T...

Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov

We have a new job opening at Sheffield Geography - Lectureship in Human Geography, open-ended, deadline 24th October 2023

📷 'The Girl in the Antler Mask'  @northseanavigator.bsky.social Unfurl your seven misshapen wings. www.wheremeadows.com/paul-atten-a... #blackandwhitephotography #dark #ontology #myth #psychogeography #analoguephotography #filmphotography #film #grain #hplovecraft #lovecraftian #chthulucene #art

Lots of debts to loads of people who heard me speak about kites and glitches for the past 3 years, and to Azza, especially. New article just out with EPD on reading the city through a glitch. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758231196414

Interview between geography interested artists Suzie Campbell and Iain Biggs www.placeinternational.co.uk/post/another...

any academics in/around london know if their dept needs a postgrad tutor? i'm open to be hired and paying london rent is hard!