Jenny Pickerill
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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- 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...
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillHuman 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...
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- 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!
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- 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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- 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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- 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!
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillNone 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!
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillNow 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
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillPlease 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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- Reposted by Jenny PickerillThere 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
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- 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
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- Reposted by Jenny PickerillCome 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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- Todays escape to the woods
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- Reposted by Jenny PickerillI've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillJob at KCL geography - join us! - Lecturer in Geopolitics (permanent post) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/112649-...
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- Reposted by Jenny PickerillHere's a map of all the redundancies in UK Higher Education. It's a rout.
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- Reposted by Jenny Pickerillfolks flying in to the US for #AAG2025 may want to remove apps from their phones & take other precautions after today's outrageous detention of a French Scientist on the way to a conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Amongst all the current horrors of the world I am finding great comfort in my local towns’ information page - mostly sharing vital warnings about a duck sitting in a puddle in a road
- Reposted by Jenny Pickerill20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
- A rare + special time with my mum + oldest brother in Utrecht, Netherlands. Gentle wanderings, cafes, people watching, sun worshiping, + delicious food. Deeply restorative
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillEvery time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
- I really hear this. In academia it seems increasingly that what unis want from ‘leadership’ is compliance, performance management, metrics of productivity. Ethics, values + care that do not fit this narrative are constructed as being ‘difficult’ + ‘causing problems’. Felt this in my job this week
- Thoroughly enjoyed discussing how to sustain political activism in these dark times + collective ‘inner being’ geographies, with a brilliant audience + @culturalgeography.bsky.social + inspiring panelists. Followed by a somatic workshop + somatic approach to using the wheel of power + privilege
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- Fancy living in an urban eco-community? LILAC (Leeds, England) has some vacancies! One of the most inspiring, affordable + generally wonderful eco-communities I know
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- When I asked our undergraduates to choose topics to think through contemporary environmental problems, solutions + social justice, war + conflict was a popular choice. So now I am writing a lecture on environmental impacts of war in Ukraine, DRC etc, + yeah, there is a lot to worry about right now
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillFrom interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
- The arrival of spring is lifting my spirits
- Universities are being naive if they think staff won’t react with fury, anger, + resistance to the cruelty + harshness of university restructuring processes, staff cuts + redundancies. These processes might be ‘legal’, but they are not ethical nor coming from any place of care
- The sheer joy + nourishment of working with colleagues who share your values, politics, care ethics + intentions is impossible to overstate. That I get to be in a collective with so many kick-ass inspiring female academics who walk the talk is everything. Made me smile all afternoon
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- Reposted by Jenny PickerillA friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬
- Reposted by Jenny PickerillIt exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
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- The obligatory photos of a geographers’ visit to LSE Department of Geography + Environment for a writer-meets-readers discussion. Thank you for generous + welcoming hosting, thought-provoking questions, + delicious gluten-free pizza!
- Critical legal appeal sees lengthy sentences reduced for Just Stop Oil activists, but unfortunately not for geographer Dr Larch Maxey, whose sentence for 3 years still stands. Unnecessarily harsh criminalisation + crack down on peaceful environmental protest in Britain continues
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