Senior Lecturer
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
I started my lectureship in Environmental Geography at the University of Stirling in June 2015, where I specialise in energy geographies. Prior to moving to Stirling, I completed my PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Leicester, where I stayed on as a postdoctoral researcher working on a number of interdisciplinary research projects that spanned the social and natural sciences. My first role was as a researcher and teaching developer in the HEFCE-funded Spatial Literacy in Learning and Teaching CETL, investigating the pedagogies of mobile Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Virtual Reality with particular focus on human/environmental applications. Recognising the value of interdisciplinary approaches, I then diversified and engaged with more social sciences projects where I developed my qualitative research skills. Before moving to Stirling, some of the larger projects I’ve worked on are: ‘Adaptations to Rural Communities through Living with Climate Change’ (RCUK Rural Economy and Land Use Programme); ‘New Urbanisms, New Citizens: Children and Young People’s Everyday Life and Participation in Sustainable Communities’ (ESRC), Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-Industrial Places, 1970s to the Present’ (AHRC) and ‘Rural Hybrid Energy Enterprise Systems’ (EPSRC Bridging the Urban Rural Divide programme).
Please see my 'Research Interests' page for details of current projects and opportunities.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the socio-environmental interactions of the energy landscape. Community engagement and creative co-creation is playing an increasingly important role in my research, which broadly focuses on energy access and vulnerability, public perceptions and reaction to energy technologies, sustainable housing and behaviours, and a just transition to a low carbon economy. I specialise in using mixed method approaches in my research, including GIS, participatory mapping, mobile and social data collection techniques to explore the complex relationships among climate change, energy and sustainability.
PhD Opportunities:
I would be keen to supervise students on a range of topics that take interdisciplinary approaches to better our understanding and support a just transition to a low carbon future. The geographical focus of my research is currently South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. I am particularly interested in supervising projects on the following topics:
My recent research activities include:
Water and Fire: Understanding and reducing risk with 15 “Best Bets” for enhancing capacity for transformative adaptation with vulnerable township residents on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa. (GCRF-ESRC). 2019-2022 Collaborators: Universities of Stirling (Lead), Cape Town, Western Cape. Total award size: £900k
Re-energising Clackmannanshire: engaging communities around energy for a healthier, wealthier and greener future. (UKRI). 2019-2020. Collaborators: Glasgow School of Art, Hawkhill Community Association, British Geological Survey, Clackmannanshire Council, Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface (CTSI). Total award size: £39k.
Evaluating the relationship between public perception, engagement and attitudes towards underground energy technologies and UK Geoenergy Observatory science. (British Geological Survey) 2019. Total award size: £10k.
Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes and community responses to shale gas: an integrated approach. (NERC Unconventional Hydrocarbons Programmer) 2018-2021. Collaborators: Universities of Exeter (Lead), Cardiff, Edinburgh, Heriot Watt. Total award size: £512k.
Beyond the ‘energy silo’: exploring energy challenges and their interactions with food, water and health in rural India and Scotland (Scottish Alliance for Geosciences, Environment & Society PECRE award). 2016. Total award size: £3.6k
An Ecosystem Analysis of Food Production and Security. (Stirling Crucible seed funding. Collaborators: Dr Anthony O’Hare, Susan Murray) 2016. Total award: £1.3k
Getting the right spatial mix: methods for robust spatial planning for renewable energy. (SECURE feasibility project) 2015 Collaborators: University of Leeds (Lead), Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland. Total award size: £25k
Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes and community responses to shale gas: an integrated approach
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Shake, quake or fake? Comparing BGS expected intensity modelling, felt reports, Twitter comments, and public perceptions
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Water and Fire: Understanding and reducing risk with 15 “Best Bets” for enhancing capacity for transformative adaptation with vulnerable township residents on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.
PI: Professor Derek McGhee
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Developing Deep Science Laboratories from the Shale Gas Legacy
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Amplifying our students' voice: the co-production of undergraduate field courses (residential and non-residential) to address EDI
PI: Dr Martina Quaggiotto
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council
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Re-energising Clackmannanshire: engaging communities around energy for a healthier, wealthier and greener future
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation
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HotScot Seedcorn
PI: Professor Andrew Tyler
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation
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Evaluating the relationship between public perception, engagement and attitudes towards underground energy technologies and UK Geoenergy Observatory science.
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: British Geological Survey
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Getting the right spatial &social mix: improved methods for planning community Renewable Energy facilities
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Article
Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas
Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Foad C, Ryder S, Mayer A & Varley A (2023) Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas. Nature Climate Change.
Article
Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Bartie P, Napier H, Mosca I, Foad C & Ryder S (2022) Effect of linguistic framing and information provision on attitudes towards induced seismicity and seismicity regulation. Scientific Reports, 12, Art. No.: 11239. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15448-4
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Boyd Williams N, Quilliam RS, Campbell B, Raha D, Baruah DC, Clarke ML, Sarma R, Haque C, Borah T & Dickie J (2022) Challenging perceptions of socio-cultural rejection of a taboo technology: Narratives of imagined transitions to domestic toilet-linked biogas in India. Energy Research and Social Science, 92, Art. No.: 102802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102802
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Boyd Williams N, Quilliam R, Campbell B, Ghatani R & Dickie J (2022) Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology. Energy Research and Social Science, 86, Art. No.: 102448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102448
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Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Dickie J, Evensen D, Varley A, Whitmarsh L & Bartie P (2021) Induced seismicity or political ploy?: Using a novel mix of methods to identify multiple publics and track responses over time to shale gas policy change. Energy Research and Social Science, 81, Art. No.: 102247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102247
Article
Effect of "finite pool of worry" and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions
Evensen D, Whitmarsh L, Bartie P, Devine-Wright P, Dickie J, Varley A, Ryder S & Mayer A (2021) Effect of "finite pool of worry" and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (3), Art. No.: e2018936118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018936118
Newspaper Article
Britain's public toilet shame: time for equal access to decent facilities for all
Boyd Williams N, Roxburgh H & Dickie J (2020) Britain's public toilet shame: time for equal access to decent facilities for all. The Conversation. 05.08.2020.
Article
Moving to or from a carbon dependent countryside
Phillips M & Dickie J (2019) Moving to or from a carbon dependent countryside. Journal of Transport Geography, 74, pp. 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.11.017
Book Chapter
Phillips M & Dickie J (2019) Post-carbon ruralities. In: Scott M, Gallent N & Gkartzios M (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning: A Handbook for Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 521-547. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102375
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Jarvis C, Kraftl P & Dickie J (2017) (Re)Connecting spatial literacy with children's geographies: GPS, Google Earth and children's everyday lives. Geoforum, 81, pp. 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.006
Conference Proceeding
Getting the right spatial mix: Optimising the size, type and location of renewable energy facilities
Comber A & Dickie J (2016) Getting the right spatial mix: Optimising the size, type and location of renewable energy facilities. In: Bailly J, Griffith D & Josselin D (eds.) Proceedings of Spatial Accuracy 2016. 12th Spatial Accuracy International Symposium 2016, Montpellier, France, 05.07.2016-08.07.2016. Montpellier, France: International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA), pp. 185-189.
Article
Phillips M & Dickie J (2015) Climate change, carbon dependency and narratives of transition and stasis in four English rural communities. Geoforum, 67, pp. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.011
Article
Comber A, Dickie J, Jarvis C, Phillips M & Tansey K (2015) Locating bioenergy facilities using a modified GIS-based location-allocation-algorithm: considering the spatial distribution of resource supply. Applied Energy, 154, pp. 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.128
Article
Mobile Learning in a Human Geography Field Course
Jarvis C, Tate N, Dickie J & Brown G (2015) Mobile Learning in a Human Geography Field Course. Journal of Geography, 115 (2), pp. 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2015.1026373
Article
Narratives of transition/non-transition towards low carbon futures within English rural communities
Phillips M & Dickie J (2014) Narratives of transition/non-transition towards low carbon futures within English rural communities. Journal of Rural Studies, 34, pp. 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.002
Article
Going mobile: Perspectives on aligning learning and teaching in geography
Jarvis C, Dickie J & Brown G (2013) Going mobile: Perspectives on aligning learning and teaching in geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 37 (1), pp. 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2012.694069
Article
Dickie J & Parsons AJ (2012) Eco-geomorphological processes within grasslands, shrublands and badlands in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa. Land Degradation and Development, 23 (6), pp. 534-547. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2170
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Bettinetti R, Quadroni S, Crosa G, Harper D, Dickie J, Kyalo M, Mavuti K & Galassi S (2011) A preliminary evaluation of the DDT contamination of sediments in lakes Natron and Bogoria (East Rift Valley, Africa). AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 40 (4), pp. 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0142-8
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Podcasts in support of experiential field learning
Jarvis C & Dickie J (2010) Podcasts in support of experiential field learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 34 (2), pp. 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098260903093653
