Jennifer Houghton

Walking the tightrope between satisfying my curiosity and doing some good in the world. Urban researcher, dev practitioner, teacher and, best of all, mother.

[Jane-Elise Cherry @jecherry_SP]

The One Where All Our Hearts Are Broken 💔💔

To borrow Janice's saddest line - "Goodbye, Chandler Bing" 😭😭

Matthew Perry, 1969 - 2023

[UTA-Do African Cities Workshop @UTADO_Africa]

Applications are now open for UTA-Do African Cities Workshop (Jan, 2024). This year, we are in Dar. Scholars, artists and activists, apply!

[Jamie Peck @outtaKimbo]

It’s in the world …

[Julia Hobsbawm @juliahobsbawm]

Good work from a German ad agency which reads "protect the wildlife before it's too late"

[Brianne Fleming @brianne2k]

why does zoom have offices

[Jennifer Houghton @DrJenAH]

What the Frick is this X all about? Xweet?

[Caitlin Hafferty @CaitlinHafferty]

Do more participatory decision-making processes lead to better environmental outcomes?

This paper finds three factors that significantly influence environmental governance outcomes. Power delegation to participants is the most consistent predictor - https://t.co/P8rOmQOo0Q

[Jennifer Houghton @DrJenAH]

@ProfDRoberts @IPCC_CH @_AfricanUnion Fantastic!

[DialoguesinUrbanResearch @DialoguesinR]

Issue 2 is out, and it contains a wonderful book review forum on @ShaneDPhillips The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing within Reach (and Keeping It There). Commentary from Katrin Anacker, @AnnaGHansson, @stuhodkinson and Steffen Wetzstein

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Thinking about doing a PhD vs actually doing a PhD

[Jennifer Houghton @DrJenAH]

@richardosman my family thinks I've lost it. I'm giggling away to myself reading the interruption-filled book reading in #thebulletthatmissed. Delightfully funny.

[Jennifer Houghton @DrJenAH]

@waitsi2011 @EgoliGas I really did not know this type of gas supply was available anywhere in South Africa.

[Glen Robbins @Citywatcha]

Calgro pulled out of the KwaMashu Bridge City project. #eThekwini suffering from poor municipal and a provincial governance that fails citizens at almost every turn.

[Jennifer Houghton @DrJenAH]

@pjmeth1 another angle on boredom

[Ben Anderson @BenAndersonGeog]

Short open access piece on boredom and the affective politics of climate change. I argue that paying attention to boredom helps us notice a different kind of detachment - ‘climate change suspension’, rather than ‘denial/defiance’ or ‘delay’ …

https://t.co/k9hmdmgEHd

[Regional Studies Association @regstud]

One of the two 2023 @RegionalStudies Best Policy Debates Awards goes to Alessandro Sancino @DrMaxPolitics Alessandro Braga & Leslie Budd for their #openaccess paper 'What can city leaders do for climate change?' Find out more at https://t.co/0U4UL4mJrz

[Dariusz Wojcik @geographydarek]

How to make working paper series work (again) to help geographers and geography? If you have any ideas, please reply! @regstud @fingeonet @economyandspace @GCEG_Dublin2022 @econgeog

[Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez_pose]

Social capital—and, especially, networking—is pivotal for #labour #productivity #growth.
The firms that benefit the most from #SocialCapital are smaller #firms, with low capacity to innovate on their own, and operating in low-#technology sectors.
https://t.co/cAb9zobMGf

[Astrid R.N. Haas @astihaas]

As someone who speaks from having experienced the bottom of one of these traps (yup, all the way down to the sewerage), and is STILL suffering the consequences from having smashed my bone to pieces 10 YEARS LATER, I can only get behind this activism!!!!

https://t.co/bfbDCC9DKE

[Ian Goldman @iangoldmansa]

Institutional weaknesses in SA are largely a consequence of 4 policy developments: politicisation of administrations; indifference to skills, espec. technical skills; managerialism; and outsourcing gov to private businesses. ⁦@IChipkin⁩ ⁦⁦ https://t.co/fmrdPEslcd

[Nivashni Nair @NivashniNair]

Since writing a story on Queensland Police Services' recruitment call for SA police to join their force in Australia, I have received 42 emails from constables for more info and the application link. Before you comment on the demographic, let me tell you, its not what you think.