Personal profile
Current Research Interests
Cultural and historical geography; geopolitics; visual culture; histories of social and scientific knowledge; the Cold War; the history of astronautics; Scotland in the twentieth century; the Hebrides; the politics and practice of folklore.
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Losing Our Religion
MacDonald, J. F., 31 Aug 2025, 6 p. Belfast : Irish Pages.Research output: Other contribution
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On Compost
MacDonald, J. F., 17 Apr 2025, 2 p. London : London Review of Books.Research output: Other contribution
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Remembering Nan Shepherd
MacDonald, J. F., 23 Jan 2025, 2 p. London : London Review of Books.Research output: Other contribution
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Scottish locale example no. 1: Levenhall Links, East Lothian
MacDonald, J. F., 10 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scottish Geographical Journal. 141, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Send Back The Money
MacDonald, J. F., 3 Jun 2024, London : London Review of Books.Research output: Other contribution
Prizes
Projects
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Rockets Galore: space science and the geopolitics of the Corporal missile
MacDonald, F. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/12 → 30/06/12
Project: Research
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From Space Exploration to Scotland's Cold War: testing and contesting the world's first nuclear missile
MacDonald, F. (Principal Investigator)
1/01/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
Datasets
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Clumped isotope data from high-pH anthropogenic tufa in the Howden Burn, Consett, North East England
Holdsworth, C. (Creator), MacDonald, J. (Creator) & John, C. (Creator), NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre, 2022
DOI: 10.5285/61ec053d-b8f9-4ec7-8d98-8423bf253bef, https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/nationalgeosciencedatacentre/citedData/catalogue/61ec053d-b8f9-4ec7-8d98-8423bf253bef.html
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Press/Media
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JPL’s rough ride: Can California’s shining star of space science recover?
19/10/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Let Kinloch Castle fall into curated decay – and become the ruin that Scotland needs
27/08/21 → 25/03/23
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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LA Made: The Other Moonshot: Blood, Sweat and Rockets
15/11/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment