Dr Alasdair Pinkerton

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• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
• Member of the Politics & Environment Research Group (PERG)
• Web Editor of The Geographical Journal
• Editorial Board Member: The Geographical Journal

Alasdair Pinkerton graduated with an MA in Geography from the University of St. Andrews in 2001. He then moved to Royal Holloway, where he completed the MA Cultural Geography (2002) and am ESRC-funded PhD, entitled "Radio Geopolitics: the BBC World Service as Britain's 'Voice around the World'." His PhD was supervised by Prof. Klaus Dodds and was completed in late-2006. Alasdair has also been seconded to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) where he authored a parliamentary report on the issue of 'Pervasive Computing' and the increasing ubiquity of micro-electronic technology within our built environment.

Alasdair researches in the areas of critical geopolitics, the media, and the 'international relations' of public diplomacy. He has developed particular interests in the geopolitics of the South Atlantic (Falkland Islands, Argentina and Chile) and South Asia (India, Pakistan and Afghanistan). His latest project is supported by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-10) and investigates the geo-strategic role of international broadcasting during the Cold War. In January 2009 Alasdair was awarded a further British Academy Small Research Grant to undertake a project to investigate US public diplomacy strategy at the height of the Cold War, 1950-1965.

He has recent publications in the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society', 'Twentieth Century British History', and the 'Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'.

Alasdair regularly participates in international conferences, seminars and workshops. Most recently he has delivered lectures at the IGU's Commission on Political Geography, hosted at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (7-11 July 2010), and at the Royal Asiatic Society in London (India and the Everyday State workshop). You can hear Alasdair deliver his lecture - entitled ‘Tuning In’: Radio Listening and ‘Aerial Sovereignty’ on the India-Pakistan Border (1950-1970) - here.