Academic job:
Research Fellow for a project on the harms experienced by young people outside the family home.
The project, led by our member Tom Disney, is based at Northumbria University (UK).
Applications are due by 7 May.
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Job listing: Research Fellow in Communities & Education - Northumbria University
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Job advert now available for 3yr post doc on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘the Horror of Place-based Harms’. Please share with your networks!
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Job advert now available for 3yr post doc on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘the Horror of Place-based Harms’. Please share with your networks!
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"The issue is the system, not the subject.”
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA on higher education funding cuts hitting language courses hardest and the wider risks to skills, research and opportunity in Times Higher Education:
bit.ly/4tFzJbD
It has taken grownups almost a generation to realise that closing youth clubs was a terrible idea
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Olivia Mason (2026) entitled: 'Doing geography amidst precarity' with a black banner at the top. Neoliberal agendas are increasingly shaping both what it means to do geography but also who can do geography. This is especially true for early career academics. In this intervention I suggest the question of why we do geography is increasingly being buried as we simply survive in the neoliberal academy. What I argue is that the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic. The number of job interviews undertaken, grants applied for or stories of precarity now dominate discussions rather than our research itself. These challenges in turn alter the ability to do geography research, especially research that involves long-term ethnography and/or else overseas fieldwork. Yet, I also argue that there are ways we can create more caring and careful research environments. Drawing on examples and experiences, this paper will end by exploring the acts of collective care, solidarity and resistance that can speak to the questions of what geography is for and why we do geography.
New in Area:
'Doing geography amidst precarity' by @oliviamason.bsky.social
This short piece is part of the ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
Fixed-term contracts, restructuring, and redundancies are reshaping academic careers.
The States of Precarity Report offers critical insights into both the immediate and long-term impacts on academic geographers.
Read the report 👉https://ow.ly/3uTh50XJvOV
Thanks John!
Thanks Alison! Would be great to catch up!
Really excited to be able finally say that my application for a Research Project Grant from Leverhulme - the Horror of Place-based Harms - was successful. Posting here because the project will be able to employ a PDRA and PhD for 3yrs. I’ll post more details soon. Do get in touch if interested.
'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Over the past 14 years, English local authority funding for youth services has fallen by 76% in real terms, a loss of £1.3bn. Since 2012-13, England has lost about half of its local authority youth workers, and one in 12 councils now report having no youth centres at all.
An incredibly worrying set of data about youth provision that the government’s youth strategy will barely touch.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Profit doesn't belong in children's social care
"Landmark legislation to eliminate private profit from children’s social care services in Wales...
But in England, more than 80% of child residential homes are for profit"
Time for England to copy Wales
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
"Youth provision should not depend on charities like us alone. That’s why we urge local MPs and the communities minister to go further in strengthening statutory protections for youth services and review councils’ statutory duty to provide youth services."
'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2
Major new investigation by The Observer: Privatised citizens: the business of kids in care. Children in care are growing up as commodities in a system driven by profit.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Are you a physical geographer looking for an editorial opportunity? Join the wonderful team at The Geographical Journal - details below⬇️
Logo featuring bold letters GFGRG representing the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group on a light background.
The Society's Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group is offering sponsorship of up to £300 to support events that promote feminist geographical research and practice.
Contact c.freeman@exeter.ac.uk for the application form. Deadline: 15 January 2026.
Small blue house perched precariously on the edge of a concrete structure against a cloudy sky.
📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
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
Call for chapters: Geography and Education: Concepts for re-imagining research, policy and practice! Full details here www.gereco.org/2025/11/17/c... and abstracts due 30/01/2026
📣Work with us! The Society is seeking an Editorial Assistant to support the publication of its academic journals (part time, fixed term contract).
Application deadline: 11 December.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/8tZU50XCI4w
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Austerity policies limit the right to parent in safe and healthy environments by decoupling service provision and welfare entitlements from the level of need.
Our latest paper with @jenchanfreau.bsky.social shows that they can also have knock-on effects on the right to have a child.
Hi @drlisacherry.substack.com happy to have a chat perhaps via email? I could send you my more recent publications. Thank you for your interest!
A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".
A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy
Special Section in The GJ:
'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social
This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️
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