Jessica Pykett

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Past and current students:

Fiona Clarke (ESRC 1+3) (2021-), “Compassion, Performance, and Wellbeing in Female Athletes” (with Prof Jennifer Cumming, SportExR)

Jessy Williams (ESRC 1+3) (2019-2024) “A critical posthuman geography of digital youth mental health” Partner: (anon) national youth mental health charity (with Prof Matthew Broome, Institute for Mental Health, and Prof Dominique Moran, GEES)

Alice Menzel (ESRC 1+3) (2018-2024) “The emotional geographies of expectant fathering” (with Prof Peter Kraftl, GEES)

Rita Gayle (AHRC) (2017- 2024) “The Collective Utopia: Black British Feminists’ Creative Escape from the Margins of Society” (with Prof Patricia Noxolo, GEES)

Victoria James (MRes 2020-2024) “The role of repair cafés in addressing the value action gap relating to clothing repair”

Shivani Singh (ESRC 1+3) (2017-2023) “Exploring responses of the police and support services to Islamophobia” (secondments: Home Office, Stop Hate UK) (with Dr Phil Jones, GEES)

Hannah Absalom (ESRC +3) (2018-2023) “An investigation of Behavioural Public Policy in social housing in England” Collaborative Studentship with Collaborative Change. (with Prof Andy Lymer and Dr James Gregory. School of Social Policy)

Grace Wood (UoB studentship) (2019- 2022) “Co-creating age- and activity-friendly urban environments with older citizens and community stakeholders” (with Prof Afroditit Stathi, SportExR)

Maria Jesus Alfaro Munoz, (Peru Government funding) (2018-2021) “Youth happiness in the city: young people's experiences of happiness in the urban environment of Lima, Peru” (with Prof Peter Kraftl and Prof Sophie Hadfield-Hill, GEES)

Tessa Osborne (ESRC 1+3) (2015-2019) "Embodying heritage: a biosocial investigation into urban conservation areas" (with Dr Phil Jones, GEES)

Deyala Altarawneh (Jordanian Government stipend) (2013-2017) “Derelict landscapes of Amman: Unfolding the potential of neglected terrains” (with Dr Phil Jones and Dr Lauren Andres, GEES)

David Bovell (ESRC) (2012-2016) "Mobility, immobility and empowerment: the importance of place in shaping the educational outcomes of children in care" (awarded posthumously) (with Dr Simon Pemberton and Dr Jonathan Oldfield, GEES)

Forough Jafary: (Iranian Government stipend) (2010-2016) ‘Participatory Modelling platform for groundwater irrigation management with local farmers in Iran (Kashan)’ (with Dr Chris Bradley, GEES)

Professor Pykett welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers with project proposals 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
Museums which create, imagine and educate about future worlds

Research activity per year

45 Article
15 Chapter
9 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
8 Book
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2024
Infrastructuring Educational Genomics: Associations, Architectures, and Apparatuses
Williamson, B., Kotouza, D., Pickersgill, M. & Pykett, J., 3 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Postdigital Science and Education.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2023
Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments
Improving Your Local Area Citizen Scientists and Community Stakeholders, Jan 2023, In: Health and Place. 79, 9 p., 102954.
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Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?
Pykett, J., Ball, S., Dingwall, R., Lepenies, R., Sommer, T., Strassheim, H. & Wenzel, L., 2023, In: Evidence and Policy. 19, 2, p. 236–255 20 p.
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Understanding the ‘degree awarding gap’ in geography, planning, geology and environmental sciences in UK higher education through peer research
Singh, S., Pykett, J., Kraftl, P., Guisse, A., Hodgson, E., Humelnicu, U. E., Keen, N., Kéïta, S., McNaney, N., Menzel, A., N’dri, K., N’goran, K. J., Oldknow, G., Tiéné, R. & Weightman, W., 2023, In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 47, 2, p. 227-247 21 p.
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Urban precarity and youth mental health: an interpretive scoping review of emerging approaches
Members of the Institute for Mental Health Youth Advisory Group, Mar 2023, In: Social Science and Medicine. 320, 15 p., 115619.
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2022
Active and healthy ageing in urban environments: laying the groundwork for solution-building through citizen science
Wood, G. E. R., Pykett, J. & Stathi, A., 14 Sept 2022, In: Health Promotion International. 37, 4, p. 1-13 13 p., daac126.
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Knowledge: Wellbeing in global public policy
Pykett, J., 30 Sept 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Social Change. Ballard, R. & Barnett, C. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Routledge, p. 232-243 12 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Mental health monitoring apps for depression and anxiety in children and young people: a scoping review and critical ecological analysis
Williams, J. E. & Pykett, J., Mar 2022, In: Social Science and Medicine. 297, 15 p., 114802.
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Spatialising happiness economics: global metrics, urban politics, and embodied technologies
Pykett, J., 21 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 47, 3, p. 635-650
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Stressing the ‘body electric’: history and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress
Pykett, J. & Paterson, M., 21 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: History of the Human Sciences. p. 1-28 28 p.
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The role of urban environments in promoting active and healthy aging: a systematic scoping review of citizen science approaches
Wood, G., Pykett, J., Daw, P., Agyapong-Badu, S., Banchoff, A., King, A. C. & Stathi, A., Jun 2022, In: Journal of Urban Health. 99, 3, p. 427–456 30 p.
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Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing
Pykett, J., 15 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. p. 1-19 19 p.
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2021
Be happy: navigating normative issues in behavioral and well-being public policy
Fabian, M. & Pykett, J., 8 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2021, 00, p. 1-14
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Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis, chaos and catastrophe
Pykett, J. & Lavis, A., 20 Aug 2021, Living with Pandemics: Places, People and Policy. Bryson, J. R., Andres, L., Ersoy, A. & Reardon, L. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 227-236 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2020
Developing a Citizen Social Science approach to understand urban stress and promote wellbeing in urban communities
Pykett, J., Chrisinger, B., Kalliopi, K., Osborne, T., Resch, B., Stathi, A., Toth, E. & Whittaker, A., 6 May 2020, In: Palgrave Communications. 6, 1, 11 p., 85.
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24 Citations (Scopus)

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From Urban Stress to Neurourbanism: How Should We Research City Well-Being?
Pykett, J., Osborne, T. & Resch, B., 1 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110, 6, p. 1936-1951
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus)
Questioning post-political perspectives on the psychological state: behavioural public policy in the Netherlands
Whitehead, M., Jones, R. & Pykett, J., 1 Mar 2020, In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 38, 2, p. 214-232 19 p.
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Urban emotion sensing beyond ‘affective capture’: Advancing critical interdisciplinary methods
Pykett, J., Chrisinger, B. W., Kyriakou, K., Osborne, T., Resch, B., Stathi, A. & Whittaker, A. C., 1 Dec 2020, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17, 23, p. 1-22 22 p., 9003.
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1 Citation (Scopus)
2019
A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy
Pykett, J., 2019, Towards a Spatial Social Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy. Whitworth, A. (ed.). Bristol, Policy Press
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Detecting moments of stress from measurements of wearable physiological sensors
Resch, B., Kyriakou, K., Sagl, G., Petutschnig, A., Werner, C., Niederseer, D., Liedlgruber, M., Wilhelm, F., osborne, T. & Pykett, J., 3 Sept 2019, In: Sensors. 19, 17, 26 p., 3805.
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Healthy nations: behavioural approaches in public health policy
Pykett, J., 2019, Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Ewert, B. & Loer, K. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 53-72 20 p. (Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research).
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Nudging around the world: a critical geography of the behaviour change agenda
Whitehead, M., Jones, R. & Pykett, J., 2019, Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy. Strassheim, H. & Beck, S. (eds.). Edward Elgar, (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series ).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2018
Forensic neuropsychology: Social, cultural, and political implications
Pykett, J., 23 Feb 2018, The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience. R. Beech, A., J. Carter, A., E. Mann, R. & Rotshtein, P. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, Vol. 2. p. 917-935 19 p.
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Geography and neuroscience: critical engagements with geography’s ‘neural turn’
Pykett, J., Jun 2018, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43, 2, p. 154-169
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Neuroliberalism: Cognition, Context, and the Geographical Bounding of Rationality
Whitehead, M., Jones, R., Lilley, R., Howell, R. & Pykett, J., 4 Jun 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Progress in Human Geography.
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2017

Behavioural Government as a Global Phenomenon
Pykett, J., Mar 2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
Biosocial spaces and neurocomputational governance: brain-based and brain-targeted technologies in education
Williamson, B., Pykett, J. & Nemorin, S., 27 Oct 2017, In: Discourse. p. 1-18
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Introduction: Governing With Feeling
Pykett, J., Jupp, E. & Smith, F., 2 Jan 2017, Emotional States: Sites and Spaces of Affective Governance. London: Routledge, 21 p.
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Mapping Happiness, Managing Urban Emotions
Pykett, J. & Cromby, J., 2017, Assembling neoliberalism: expertise, practices, subjects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 195-216 21 p. 10
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5 Citations (Scopus)
Neuroliberalism: behavioural government in the twenty-first century
Whitehead, M., Jones, R., Lilley, R., Pykett, J. & Howell, R., 6 Sept 2017, Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis. 224 p. (Economics in the Real World)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
21 Citations (Scopus)
Towards a critical neuro-geography of affective governance
Pykett, J., 23 Jun 2017, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Paper
“Shaping policy makers’ emotional engagements with behaviour change”
Pykett, J., Howell, R., Lilley, R., Jones, R. & Whitehead, M., 2 Jan 2017, Emotional States : Sites and Spaces of Affective Governance. jupp, E., pykett, J. & smith, F. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 69-84
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2016
Brain-targeted teaching and the biopolitical child
Pykett, J. & Disney, T., 1 Jan 2016, Politics, citizenship and rights. Pauliina Kallio, K., Mills, S. & Skelton, T. (eds.). Springer Singapore, p. 133-152 20 p. (Geographies of children and young people; vol. 7).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1 Citation (Scopus)
Changing behaviour
Pykett, J., 2016, (Accepted/In press) The Student’s Companion to Social Policy. Alcock, P., May, M., Haux, T. & Wright, S. (eds.). 5th ed. Wiley-Blackwell
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Emotional states: sites and spaces of affective governance
Jupp, E., Pykett, J. & Smith, F. M., 4 Oct 2016, London: Taylor & Francis. 266 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
20 Citations (Scopus)
From global economic change to neuromolecular capitalism
Pykett, J., 2016, Neuroscience and critique: exploring the limits of the neurological turn. De Vos, J. & Pluth, E. (eds.). Routledge
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Governing mindfully: shaping policy makers’ emotional engagements with behaviour change
Pykett, J., Howell, R., Lilley, R., Jones, R. & Whitehead, M., 4 Oct 2016, Emotional states: sites and spaces of affective governance. Jupp, E., Pykett, J. & M. Smith, F. (eds.). London: Taylor & Francis, p. 69-84 16 p.
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1 Citation (Scopus)
Introduction: psychological governance and public policy
Pykett, J., Jones, R. & Whitehead, M., 28 Oct 2016, Psychological governance and public policy: governing the mind, brain and behaviour. Pykett, J., Jones, R. & Whitehead, M. (eds.). London: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-20 20 p. (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics).
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Introduction: governing with feeling
Pykett, J., Jupp, E. & Smith, F. M., 4 Oct 2016, Emotional states: sites and spaces of affective governance. Jupp, E., Pykett, J. & M. Smith, F. (eds.). London: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-18 18 p.
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7 Citations (Scopus)
Mindfulness, Behaviour Change and Decision Making: An experimental trial
Pykett, J., Lilley, R., Whitehead, M., Howell, R. & Jones, R., 1 Jan 2016, University of Birmingham. 55 p.
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Psychological Governance and Public Policy: Governing the mind, brain and behaviour
Pykett, J. (ed.), Jones, R. (ed.) & Whitehead, M. (ed.), 28 Oct 2016, London: Routledge. 158 p. (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Some critiques: From global economic change to neuromolecular capitalism
Pykett, J., 1 Jan 2016, Neuroscience and Critique: Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. Taylor and Francis, p. 81-99 19 p.
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2015
(Re)inhabiting awareness: geography and mindfulness
Whitehead, M., Lilley, R., Howell, R., Jones, R. & Pykett, J., 28 Oct 2015, In: Social and Cultural Geography. 17, 4, p. 553-573 21 p.
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12 Citations (Scopus)

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Brain-based teaching and the biopolitical child
Pykett, J. & Disney, T., 14 Nov 2015, Politics, citizenship and rights. Kallio, K., Mills, S. & Skelton, T. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 7. p. 133-152 (Geographies of Children and Young People ).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Brain Culture. Shaping policy through neuroscience.
Pykett, J., Jul 2015, Bristol: Bristol, Policy Press. 213 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Geographies of brain culture: Optimism and optimisation in workplace training programmes
Pykett, J. & Enright, B., 2015, In: Cultural Geographies.
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Reclaiming public action from theories of securitization
Pykett, J., 1 Nov 2015, In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 5, 3, p. 284-286 3 p.
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1 Citation (Scopus)
2014

Mindfulness intervention evaluation report
Lilley, R., Whitehead, M., Howell, R., Jones, R. & Pykett, J., Oct 2014, Changing Behaviours.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Representing Attitudes to Welfare Dependency: Relational Geographies of Welfare
Pykett, J., 15 Aug 2014, In: Sociological Research Online. 19, 3, 23.
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The art of choosing and the politics of social marketing
Pykett, J., Jones, R., Welsh, M. & Whitehead, M., May 2014, In: Policy Studies. 35, 2, p. 97-114 18 p.
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