About: This is an online space for Dr Anna Jackman’s drone geographies research. You can read more about Anna’s recent research projects, including both her current ‘Urban life and design in the drone age’, and previous ‘Diversifying Drone Stories’ projects, here. You can read about Anna’s wider research (including States of Precarity, exploring academic precarity in HEI Geography) here.
Bio: Anna is a Lecturer Human Geography at the University of Reading. Anna is a feminist political geographer interested in technological visibilities, volumes, relations and futures. Her research explores the impacts of digital and robotic technologies in everyday, urban, and military spaces and life.
Wider experience: Anna has policy related experience, including being interviewed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on the commercial use of drones for their 2024 Tech Horizons report, acting as the Specialist Adviser to the 2019 Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into ‘Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK‘, and as an expert witness for the Defence Committee’s 2019 Inquiry into the ‘Domestic threat of drones‘. She has shared her research in Westminster (on rogue drones), with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (on counter-drone technology), and at a NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) workshop (lightning keynote on domestic and urban drone threats). Anna holds two drone qualifications, the General Visual Line of Sight Certificate (GVC) and A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC).
More info: You can find further information about Anna’s research on her University of Reading staff page, and find Anna on X @ahjackman.