Al James

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography, with the loss of staff, research + teaching. Please sign and share this petition: c.org/j4dnsDRCMZ #Geography #Redundancies

Podcast alert! I talk about the incredible work by @Re_AlJames who was a Kanter Award finalist for best work-family research in 2024. He writes about the challenges of having an algorithm as your boss. listen here 👇🏼👇🏼

@RGS_IBGhe Really enjoyed @unibirmingham hosting this. Hugely impressive campus and city. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Up there with Manchester, Edinburgh, and Newcastle hosting last few years, all excellent. Look forward to more @RGS_IBG out and about next few years 👍🏼

After four days, 400+ sessions across 40+ stages, discussions, receptions, Chair’s events, with over 2,000 geographers in attendance both online and remotely, our Annual Conference has come to a close. #rgsibg25 📷: Neill Bell-Shaw

📣Excited to welcome Prof Matt Zook @mattzook @universityofky as Global Visiting Fellow in Geography for May 2025 @UniofNewcastle 👏🏼 to explore our research and teaching synergies on all things digital / econ geog / critical finance / urban ✊🏼

Today the Trucking Lives project is launching its photo exhibition - over 70 photos from #truckers in the UK - showing us all what life on the road is really like. Take a look and let us know what you think! new.express.adobe.com/webpage/63aP5G… #TruckingLives #lorrydrivers #HGV

📣 Lectureship in Political Geography at Newcastle University 📣 12 mo post externally funded through Prof Nick Megoran ISRF Fellowship. To start 1st Sept 2025. Apply here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ353/lec…

@COSTIS1202 Excellent, thanks

@Re_AlJames sorry! it must have got truncated. Please note that it is in english despite appearances: labourlaw.unibo.it/article/view/2…

A gender critique of the EU directive on platform work from the perspective of feminizedand racializedlabour

Pleased to see the Trucking Lives survey findings cited in a new report from @RHANews 'Lorry Drivers: The Vital Link' - tinyurl.com/39s4apya Attracting AND retaining must be high on public and private sector agendas! truckinglives.co.uk/outputs

@BenAndersonGeog What? Sunderland is doing this as well?

Yes, this is a subtweet to an institution not far from mine

‘Unfunded research time’ is a term that needs pushing back on. If a claim about research is used in student recruitment, if you promise research-led teaching, then teaching income is partly derived from research. & funded research is usually derived from ‘unfunded research time’

New paper: Gendering Platform Labour Law (Al James @NCL_Geography) UK research on crowdworking in pregnancy, maternity, and post maternity return) Open access labourlaw.unibo.it/article/view/2…

@kwan_haley @NTWEjournal Superb! I’ve used your earlier papers on this a lot. This looks great as well.

I published my research paper on gendered emotional labour in @NTWEjournal. The journey of crafting and refining this piece was truly rewarding. Thank you, the editor and reviewers, for their invaluable support. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nt…

Newcastle Geography is world leading. Top place to work, top place to study! Come join our supportive community: shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/… #Masters #PhD ncl.ac.uk/gps/study-with… ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

Recently awarded a PhD in human geog? On cities, economies, social change, power, space, politics? Just about to finish up? Consider a @DtpNine postdoc fellowship @NCL_Geography @UniofNewcastle Full detail below. Please e-mail a prospective supervisor ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/geog…

📣Newcastle Geography ranked World Number 3 in the Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 📣 shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/… @UniofNewcastle

Part Four of the Handbook for the Future of Work features @Re_AlJames, @hesmondthing, Charles Umney (@CERIC_LUBS), @KalieMayberry, @LindseyDCameron & Hatim Rahman on Platforms, Platform Labour and Gig Work

Full details and cover of the forthcoming Handbook for the Future of Work, edited with @JMacLeavy, are now available on the @routledgebooks website as part of its International Handbooks series: routledge.com/The-Handbook-f…

Great to celebrate @CURDSNewcastle’s rich legacy of research, intellectual leadership and policy impact this evening with alumni, collaborators, and current staff 🍾👏🏼🎉 - and all this alongside exciting new research in the making @UniofNewcastle @insights_ne

2 year Research Fellowship* in EconGeog. Powering Up Coastal Economies: Path Creation in Low Carbon and Renewable Energies. Work with Stuart Dawley and Danny Mackinnon. Led by @SouthamptonUni with @NCL_Geography and @ExeterUni. Apply here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/2749224WR-R

@JMacLeavy Wow, how did you find the time to write that?!

After all the recent rain, taking the chance to do some proofreading in the sun! ‘Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State’ is forthcoming in November, published with University of Bristol: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/enduring-auste…