Bio: Anna is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Anna is a feminist political geographer interested in the impacts of robotic and digital geographies as they touch down in, and (re)shape, everyday, urban and military space and life.
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 British Academy ‘Future drone skies: Planning in volume’ project (with Dr Paul Cureton) and previous ‘Urban life and design in the drone age’ (with Dr Paul Cureton), and ‘Diversifying Drone Stories’ projects, here. You can read about Anna’s wider research (including States of Precarity, exploring academic precarity in HEI Geography) here.
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).
More info: You can find further information about Anna’s research on her University of Reading staff page, and find Anna on Bluesky @ahjackman.bsky.social, LinkedIn here, and on X @ahjackman.