Al James

labour geographer: gender work and family, social reproduction, platform labour, AI and work, mother truckers, logistics @TruckingLives @NCL_Geography

[prof jenny pickerill @JennyPickerill]

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: https://t.co/yDq4m5YSdE #Geography #Redundancies

[Prof. Leah Ruppanner @leahruppanner]

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 👇🏼👇🏼

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

@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 👍🏼

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

📣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 ✊🏼

[Trucking Lives @TruckingLives]

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!

https://t.co/BPbLL70HGP

#TruckingLives #lorrydrivers #HGV

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

📣 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: https://t.co/j8rED4xpA7

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

@COSTIS1202 Excellent, thanks

[Trucking Lives @TruckingLives]

Pleased to see the Trucking Lives survey findings cited in a new report from @RHANews 'Lorry Drivers: The Vital Link' - https://t.co/Mpb6KXtcEY

Attracting AND retaining must be high on public and private sector agendas!

https://t.co/HBhsOAGjP9

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

@BenAndersonGeog What? Sunderland is doing this as well?

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

New paper: Gendering Platform Labour Law (Al James @NCL_Geography)

UK research on crowdworking in pregnancy, maternity, and post maternity return)

Open access https://t.co/rWdmfV4vFJ

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

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

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

Newcastle Geography is world leading. Top place to work, top place to study! Come join our supportive community:

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[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

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 https://t.co/nsGwxglLOZ

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

📣Newcastle Geography ranked World Number 3 in the Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 📣 https://t.co/AHnIibmL45 @UniofNewcastle

[Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts]

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

[Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts]

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: https://t.co/4ovpiQJEy6

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

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

[Newcastle University Geography @NCL_Geography]

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: https://t.co/UNLdnyAdYb

[Al James @Re_AlJames]

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