@pjforman
Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University (UK). Researches energy transitions, security and infrastructural politics. Specialises in natural gas and hydrogen. He/Him https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/f/peter-forman/
🎆 New Paper: Pluralising security: molecular security and the circulation of natural gas
@secdialogue.bsky.social
I offer a framework for understanding how secure subjects are performed across journeys, according to plural interests and referent objects, between and across different scales.
Call for Papers - #RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026
Conceptualising Infrastructural Deaths
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Glad to see this finally out in @secdialogue.bsky.social!
How do plural understandings of #security become balanced in performances of security? Here, I show how security performances transform over space/time, according to plural, shifting, actors and interests.
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Precarity isn’t just contractual. It’s about whether academic work allows people to live fulfilling, stable lives. Join us for our report launch event on Wednesday.
Speakers: Gillian Rose, Lekan Adekola, Matilda Fitzmaurice, Jay Todd
Register👇
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Really excited for this. Thanks to everyone who has participated in the process, and to our amazing guest speakers. Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
#Precarity
Whilst one wheel cannot capture the complexities of academic privilege, this is a useful tool for thinking about where it lies. We suggest a new spoke on contract status be added to signal that this as a key issue that intersects with every other indicator of privilege.
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We have developed a series of practical strategies for addressing experiences of precarity within UK geography departments. These are easy to use and are targeted at specific user groups. Download them now!
Our report paints a stark picture. In addition to the experiences of early career and fixed term colleagues, nearly half of all permanently employed UK geographers currently feel precarious.
Serial fixed-term contracts are having a devastating effect on colleagues' lives and on the health of our discipline. Read more in our linked report. #StatesofPrecarity
States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
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Really glad that this is finally out - thanks so much to all of the contributors and participants involved. The report's findings are so important, and reading through the responses has been deeply emotional. Our discipline is being eroded by precarious employment practices, but it can be otherwise.
🚨 Calling all colleagues who have previously worked in a UK #geography department, but no longer do.
We are developing best-practice guidelines for addressing #precarious employment within geography departments.
Join a focus group below to contribute your insights!
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New in Geography Directions on our States of Precarity project, exploring precarity in HE Geography. Shares posters raising awareness & giving visibility to fixed-term contracts & experiences. Please share & display in geog depts! @pjforman.bsky.social blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r...
This looks fab!
🔋How can we achieve an inclusive Net Zero future?🔋
Read about @luciemidd.bsky.social et al.'s recent Geo paper in this @rgsibg.bsky.social Research Spotlight ⬇️
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Two permanent human geography posts at Durham University ( a focus on nature, climate change and just futures)
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Our new website has been launched. Watch this space for updates on the project
www.statesofprecarity.co.uk
Our survey of experiences of #precarity within UK higher education #geography departments was completed by 11.4% of geographers working in the UK today.
For a more detailed break down of our sample, check out the survey page on our website
www.statesofprecarity.co.uk/the-survey
Thanks Imogen!
Plus, tonnes of Tü folk on here, which is nice!
Yeah, seems so - loads of official profiles for journals and organisations too. Seems worth a punt.
Just getting started on here - looks promising. Academics out there - how are you finding BlueSky as an academic twitter alternative?