@helenahastie.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Exeter, focusing on renewable energy transitions and electricity access in southern Africa.
This Is Fascism
12.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 30147 🔁 12638 💬 700 📌 764
Really pleased that my new paper on electricity generation in Southern Africa has been published: doi.org/10.1088/2753...
05.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great to have a chance to present my new paper on peripheral electricity generation in Southern Africa at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference. In this paper I look specifically at electricity generation in Namibia and Eswatini 🌍
29.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 13,225 MW. That's enough to run 12,595,238 washing machines.
Right now #wind is meeting 60% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk
04.08.2025 09:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Svalbard is at the front line of the climate crisis, warming at six to seven times the global average rate"
www.404media.co/scientists-r...
Graduation!
21.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just got back from a fantastic research trip to Limpopo Province, South Africa. Our team is investigating solar power being constructed on tribal land, identifying challenges and best practice
@exeter.ac.uk #ExeterGeography #Solar #Energy
What a fantastic two days sharing my paper and listening to so many fascinating speakers. Thank you to the organisers of @earlymodern2025.bsky.social for such an excellent conference!
11.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are advertising its AI+ Academic Fellowships: three years of 80% ‘protected’ research time (i.e. minimal teaching and admin) with a view to a permanent academic position. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
Love to see feminist geographical research represented!
At @cardiffuniversity.bsky.social leadership are slashing jobs while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan
@drjogrady.bsky.social tells the Education Select Committee what universities are spending on while making staff redundant
#StopTheCuts
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
I'm recruiting women in farming for my PhD research! Please share with any farming contacts living/working near Okehampton, London, Wisbech, Market Rasen, Stokesley, and Penrith! #PhDbyBike
09.04.2025 10:49 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 2Reminder that Exeter are currently advertising a 1 year post for an #EarlyModern #History lecturer to cover teaching while my colleague and I are on research leave during year 3 of our Leverhulme project:
10.04.2025 06:36 — 👍 25 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 0PGR paper prize from the Energy Geographies research group of the RGS
#AcademicSky
#Energy #Geography
@aag-energy.bsky.social
The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live!
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
05.04.2025 20:21 — 👍 37697 🔁 7904 💬 522 📌 489
Excellent news and proper justice for once!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
📢 NEW activism award from the EnGRG. Please do share with your networks 📢
27.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic day in Avignon on our Exeter Geography field course, learning about sustainable food production in the city.
#AcademicSky #Avignon #ExeterGeography
Taking our final year @exeter.ac.uk students on the first fieldtrip to Avignon, France. The whole trip is via rail, as #ExeterGeography decarbonises field courses. Led by the fantastic Dr @rebeccasandover.bsky.social
25.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT.
@isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
It was great to get the opportunity to present at the Geog dept seminar on the topic of motherhood and fieldwork, leading to interesting discussions on barriers to fieldwork #exetergeography #academicsky #geography
23.03.2025 13:13 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...
20.03.2025 11:32 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
“We have seen an absolutely astonishing rise of solar installations in Britain and also globally. That’s because the cost of solar has plummeted. It has become so cheap that some solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles or fence panels.”
Me in the ipaper inews.co.uk/news/environ...
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
16.03.2025 08:09 — 👍 339 🔁 64 💬 22 📌 11Very happy to share a new paper on energy poverty, co-authored with Dr Leila Dawney and @drcatbutler.bsky.social
07.03.2025 18:12 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics.
The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
