Simon Batterbury Visiting Professor, LEC, Lancaster University Personal website –
nothing to do with the University,
simonpjb "at" unimelb.edu.au
s.batterbury"at"lancaster.ac.uk Greetings! I work on the political ecology of natural
resources, and international development issues, as a university scholar and
occasional consultant and activist. I have newer interests in urban bike mobility.
I'm originally from the UK but have spent many years in other places, notably
Australia, the USA, West Africa and continental Europe. This site is oriented towards research and teaching
interests, and also contains (under Publications) online
versions almost everything I have written since 1993.
Favourite Quotes "It's no
use trying to be clever--we are all clever here; just try to be kind--a
little kind". F.J. Foakes Jackson (a Cambridge academic, talking to a
new arrival at the University, early 1900s) "Generally it is
our failures that civilise us. Triumph confirms us in our habits". Clive
James. 1980. Unreliable Memoirs. Picador. p65
PhD students: I
have usually run a group
working on environment & development, international development,
political ecology topics and engaged research, and received an award
for being the University's best PhD supervisor in 2019. I spend a great deal of time working
with Masters students, mainly from the Master of Environment, OEP, where 'streams' could
be chosen including 'development' and 'conservation'. I occasionally have honours students in geography (Honours is an
undergrad 4th year with a 20,000 wd. thesis in
Australia) Other jobs: ·
From Jan 2017-June 2019 I was the inaugural
Professor of Political Ecology at Lancaster University in the UK, in the renowned LEC, as, part of a new
cluster of scholars in this field and teaching on extremely
good geography degrees and Masters programmes. But
I am a 'Brexit refugee' and missed my family back in Melbourne. ·
In 2015, visiting fellow
at Cosmopolis, VUB,
Brussels. ·
From 2008-12 I was seconded to direct
the University’s Office
for Environmental Programs, which offers interdisciplinary taught
post-graduate degrees in the environmental field to 400 students. It has been
widely recognized for its innovative teaching model. Described in an OA
article here ·
In 2007-8 I was a James Martin
Fellow at ECI, University of
Oxford, UK in a unit focussing on climate change policy. ·
I used to teach at the University of
Arizona (USA), the London School of Economics ( ·
I’ve
also lived in ·
In my neighbourhood
of Melbourne, Northcote, I sat on several environmental committees and currently
volunteer at We-Cycle where
we fix up bikes for those who need them.
Visit us on Saturdays. · Press
on Batterbury family garden, Bath, UK
(house sold, 2017)
Dr Simon Batterbury est géographe et
spécialiste de la gestion des ressources naturelles et des politiques
environnementales en Afrique (Burkina, Niger) et dans la zone Asie-Pacifique
(Nouvelle-Calédonie, Timor-Leste). Né en Angleterre, docteur de la Clark
University (Etats-Unis, 1997) sur le thème du développement rural au Burkina
Faso, il est aujourd’hui Associate Professor à University of
Melbourne et il a été le premier professeur
d'écologie politique à l'Université de Lancaster, 2017-2019. Entre-temps, il
a travaillé à l’Université de Brunel à Londres, à la London School of Economics, et à
l’Université d’Arizona (Etats-Unis). Auteur d’une soixantaine d’articles et
de 6 «collections», il a reçu plusieurs « research
grants ». |
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