Jenny Pickerill

Professor Jenny Pickerill is Chair in Environmental Geography at the University of Sheffield, School of Geography and Planning. Her work bridges environmental justice, anti-capitalist alternatives, and Indigenous geographies through empirical research with eco-communities, anarchist collectives, and environmental campaigns.

• PhD in Geography, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
• MSc in Geographical Information Systems, University of Edinburgh
• Worked at Curtin University and University of Leicester before Sheffield

Research explores:

• Environmental Activism - Digital protest (2003), framing of wilderness (2008), everyday environmentalism (2024)
• Difference and Decolonization - Indigenous-environmentalist relations (2019), research ethics (2012), anti-colonial frameworks
• Experimental Solutions - Affordable eco-housing (2016), Tiny House Movement (2022), emotional sustainability (2009)

Teaching covers environmental geography, critical geopolitics, and fieldwork in eco-communities. Supervises PhD topics on sustainability transitions, collective action, and participatory methodologies.