Newcastle Job: Lecturer in Political Geogs of the Middle East. One week left to apply.

Feminising digital labour platforms? Engaging with workers’ reproductive lives beyond the gig? What have academics really achieved? Zurich workshop on “Continuity & Change. Reflecting on a Decade of Platform-Mediated #GigWork” organized by @NielsvDoorn & Niels Beerepoot ETH Zurich.

📣 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 Newcastle University in autumn 2024. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIB020/lec… APPLY BY 24 JUNE. Maternity replacement post.

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 Newcastle University Geography exeter Uni. Apply here: lnkd.in/eZXUgKkQ

Calling all lorry drivers! @truckinglives are launching a photo competition - more details here: truckinglives.co.uk/latest-project…

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/0zL4eb…

In Ep 6 of A Rebel's Guide to the Gig Economy, Ben Wray & @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/0zL4eb…

The Handbook for the Future of Work, edited by me & Julie MacLeavy, is coming out late this year as part of the Routledge Books International Handbooks series. Details for preordering into university libraries and the full chapter list can now be found here: routledge.com/The-Handbook-f…

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 You mistyped @unisouthampton with Newcastle University Geography and @ExeterUni. Apply here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/2749224WR-R

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 Newcastle University Insights North East

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

Part Four of the Handbook for the Future of Work features Al James, David Hesmondhalgh, Charles Umney (CERIC), Kalie M. Mayberry (Wertz), Lindsey Cameron & Hatim Rahman on Platforms, Platform Labour and Gig Work

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

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

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…

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

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

📣 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…

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

📣Excited to welcome Prof Matt Zook Matthew Zook University of Kentucky as Global Visiting Fellow in Geography for May 2025 Newcastle University 👏🏼 to explore our research and teaching synergies on all things digital / econ geog / critical finance / urban ✊🏼