Project Update 06/08/2024

Funding news

The States of Precarity team is excited to share that the project has been awarded funding from both Antipode (Right to the discipline grant) and the Royal Geographical Society with IBG (Small Research Grants). Alongside supporting the team's ongoing in-depth analysis of the 350+ responses to our online survey exploring the varied effects of precarity in UK academic Geography, the funding awarded will also support the project's next stages. These include undertaking focus groups with key groups (including Heads of Department and leadership, colleagues who manage those on fixed-term contracts, colleagues on fixed-term contracts, PhD students, and those who have left academia) to share project findings and consult on the development and drafting of best practice guidelines for Geography departments, as well as the production of diverse and engaging outputs to share project findings more widely. 

Project Update 14/03/2024

Survey news 

The States of Precarity survey closed in December and we were blown away by the response. Over 350 people from a range of career stages and perspectives participated. The responses were incredibly generous and we would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to share their (sometimes difficult and painful) experiences, thoughts, reflections, and suggestions on how to create a more equitable and just discipline. Moving forward, we are working on analysing the data and developing a strategy to share it as effectively as possible. We met as a team with the RGS in Birmingham to discuss next steps and have since applied for two small grants that we hope will propel the project forward. 

In the longer term, we will be organising focus groups to help shape the outputs of the project and we are grateful to all those who expressed a willingness to participate in these via the survey. In the shorter term, we will be sharing our initial findings at this year's RGS conference (more on this soon). We are delighted that Sage Brice, Aditi Das, Olivia Mason, and Cheryl Mcewan will be acting as discussants for this. We will also be opening the discussion out to the audience so we hope to see as many people there as possible. 

We will keep the website updated as the project unfolds and again, our sincere thanks to everyone who has participated and shaped it so far.