Bridget Shaffrey
@bshaffrey.bsky.social
PDRA @DurhamPhil || Marie-Curie Doctoral Fellow @DurhamGeog || researching place-based solidarities & rural left behind communities || she/her || 🇵🇸
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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
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November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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
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I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does academic writing about resistance do, now?
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.
(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)
(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
May 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.
(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)
(Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)
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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....
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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
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Through the accounts of workers furloughed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the paper details how the loss of a worker's agency through the suspension of their work life led them to feel...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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
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
Spoke at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov’s 2025 Science Seminar on how place-based solidarities drive equitable growth in left-behind places last Friday. Really
great discussing community-led change with other academics and policy makers!
great discussing community-led change with other academics and policy makers!
March 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Spoke at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov’s 2025 Science Seminar on how place-based solidarities drive equitable growth in left-behind places last Friday. Really
great discussing community-led change with other academics and policy makers!
great discussing community-led change with other academics and policy makers!
Proud to have contributed to evidence to the publication of the House of Lords Report, ‘High Streets: Life Beyond Retail’: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!
My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!
publications.parliament.uk
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Proud to have contributed to evidence to the publication of the House of Lords Report, ‘High Streets: Life Beyond Retail’: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!
My evidence highlighted the contentious dynamics around high street re-development made by multiple political actors!