Anna Jackman
Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Feminist political geographer and drone researcher interested in technological visibilities, volumes, and futures.
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- Reposted by Anna Jackman"States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography" -- read the report co-funded by the Antipode Foundation and @rgsibg.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Anna JackmanFixed-term academic contracts may be holding back bold science. A new UK survey finds job insecurity pushes researchers towards safer topics — limiting risk-taking, creativity and long-term discovery. 🔗
- 💡Our @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project has been covered in @sciencebusiness.net. 'Fixed-term academic contracts discourage ‘radical’ research' sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun... Thank you @davidmjourno.bsky.social for reaching out to the team
- Reposted by Anna JackmanThe @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
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- The @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project has been covered in @timeshighered.bsky.social. The piece draws attention to the team's work to better understand the short and longer term impacts of academic precarity in UK HE Geography, and to intervene and act in response. www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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- Great to see our project, @statesofprecarity.bsky.social , being covered in Times Higher Education
- Thank you @profgillian.bsky.social for sharing your thoughtful reflections about the report, action plans and sector more broadly at the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social launch event. This kind of work needs buy in from senior academics and leadership - we are grateful for your ongoing support ⭐️
- this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anna Jackmanthis was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
- Cuts, mergers, and redundancies risk hollowing out the discipline and eroding its interdisciplinary core. Geography’s future depends on confronting precarity head-on. Join us for our launch event on Wednesday! www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
- Thank you @matildaf.bsky.social for sharing your thoughtful reflections on the report and action plans, and for the kind words about the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social launch event ⭐️
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- Reposted by Anna JackmanToday we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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- Reminder that tomorrow (14 Jan) the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Report Launch and Discussion will be held online, 1:00-2:30PM GMT. Guest speakers: @matildaf.bsky.social, @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Lekan Adekola, @profgillian.bsky.social. Register here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
- Reposted by Anna JackmanCuts, mergers, and redundancies risk hollowing out the discipline and eroding its interdisciplinary core. Geography’s future depends on confronting precarity head-on. Join us for our launch event on Wednesday! www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
- Reposted by Anna JackmanPrecarity isn’t just contractual. It’s about whether academic work allows people to live fulfilling, stable lives. Join us for our report launch event on Wednesday. Speakers: Gillian Rose, Lekan Adekola, Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd Register👇 www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
- Reposted by Anna JackmanJoin us for our report launch event next Wednesday, 1pm-2.30pm [Online] Guest speakers: Prof. Gillian Rose, Lekan Adekola, Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd Register 👇 www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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- Reposted by Anna JackmanHappy New Year everyone - we have one week to go until the launch event for States of Precarity in UK HE Geography! Join us to discuss the findings, their implications, and routes for action. Register: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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- ‘The current structure…survived the month-long occupation by Russian forces in early 2022. But earlier this year, a drone strike blew a hole in the multi-layered structure…A new report.. states that the structure has lost its “primary safety functions”’ www.popularmechanics.com/science/a696...
- Reposted by Anna JackmanDepartments can make a difference to experiences of academic #precarity. Transparency in contract use, clear mentoring structures, workload mapping, and inclusion of FTC staff in decision-making are key first steps. Download our Action Plans to reduce precarity here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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- Thank you for your ongoing support of the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social project, @profgillian.bsky.social. Project report & action plans: www.rgs.org/research/hig... Project launch event, online (14 Jan): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Project blog post: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/11/21/s...
- this is a crucial report with significance across the UK #highered sector, for all workers, on fixed-tem contracts or not, including senior management. @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Anna JackmanTo read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral
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- Reposted by Anna Jackmanit was a real pleasure to listen to @ahjackman.bsky.social and @adammpacker.bsky.social discuss their work on #dronegeographies #volumetricair - thanks so much for coming to @oxfordgeography.bsky.social!
- Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!
- Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!
- Reposted by Anna JackmanWhen Nottingham's School of Geography is closed as part of managerial restructuring, and we find ourselves in a "School of Earth Sciences" next year, where will that leave cultural, historical, political, social, – etc. – geographers who don't fit the new model, when management ask for redundancies?
- Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts. Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious. The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇 www.rgs.org/research/hig...
- 💡 Had fun yesterday evening sharing my research with the Hampshire Skeptics Society - a non-profit organisation promoting critical thinking. Thank you to David and the team for a kind welcome and to the audience for great questions! www.hampshireskeptics.org/26th-nov-202...
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- This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
- Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
- 🚨 New @rgsibg.bsky.social report & action plans from the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social team. Shares findings from our research on the long & short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography & includes action plans designed to support more equitable working cultures ➡️ www.rgs.org/research/hig...
- States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures. www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anna JackmanCrafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making - a new paper by Kim Peters and I in @tibg.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to the team at Transactions for such a constructive process.
- Reposted by Anna JackmanCall for proposals -- Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants -- submit your application by 10 April 2026 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...
- Can't wait to get stuck into Sydney Calkin & @cordyf.bsky.social's De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography. Thank you for featuring my chapter on Geographies of technology. ➡️Handbook: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... ➡️My chapter: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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- Thank you to Daniela Ferreira and Mário Vale for organising the 4th Digital Geographies Conference (lnkd.in/eYeFD6P4) at IGOT-ULisboa. Great to engage with diverse international digital geographies research, and to share my research on 'Feminist digital geographies in flight: Everyday drone stories'
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- Reposted by Anna JackmanNew in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
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- 'German police are set to gain powers to shoot down rogue drones...The cabinet approved the new legislation on Wednesday, now awaiting parliamentary consent...The new law comes after dozens of flights were diverted or cancelled last Friday at Munich Airport' www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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- Some nice news to close the week. @paulcureton.bsky.social and I have been awarded @britishacademy.bsky.social Small Research Grants funding. We’ll shortly kick off our project, ‘Future drone skies: Planning in volume’, which will explore the impact of drones on built environments
- Reposted by Anna Jackman📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
- It was a pleasure to deliver this year’s @dgrgrgs.bsky.social annual lecture at #RGS2025. Thank you @adammpacker.bsky.social & @tessosborne.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @debbiehopkins.bsky.social for rich discussant reflections, and to all who joined the session ⭐️
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- Still sinking in that I have been promoted to Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Grateful to colleagues at UoR and beyond who have been incredibly kind and supportive, and to the students who light up my teaching and keep me learning! ⭐
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- “The revelations…are the latest to show just how much Russia’s leaders are dragging the country’s youth into the war effort in Ukraine, with ‘patriotic’ and militarised education often spilling over into outright participation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- Annual leave visiting Slovenia was truly delightful 🤩 🇸🇮
- ‘The volume of drugs being delivered by drones into prisons is severely undermining hopes of rehabilitation among inmates, a watchdog has warned’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- 📢 Report launch: ‘From Ambition to Action: Insights into drone use by Local Government in England’ explores real-world use cases of drones by local government in England - reflecting on benefits, drivers &barriers. research.reading.ac.uk/drone-geogra... ➡️ Blog: research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...
- 📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Drones 'pose a growing threat as criminals,terrorists,& hostile foreign actors...weaponize the tech to endanger public safety &national security.The Order establishes the Federal Task Force to Restore American Airspace Sovereignty &propose solutions to UAS threats' www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
- 'From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum'. New in @proghumgeog.bsky.social , Daisy Curtis & I think across the spectrum, developing a feminist-inspired agenda attentive to bodies, more-than-human encounters, and living with spectrum doi.org/10.1177/0309...
- ‘In an ever-evolving conflict, soldiers rapidly adapt…the latest threat comes from fibre optic drones. A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a drone & the fibre optic cord is attached to the controller held by the pilot’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Interesting read: 'How to make field education in geography more anti-racist: seven key steps' by Annie Hughes (Kingston University London), via Geography Directions blog.geographydirections.com/2025/05/19/h...
- 'In 2023, the DfT sponsored the CAA to review the regulation of UAS in the UK, publishing the “Review of UK UAS Regulations consultation”...The CAA engaged with all responses to the consultation. This reply sets out the CAA’s final policy recommendations' www.caa.co.uk/publication/...
- Pleasure to review Adam Fish's provocative and thoughtful book 'Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones'. Focusing on drones in marine conservation, the book explores the drone's potential as a 'tool for an affirmative multispecies ethics'. More at: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
- Great to present at today's @aerosociety.bsky.social 's Remotely Piloted and Autonomous Aircraft Systems Conference. Shared findings on research with UK local authorities and drone industry on societal impacts and benefit www.aerosociety.com/media/26274/...
- Missing the stunning views from our UoR Geography and Environmental Science part 2 field class to Stirling last week!
- Great to host today's panel on Gender and fieldwork, to mark International Women's Day. Thank you to panellists Catherine Souch @rgsibg.bsky.social , Alison MacLeod, Selma Benyovszky, Anya Lawrence and Alanna Cant for your thoughtful and careful input. Looking forward to continuing conversations!
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- "Russia carries out massive missile and drone attack on energy targets, Ukraine says' . 'Ukraine's energy and gas infrastructure also came "under massive missile and drone shelling", the country's energy minister says' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
- Great to share project findings from @paulcureton.bsky.social and I's Urban life and design in the drone age project (exploring the implications of BVLOS drones for urban planning and design) at the Future Flight Social Insight workshop futureflightsocial.ac.uk
- ‘Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
- The Drone Ready Cities project launched a regulatory framework for local authorities. Nice to see it quoting extensively from our report on drones and legal considerations. ➡️DRC regulatory framework www.midlandsaerospace.org.uk/documents/re... ➡️Our report research.reading.ac.uk/drone-geogra...
- In 2022 I worked w/ @massobsarchive.bsky.social (who seek the views of ‘ordinary’ people to understand everyday life in Britain) on a directive on drones. New in @thegj.bsky.social, I examine the 124 responses, exploring how correspondents understand drone incidents & misuse doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
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