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Jenny Pickerill

@jennypickerill.bsky.social
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Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
timeshighereducation.com
The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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.
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Ophélie Véron @drophelieveron.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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CFP RGS-IBG 2026
— Call for Papers — The Gendered Labours of Everyday Ecological Transformation RGS–IBG Annual International Conference 2026 Organisers: Jenny Pickerill (Sheffield, UK) and Ophélie Véron (TU Berlin, ...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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To Build A Home - Amanda Jackson
*** Available to pre-order *** Book releases Dec 2025 70pp / 250 x 210mm Softcover 350gsm Colorplan cover 170gsm Satin text First edition TBC...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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!
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 03/09/2025
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...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Celebrating creativity at @rgsibg.bsky.social with @ella-hubbard.bsky.social amazing sewing - how many academic conferences have such fun activities + ‘outputs’?
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Loved perusing the geography zines at the @rgsibg.bsky.social marque this morning - amazing political interventions
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference begins in Birmingham: 2,000+ attendees from over 72 countries. Excited to be here!
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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)
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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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...
jobs.ac.uk
Head of Department for Geography and Planning - Grade 10 at University of Liverpool
Explore an exciting academic career as a Head of Department for Geography and Planning - Grade 10. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Amy Robson @amyrobson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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... 🐞🌱
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The belief that we have to act now to avoid a future lost knowingly to self-inflicted extinction operates through what I term ‘the extinction script’. As a technology of power that regulates climate ...
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
OTHER PEOPLE: Dogs should not be on settees MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve
Red fox Labrador dog lying on its back on a sofa looking very peaceful
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"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?"
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📣 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...
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University Teacher in Politics and International Relations
University Teacher in Politics and International Relations
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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
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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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!
catalyst14.co.uk
Group Coaching Skills Workshop (London) — Catalyst 14
Information about a group coaching skills workshop in Central London from Catalyst 14, one of the UK's leading coach training providers.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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!
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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Eco-Communities [Living Questions Session]
Join us as we Live The Questions and ask the experts - What can we learn as Bowden Pillars creates a new eco village right here in Totnes?
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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!
bloomsburycollections.com
Eco-communities
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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
And here's a petition regarding redundancies across the whole university: www.change.org/p/stop-compu...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Compulsory Redundancies; Protect Students and Staff
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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...
ABSTRACT
Drawing on the works of Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and others, this article explores how incongruity comedy – defined incongruous encounters that traverse human and nonhuman boundaries – reveal the shared vitality needed to make ecological care come alive. Through case studies of Aristophanes’ The Wasps, Moche pots, and Koko the gorilla, the article argues that incongruity come with the potential to disrupt human/nonhuman-hierarchies and foster attention to the entanglements that sustain life. Overall, the article proposes a ‘genre shift’ in environmental storytelling, emphasizing incongruity comedy’s ability to integrate joy and wonder with critique and action. By redirecting the affective terrain of climate change politics away from despair and towards vitality, incongruity comedy can inspire democratic experimentation and localized practices of care. This shift, the article contends, is vital for cultivating the resilience needed to address ongoing ecological crises.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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
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homer simpson from the simpsons is eating a bag of crunchy potato chips
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is eating a bag of crunchy potato chips
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
A brightly painted banner saying ‘Care more, Cut less’ surrounded by several staff holding placards saying ‘Stop the cuts to Higher Education UCU’ in front of the Geography and Planning building at the University of Sheffield
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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
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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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-...
geography.org.uk
GA Strategy consultation survey - Geographical Association
The GA Strategy consultation survey gives everyone the opportunity to contribute to the development of our 2025 – 30 strategic plan.
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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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...
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education) at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Say it enough, and they will believe anything.
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Edward Huijbens @edwardhuijbens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Don't do it ... no cuts in higher education
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Todays escape to the woods
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Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🚨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...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Human Geography
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (12 months)Applications are invited for a fixed term (12 months) teaching focused post in Human Geography at Lecturer level in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway Univers...
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