Dr. Anna Jackman

Our new textbook, 'Political Geography: Approaches, Concepts, Futures' is out now in paperback & hardback! Thank you to the team at Sage for all of your support, and a special thank you to @SquireRachael for being a fab co-author & friend! uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/poli… @UniRdg_GES

Amazon drone deliveries have begun in Darlington; will there be a widespread rollout or will resident concerns about the divisive technology hamper the tech giant's plans? @ahjackman writes for @conversationuk 🔗 rdg.ac/3PfasGG

New from Paul Cureton @ImaginationLanc and I for the @ConversationUK. As Amazon's Prime Air launches in Darlington, the implications of scaled drone use for UK planning and the built environment require further investigation theconversation.com/amazon-is-maki…

Pleasure to contribute to the Annals of the American Association of Geographers forum on Urban Place Annihilation. Kathleen Braden urged us to revisit Kenneth Hewitt's contribution to geographies of aerial bombardment in the context of contemporary warfare tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interviewed on @BBCRadio4 World at One today about Amazon's delivery drone activities. Story starts at 24 minutes - thanks to @Sarah_Montague for keeping me on a while! Listen at: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Interviewed by the BBC for a story on Amazon's drone activities in Darlington - discussed the challenges of scaling commercial delivery drones in the UK: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Pleasure to be invited to join yesterday's 'autonomous aviation' roundtable held at Parliament. Great to hear about cutting edge UK drone applications and to input on the outstanding challenges and barriers facing scaling. Thank you to Windracers for the invitation!

'New regulations are sharply tightening rules...As of end of 2025, China had 3 million+ registered drones, a 50% increase from 2024. The Ministry of Public Security said tighter regulations were necessary to protect public safety' nytimes.com/2026/04/05/wor…

Pleasure to present at today's Westminster eForum's @wfpevents Next steps for the UK drone industry - policy, regulation, investment, innovation and growth event on a panel exploring priorities for drone sector policy and regulation. ➡️ Event info: westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/Dro…

➡️ Lecturer in Human Geography - Post 2: jobs.ac.uk/job/DRF684/lec… (closing date 24 May 2026): We are looking to appoint a critical human geographer for the post of Lecturer in Human Geography.

➡️ Lecturer in Human Geography - Post 1: jobs.ac.uk/job/DRF676/lec… (closing date 13 May 2026): We are looking to appoint a critical human geographer with experience teaching of quantitative and/or mixed-methods (i.e. quantitative and qualitative methods).

📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread. Please share! ⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: reading.ac.uk/ges/research/h…

🔊 New paper published in Area as part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. 'Doing Geography Amidst Precarity' by @olivia_r_mason (@NCL_Geography). Read the full paper #OpenAccess 👇 doi.org/10.1111/area.7…

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 👉rgs.org/research/highe…

RAF responding to suspected drone strike at UK base in Cyprus, MoD says bbc.in/4u0xf8A

💡 Happy to share this short piece in Political Geography's Virtual forum on AI. I explore urban AIs as one of many more-than-human actors in urban space - with a focus on cohabitations with animals. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"More academics left roles than started them in 2024-25 for the first time ever.....About 60 per cent of Universities UK members saw a fall in academic staff numbers last year" @paddywjack @timeshighered linkedin.com/redir/redirect…

"There is a balance to be struck between legitimate drone use as permitted under the law, and the threats accompanying malleable drones subject to misuse by criminal and malicious actors" ✍️ @ahjackman bit.ly/49nwVbQ

Thank you to @aljwhite for the invitation to write about consumer drone risk for The House, Parliament's magazine. You can read the piece @politicshome here: politicshome.com/opinion/articl… @UniRdg_GES

Great to see our @RGS_IBG and @antipodeonline funded States of Precarity project covered in the @timeshighered. 'Use of fixed-term posts 'stifling more critical research''. timeshighereducation.com/news/use-fixed… @UniRdg_GES

💡Reminder that tomorrow (14 Jan) the States of Precarity Report Launch and Discussion will be held online, 1:00-2:30PM GMT. Guest speakers: Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd, Lekan Adekola, Gillian Rose. Register here: rgs.org/events/upcomin…