Dr Guy Jackson

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

I received a PhD in Human Geography from The University of Queensland (2020). My doctoral research illuminated the influence of emergency food aid on the root causes of disaster vulnerability in Indigenous food systems. Between 2021 and 2023 I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), where I worked on a large project exploring the social, environmental, and political dimensions of climate change loss and damage. I am currently a Vice Chancellor's Fellow (Assistant Professor) at Northumbria University, Department of Social Sciences. During my VCF I will be researching environmental and climate politics in the UK and beyond.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests cover the broad domain of human-environmental relations. I explore human-environmental relations through the examination of social, cultural, and political impacts of, and responses to, disasters, climate change, and environmental change. I am currently working on research projects exploring climate change loss and damage and environmental politics. I have undertaken ethnographic research in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu and have recently undertaken fieldwork in East Anglia, United Kingdom.

Key Publications

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Australian third sector actors’ theories of change for climate justice: real and apparent barriers and obscured root causes, Jackson, G. 7 Apr 2025, In: Environmental Politics
Political and legal implications of defining ‘particularly vulnerable’ for the loss and damage fund, Jackson, G., Sakshi, S. 14 Jul 2024, In: Climate and Development
The influence of climate resilience governmentality on vulnerability in regional Australia, Jackson, G. 1 Jun 2024, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
More-than-climate temporalities of loss and damage in Australia, Jackson, G. 26 Nov 2023, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers
An emerging governmentality of climate change loss and damage, Jackson, G., N'guetta, A., De Rosa, S., Scown, M., Dorkenoo, K., Chaffin, B., Boyd, E. 1 Jun 2023, In: Progress in Environmental Geography

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: Climate impacts and energy politics in East Anglia 2025
Invited talk: The physical and psychosocial hyper-separation between extraction and loss: Insights from northern Australia 2024
Invited talk: Guerrilla (Un)theorising 2024
Invited talk: Post-COP28 Webinar: What happened (or not) at COP28? 2023
Invited talk: Recap of COP28 2023
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023
Invited talk: Loss and damage in climate negotiations: experiences from COP27 2022
Invited talk: Biodiversity and Climate: Empowering Nature and Equality 2022
Invited talk: Climate (im)mobilities in Australia and the Pacific 2022
Invited talk: Climate change loss and damage in Australia: perceptions, root causes and the formation of (un)resilient subjects 2022