Simon Batterbury
Visiting Professor, LEC, Lancaster University Personal and professional 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 de la political ecology 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 centaine centaine d’articles et de 6 «collections», il a reçu plusieurs « research grants ». |
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