Jenny Pickerill
@jennypickerill.bsky.social
Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Eco-communities
www.bloomsburycollections.com
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!
We examine eco-communities worldwide through questions of transformative possibilities, inclusion, collective governance + diverse economics
Please read + share!
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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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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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
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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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!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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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...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
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’?
August 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
August 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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!
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference begins in Birmingham: 2,000+ attendees from over 72 countries. Excited to be here!
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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)
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)
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
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
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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)
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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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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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...
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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... 🐞🌱
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 ...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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... 🐞🌱
doi.org/10.1111/tran... 🐞🌱
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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
📆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
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
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
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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
📆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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As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News
Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.
OTHER PEOPLE: Dogs should not be on settees
MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve
MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve
July 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
OTHER PEOPLE: Dogs should not be on settees
MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve
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
July 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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?"
Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy https://on.ft.com/3TGYS5Q
Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy
Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education
on.ft.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"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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📣 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...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Universi...
University Teacher in Politics and International Relations
University Teacher in Politics and International Relations
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📣 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...
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
July 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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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
🕘 10.30am
Register 🎟️ bit.ly/3I4dxW1
Find out more about Jenny’s book 📗 bit.ly/3ZXwcJd
July 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
🕘 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.
www.catalyst14.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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!
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None 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...
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
EHRC Drops Workplace Toilet Advice Amid Legal Threat - Law360
Britain's equal rights watchdog has dropped its advice to employers that they must provide single-sex toilets in the wake of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision in the face of a court challenge.
www.law360.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
None 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...
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!
June 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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
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?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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!
We examine eco-communities worldwide through questions of transformative possibilities, inclusion, collective governance + diverse economics
Please read + share!
Eco-communities
www.bloomsburycollections.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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!
We examine eco-communities worldwide through questions of transformative possibilities, inclusion, collective governance + diverse economics
Please read + share!
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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...
Warning: some of the content is distressing.
zenodo.org/records/1563...
June 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
Warning: some of the content is distressing.
zenodo.org/records/1563...