2026 Report

The first report of the States of Precarity research project is now available to download. Its key findings include details of the extent of precarity within UK HE Geography departments, how precarity is experienced and why, and what precarity’s implications are for the health of individuals, departments, and the wider discipline. It is based on the findings of our discipline-wide survey and focus groups. Full details of the research design can be found here.

Action Plans

The report contains a set of Best practice Action Plans that provide concrete steps that can be taken to improve colleagues’ experiences of working in Higher Education. These steps are organised into separate plans for:

• Institutions
• Heads of Departments/Schools and Administrators
• Departments and Departmental Communities
• Precariously Employed Colleagues
• PhD Supervisors and Leaders of Postgraduate Training Programmes