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Jenny Pickerill

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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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Jenny Pickerill is a Professor of Environmental Geography and Head of Department at the University of Sheffield. Her work considers how people value and use the environment, the impact of social justice on environmental policy and establishing ways to change social practise. .. more

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jun 19

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!

Eco-communities

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Aug 29

Celebrating creativity at @rgsibg.bsky.social with @ella-hubbard.bsky.social amazing sewing - how many academic conferences have such fun activities + ‘outputs’?

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Aug 29

Loved perusing the geography zines at the @rgsibg.bsky.social marque this morning - amazing political interventions

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Aug 26

The @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference begins in Birmingham: 2,000+ attendees from over 72 countries. Excited to be here!

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 26

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) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Jenny Pickerill, Keith Lilley , and 2 more Lesley A. Hall, Jenny Pickerill, Keith Lilley, Katherine Brickell, Richard C. Chiverrell

Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Aug 4

In addition we know from analysis of grant application success rates that those who are non-white, + to a slightly lesser extent those who are not-men, are awarded far fewer percentages of grants relative to both their number in academia + how many applications they submit

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Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Charles West, Rebecca Williams , and 4 more Dave O’Brien, Charles West, Rebecca Williams, Jenny Pickerill, Julie Cupples, Hayley Bennett, Jan R. Boehnke

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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Reposted by Beth Perry, Jenny Pickerill, Tom Goodfellow , and 1 more Beth Perry, Jenny Pickerill, Tom Goodfellow, Emma Jackson

Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Mar 10

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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A conference for post-graduate and early career researchers Sheffield, UK - June 26th and 27th, 2025

sites.google.com

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 24

OTHER PEOPLE: Dogs should not be on settees

MY DOG: This is the very least I deserve

Red fox Labrador dog lying on its back on a sofa looking very peaceful

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 15

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

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣 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...

University Teacher in Politics and International Relations

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 11

I have not. I will look it up. Thanks

Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 11

Peri-menopause seems dominated by stories of loss + grief, but I have shifted to a space of assertive unashamed self-care. My status as an older women as a relief from gendered social reproductive expectations. A celebration of the power of being whatever I want to be - hope I am not alone in this

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 25

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...

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

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jun 23

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!

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

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Amy Robson @amyrobson.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 ...

doi.org

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · May 23

Please 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...

Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

www.change.org

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · May 22

And here's a petition regarding redundancies across the whole university:
www.change.org/p/stop-compu...

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Reposted by Adam S. Posen, Jason Stajich, Ingrid Piller , and 12 more Adam S. Posen, Jason Stajich, Ingrid Piller, Jennifer Clark, Anna Tarrant, Amy McGovern, Robert T. Tally, Fleur Johns, Michael J. Taylor, Jenny Pickerill, Lesley Bartlett, Ian Bogost, Alexandra Cirone, Goldie Blumenstyk, Alexander Starre

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There 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.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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