labour geographer: gender work and family, social reproduction, platform labour, AI and work, mother truckers, logistics @TruckingLives @NCL_Geography
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Al James retweeted
7 Nov 2025
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
ALT A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
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Al James retweeted
1 Oct 2025
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 👇🏼👇🏼
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Al James retweeted
6 May 2025
📣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 ✊🏼
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Al James retweeted
29 Apr 2025
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/webpag…
#TruckingLives #lorrydrivers #HGV
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Al James retweeted
20 Mar 2025
📣 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/lectur…
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Al James retweeted
10 Feb 2025
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
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6 Jan 2025
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/v…
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Al James retweeted
10 Dec 2024
Newcastle Geography is world leading. Top place to work, top place to study! Come join our supportive community:
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#Masters #PhD
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Al James retweeted
21 Nov 2024
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/geograph…
We're delighted to launch the NINE DTP ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme for 2025/26! 🚀 ninedtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral-f…
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Al James retweeted
12 Nov 2024
📣Newcastle Geography ranked World Number 3 in the Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 📣 shanghairanking.com/rankings… @UniofNewcastle
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16 Oct 2024
RT @fhpitts: Part Four of the Handbook for the Future of Work features @Re_AlJames, @hesmondthing, Charles Umney (@CERIC_LUBS), @KalieMaybe…
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RT @fhpitts: Full details and cover of the forthcoming Handbook for the Future of Work, edited with @JMacLeavy, are now available on the @r…
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Al James retweeted
19 Sep 2024
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
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Al James retweeted
6 Aug 2024
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
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9 Jul 2024
RT @fhpitts: The Handbook for the Future of Work, edited by me & @JMacLeavy, is coming out late this year as part of the @routledgebooks In…
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Al James retweeted
19 Jun 2024
In Ep 6 of A Rebel's Guide to the Gig Economy, @Ben_Wray1989 & @MariniThorne question the idea that the gig economy provides "professional & financial freedom" for women, as remote gig work platform 'UpWork' has claimed.
Full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/0zL…
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Al James retweeted
18 Jun 2024
IS THE GIG ECONOMY REALLY A "GODSEND" FOR WOMEN? 🔊
The gig economy reproduces many of the same problems for women as standard jobs, & in some cases reinforces the sexist double-burden of waged labour & domestic unpaid labour.
Ep 6 of A Rebel's Guide: open.spotify.com/episode/0zL…
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Al James retweeted
13 Jun 2024
Calling all lorry drivers! @truckinglives are launching a photo competition - more details here: truckinglives.co.uk/latest-p…
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Al James retweeted
11 Jun 2024
New Research Fellowships in EconGeog. 📣Powering Up Coastal Economies: Path Creation in Low Carbon and Renewable Energies📣 Work with Stuart Dawley and Danny Mackinnon. 2 x 24 mo posts. Led by @Southampton Uni with @NCL_Geography @Exeter Uni. Apply here: lnkd.in/eZXUgKkQ
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Al James retweeted
6 Jun 2024
📣 WE ARE HIRING 📣 1 yr Lectureship in Physical Geography (envt change, past envts, cryosphere). Details below👇🏼 Come and work with an exciting group of colleagues at @UniofNewcastle in autumn 2024. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIB020/lectur… APPLY BY 24 JUNE. Maternity replacement post.
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