Anna Jackman
-
0118 378 3934
-
Associate Professor
- Various Undergraduate Human Geography teaching responsibilities (e.g. convenor GV2EPG Encountering Political Geographies; convenor GV3RC Remote control; Field class teaching (Stirling); dissertation supervision)
- GES Director of Postgraduate Research Students (Human Geography)
- Human Geography Research Cluster (HGRC) co-lead
Areas of interest
- Political geography
- Feminist geopolitics
- Digital geographies
- Robotic geographies
- Geographies of verticality and volume
- Aeromobilities and geographies of airspace
Research centres and groups
Background
Anna is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the 桃色视频. A feminist political geographer by background, Anna’s research explores the impacts of digital and robotic technologies in everyday, urban, and military spaces and life.
Engaging with feminist, political, digital and robotic geographies, Anna’s recent work has explored the use and impacts of drones in changing airspace, engaging with diverse stakeholders and actors to understand different uses, experiences and perspectives on drones as they may be (re)shaping airspace, everyday life and (in)securities.
Anna is also part of the Royal Geographical Society and Antipode-funded project '', which brings together researchers across several UK universities to explore the short and long term effects of precarity in UK Higher Education Geography. .
Anna is presently leading a , ‘Future drone skies: Planning in volume’ (Co-I, ) (SRG25\250332) which engages with planners to explore the implications of drones in three-dimensional (volumetric) airspace for UK built environments and residents living in their midst.
Anna previously led an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) New Investigator Award, ‘’ (December 2021 – July 2023, ES/W001977/1) which explored the ways in which drones are (re)shaping UK airspace, with a focus on aerial (in)securities and harms. In terms of publications, Anna’s work has explored themes and topics including: , , , ‘’, , and . Conceptually, Anna’s work has mobilised feminist thinking in reflecting on and , and has sought to extend existing understandings of volume by bringing the analytic and sensibility of .
Examples of Anna’s public-facing writing include work on, , , , and .
You can find out more about Anna’s research projects on the webpage, and about .
Anna is interested in the policy dimensions of growing drone use and acted as the Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 2019 Inquiry into '' and as an expert witness for the Defence Committee's 2019 Inquiry into the ''. Anna has shared her research in presentations in Westminster (on rogue drones) and to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (on drones and counter-drone technology).
You can connect with Anna on a.h.jackman@reading.ac.uk , , and .
Academic qualifications
Anna holds a from Advance HE.
Anna completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2017. Anna's PhD, entitled 'Unmanned geographies: Drone visions and visions of the drone', explored the propagation of drones in particular military and emergency service contexts. The thesis adopted a dual interest in the ways in which the drone frames 'target' bodies and topographies, and the ways in which it is framed by particular trade and advocacy communities.
Anna flies consumer drones and has held two UK drone qualifications (General Visual Line of Sight Certificate (GVC) and A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC)).