Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Dr Pykett welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in her areas of interest, including:
Emotional politics and emotional regulation
Behavioural public policy and neuroscience informed public policy
Digital affective governance
Embodied geographies and critical social theories of the body, mind and emotions
Critical neuroscience approaches to urban design, architecture, built environment
Geographies of welfare, wellbeing and mental health
Psychological governance and citizenship
Government advertising, communications, social marketing
Ethics advisory bodies
Research activity per year
Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer with research interests in citizenship, governance, and political subjectivities. Her research to date has focused on affective and emotional techniques of governance, and the influence of neuroscience and behavioural science on public policy and economic theory. Current work is on the intersections of neuroscience and geography, concepts of urban stress and urban wellbeing, political geographies of emotional regulation, and tracing the sociodigital futures imagined and deployed in research, applications and governance within these fields.
She is currently Principal Investigator of the ESRC Ethics and Expertise project, and Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Biology, Data Science and the Making of Precision Education project and ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Before joining the University of Birmingham in September 2012, Jessica was a lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University. Here she worked on a Leverhulme funded grant on the ‘Time-Spaces of Soft-Paternalism’. Previously she was an ESRC research fellow at The Open University and has held research positions at the University of Bristol and Futurelab Education.
PhD, University of Bristol
MSc Society and Space, University of Bristol
BSc Geography, University of Bristol
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Economic & Social Research Council
1/10/23 → 30/09/24
Project: Research Councils
Economic & Social Research Council
1/05/23 → 31/10/26
Project: Research Councils
Economic & Social Research Council
1/05/22 → 30/04/27
Project: Research Councils
Economic & Social Research Council
1/06/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research Councils
Pykett, J. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 4 Aug 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D2FOTT
Dataset
Jessica Pykett (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Grant peer review
Jessica Pykett (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Grant peer review
Jessica Pykett (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Grant peer review
Jessica Pykett (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Grant peer review
Jessica Pykett (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Grant peer review
Pykett, Jessica (Recipient), 23 Dec 2021
Prize: Other distinction
17/09/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
11/09/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media