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Professor Klaus Dodds (Director)
Professor Klaus Dodds researches in the areas of geopolitics (including the popular geopolitics of James Bond and 
Cartoonists, such as Steve Bell) and the international governance of the Antarctic. He has published four books including Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction (2005) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (2002). He has completed a book for Oxford University Press entitled Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction and has recently completed an edited book with alan Ingram (UCL) on Spaces of In/Security: New Geographies of the War on Terror (Ashgate 2009) .
He continues to work closely with national governmental agencies and research institutions including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Antarctica New Zealand and the Royal Society in terms of advising on Antarctic policy-related and educational outreach programmers. In November 2005, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research achievements in the field of geopolitics and human geography.
He is on the editorial boards of Geopolitics, Journal of Middle Eastern Geopolitics, Polar Record, Political Geography and Transactions.
Dr. Luiza Bialasiewicz’s main interests lie with the political geographies of European integration and an emergent ‘EU geopolitics’. Current research focuses on the ways in which evolving notions of EU border management are re-configuring understandings and practices of territorial sovereignty and international jurisdiction (looking, in particular, at the 'out-sourcing' of EU border controls in the Mediterranean).
Dr. Bialasiewicz has been awarded a three month Visiting Research Fellowship by the International Centre for Economic Research. She will be spending October-December 2010 at the Institute’s Torino campus at Villa Gualino: http://www.icer.it/
Dr. Mary Dengler is a Lecturer in Environmental Geography and is interested in environmental governance for sustainability, particularly the politics in collaborative environmental governance. She is interested in the governance of natural resources through strategies that consider the inter-connections amongst the socio-political, economic and environmental perspectives of issues towards developing equitable and sustainable solutions at appropriate spatial scales. While her interests extend into a range of contested resources (biodiversity, fisheries, forestry, climate change), she particularly enjoys researching the politics surrounding water governance and has expertise in the politics underlying the development of equitable policies for the governance of wetlands, including the Florida Everglades and UK lowlands. With Dr. Danielle Schreve, she is currently researching the use and perception of the use of wild horses for sustainable management of UK lowlands, a research project funded by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers as part of their ‘Geographical Perspectives on Global Change Research Programme’. She is also the Deputy Director of the MSc Sustainability and Management.
Dr. Sara Fregonese’s main research interests include urban geopolitics (especially the idea of urbicide); geopolitical knowledges of state and non-state actors; the political geographies of sectarianism.
Her main empirical focus is Beirut. Having completed her PhD in 2008 on the urban geopolitics of the Lebanese civil war, she was then awarded a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, extending her research to the contemporary urban geopolitics of Beirut. Between her doctoral and postdoctoral studies, she also worked on an ESRC-funded project about the socio-spatial aspects of radicalisation across a range of cities (University of Manchester).
Dr. Peter French researches in the areas of estuarine and coastal management, in particular, the human interaction (both contemporary, historical and archaeological) in estuarine and coastal environments, public perceptions and understandings of coastal processes, and the process of coastal management in the context of local and national government structures. He has published two books, Coastal & Estuarine Management (1997) and Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions (2001), as well as various book chapters and academic papers.
He is on the editorial board of Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science, and has worked with national agencies and research bodies, including DEFRA, English Nature, and NERC.
Alex Loftus is co-organising a conference on the Right to Water with Farhana Sultana to be held at Syracuse University on March 29 and 30, 2010. The event will explore how universal calls for the right to water articulate with local historical and geographical contexts. It will engage an interdisciplinary network of scholars and practitioners and highlight key debates via keynote lectures and papers presented by leading figures from the academic, policy and activist communities. Further details are available at: http://www1.maxwell.syr.edu/waterconference.aspx
Dr Alasdair Pinkerton's main research interests lie with critical geopolitics, media and the contested geopolitics of South Asia. Having completed his PhD in 2006, he was subsequently awarded a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a project entitled 'Radio geopolitics: the BBC World Service and the Cold War in South Asia'. He has forthcoming articles in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Journal of Historical Geography. The three year fellowship will enable him to complete a monograph on the role of the BBC World Service as 'Britain's voice around the world', with particular reference to post-partition South Asia.
Professor Adam Tickell
Professor Adam Tickell is Vice Principal (Research, Enterprise and Communications) and an economic geographer. His research interests span political and economic geography, and he is particularly interested in questions of political devolution, regulation, markets and money.
He is a member of the ESRC's Research Grants Board and International Advisory Committee and chaired the Geography Panel in the ESRC's Research Training Recognition Exercise 2005-6. He is also on the advisory board of the ESRC's World Economy and Finance Board.
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