Role
My role within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences is Professor of Environmental Politics, specialising in climate and energy politics and other sustainability issues.
 Qualifications and Background
 I gained a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Birmingham in 1987, and an MSc in Social Research in 1996 and a PhD in 2000 (both University of Plymouth). I pursued a management career between 1987 and 1998 before returning to academia.
 Research and Teaching Interests
My research and teaching interests span various aspects of environmental politics and sustainability, from climate change and the social dimensions of renewable energy to grassroots sustainability transitions, education for sustainable development, waste management, and societal engagement with marine environments. Geographically, my research focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the EU, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
These interests are strongly reflected in my undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, where I teach modules on Sustainable Futures, Environmental Politics and Governance, Global Environmental Solutions, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainability: Science, Governance and Society.
My recent work includes the politics of carbon markets, political strategising in national and international climate politics, the anchoring effect of climate change acts on national climate policies, and linkages between media coverage and governance activity on plastics and other environmental problems. General I am a member of the University of Plymouth's Sustainable Earth Institute Executive and have served on the Devon Net Zero Task Force and Climate Task Force since 2019.  I have been an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports.

Editorial board member: Geography Compass
Adjunct visiting fellow: Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

My research interests in environmental and sustainability issues are reflected across my contributions to teaching on the Geography and Environmental Science Undergraduate programmes and the MRes/MSc Sustainable Environmental Management.

Undergraduate

GGX1206 Sustainable Futures

GGH3210 Environmental Politics and Governance

GGX3200 Dissertation in Geography

ENVS2003 Environmental Management and Sustainability

ENVS3013 Global Environmental Solutions

ENVS3016 Climate science and policy

 

Postgraduate

GEES516 Science, Society and Environmental Governance

GEES519 From field to stakeholder

GEES520 MSc Dissertation