Senior Lecturer
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
I am a senior lecturer in environment geography at the University of Stirling. As an inter-disciplinary researcher, my work focuses on the socio-environmental and socio-technical interactions of the energy landscape.
Brief biography
•Lecturer (0.2) in Environmental Geography, Department of Geography, University of Leicester. 2014-2015
Postdoctoral Research Positions
•Rural Hybrid Energy Enterprise Systems (RHEES), EPSRC ‘Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide’ Programme Grant on biogas & gasification in India & UK. 2012-2015
•Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-Industrial Places, 1970s to the Present’ (DIGICROP), AHRC. 2014-2015
•Adaptations to Rural Communities through Living with Climate Change, RCUK Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme Grant. 2011-2012
•New Urbanisms, New Citizens: Children and Young People’s Everyday Life and Participation in Sustainable Communities (NUNC), ESRC. 2010
•Field IT for East Africa, British Council DelPHE Award Programme. 2009-2010
•Spatial Literacy in Learning and Teaching CETL (SPLINT), HEFCE. 2007-2010
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
BES Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitee
Chair
BES Sustainability Committee
Chair
Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Member
Anti-Racism & Race Equality Steering Committee
Member
Gender Equality/Athena Swan Steering Committee
Faculty representative
Stirling Crucible Organising Committee
Co-organiser
Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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CCUS Futures: exploring workforce imaginaries to improve organisational learning
PI: Dr Jennifer Dickie
Funded by: UK Research and Innovation
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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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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:
Funded by: Economic and Social 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
Place-pedagogies of water stress
Wilson A, Black G, Petersen L, Dick L, Ncube S, Mpofu-Mketwa T, Abrams A, Carden K, Piper L, Dickie J, Hamilton-Smith N & Lamb G (2025) Place-pedagogies of water stress. Global Social Challenges, 20 (20), pp. 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1332/27523349Y2025D000000034
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Whitmarsh L, Gan YS, Devine-Wright P, Evensen D, Dickie J, Connon I, Varley A, Ryder S & Bartie P (2025) Who is the 'public' when it comes to public opinion on energy? A mixed-methods study of revealed and elicited public attitudes to shale gas extraction. Energy Research & Social Science, 119, Art. No.: 103840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103840
Article
Nurturing a New Industry Rooted in Geoscience: Stakeholder Insights on Minewater Thermal in Scotland
Deeming KB, Dickie J, Roberts JJ & Shipton ZK (2024) Nurturing a New Industry Rooted in Geoscience: Stakeholder Insights on Minewater Thermal in Scotland. Earth Science, Systems and Society, 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2024.10121
Article
Grace MJ, Dickie J, Bartie PJ & Oliver DM (2024) Health and wellbeing (dis)benefits of accessing inland blue spaces over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Landscape and Urban Planning, 252, Art. No.: 105178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105178
Article
Future ordinaries: assembling place-based knowledges and literacies in real and imagined harmscapes
Wilson A, Robertson G & Dickie J (2024) Future ordinaries: assembling place-based knowledges and literacies in real and imagined harmscapes. Futures, 159, Art. No.: 103376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103376
Research Report
Napier H, Dickie J, Akhurst M, Badcock N, Chang T, Dunnet E, Robinson T, Vincent C, Akinola K & Dale T (2024) Societal and cultural research opportunities at a deep UK geological carbon dioxide storage research facility: results from a social science ‘sandpit’ discussion. Pearce J (Editor) British Geological Survey. https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537038
Article
Grace M, Dickie J, Brown C, Bartie P & Oliver DM (2024) Using solicited research diaries to assess the restorative potential of exposure to inland blue space across time. Landscape and Urban Planning, 241, p. 104904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104904
Article
Living the life of floods: place-based learning in an Anthropocene harmscape
Dickie J, Wilson A, Dick L, Ncube S, Abrams A, Black G, Blair N, Carden K, Hamilton-Smith N, Lamb G, Mpofu-Mketwa T, Petersen L & Robertson G (2023) Living the life of floods: place-based learning in an Anthropocene harmscape. Geoforum, 147, Art. No.: 103914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103914
Article
Ncube S, Wilson A, Petersen L, Black G, Abrams A, Carden K, Dick L, Dickie J, Gibson L, Hamilton-Smith N, Ireland A, Lamb G, Mpofu-Mketwa T, Piper L & Swanson D (2023) Understanding resilience capitals, agency and habitus in household experiences of water scarcity, floods and fire in marginalized settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 8 (1), Art. No.: 100710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100710
Article
Grace MJ, Dickie J, Bartie PJ, Brown C & Oliver DM (2023) How do weather conditions and environmental characteristics influence aesthetic preferences of freshwater environments?. Science of The Total Environment, 903, Art. No.: 166283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166283
Article
Grace MJ, Dickie J, Bartie P, Brown C & Oliver DM (2023) Understanding Health Outcomes from Exposure to Blue Space Resources: Towards a Mixed Methods Framework for Analysis. Resources, 12 (11), Art. No.: 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources12110135
Article
Ryder SS, Dickie JA & Devine‐Wright P (2023) “Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities. Rural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12513
Article
Great Britain's spatial twitter activity related to ‘fracking’
Bartie P, Varley A, Dickie J, Evensen D, Devine-Wright P, Ryder S, Whitmarsh L & Foad C (2023) Great Britain's spatial twitter activity related to ‘fracking’. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 103, Art. No.: 101978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2023.101978
Article
Roberts JJ, Gooding L, Ford R & Dickie J (2023) Moving From “Doing to” to “Doing With”: Community Participation in Geoenergy Solutions for Net Zero—The Case of Minewater Geothermal. Earth Science, Systems and Society, 3, Art. No.: 10071. https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2023.10071
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
Article
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
Article
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
Research Report
Briefing 3: Shale Gas Governance: devolution and localism
Cotton M, Gonzalez A & Dickie J (2021) Briefing 3: Shale Gas Governance: devolution and localism. ESRC. http://www.ukuh.org/media/sites/researchwebsites/2ukuh/89490%20Governance%20Devolution%20and%20Localism.pdf
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 / Magazine
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
Article
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 Paper (published)
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
Article
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
Article
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
I teach across the honours years at undergraduate level, and at postgraduate level:
ENVU5EP (Environmental Policy & Management) - module coordinator & lecturer
ENVU6SP (Sustainable Landscapes) - module coordinator & lecturer
GEOU9SE (Energy & Society) - lecturer
ENMPG22 (Environmental Impact Assessment) - lecturer
ENMPG23 (Environmental Costs of Energy Production - lecturer
GEOU9PR (Honours Research Dissertation) - supervisor
ENMPG18 (MSc Research Dissertation) - supervisor
I also currently supervise Postgraduate Research Students at PhD level.
