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

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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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...

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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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

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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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...

Sign the Petition

Save Geography at the University of Leicester

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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)

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)@rgs.org · 12mo ago

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍 On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk 📷: University of Birmingham

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...

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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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... 🐞🌱

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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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

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)@rgs.org · 12mo ago

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍 On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk 📷: University of Birmingham

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

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last yr.

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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?"

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy https://on.ft.com/3TGYS5Q

📣 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!

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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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