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Rosaleen Duffy

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Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield

I am a political ecologist and my research focuses on the international politics of conservation. I am particularly interested in strategies for tackling the illegal wildlife trade. My most recent book, Security and Conservation is published by Yale University Press (2022). I have held posts at the Universities of Lancaster, Manchester, SOAS and I joined the University of Sheffield in 2016.

During 2021-2023 I am Principal Investigator on an ESRC grant (£859,000) for Beastly Business: Examining the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Europe, more information https://beastlybusiness.org/ and on twitter @beastlyproject. The project analyses the inter relationships between legal and illegal wildlife trades in European brown bears, European eels and songbirds.

From 2016 to 2020 I held a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award (EUR 1.8 million) for the BIOSEC Project: Biodiversity and Security: understanding environmental crime, illegal wildlife trade and threat finance, more information https://biosec.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/ The project examined how and why the conservation and the security sectors became more integrated in tackling the illegal wildlife trade.

Experience

  • 2001–present
    Professor, University of Sheffield

Education

  • 1996 
    University of Lancaster, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Security and Conservation: the politics of the illegal wildlife trade, Yale University Press
  • 2011
    Capitalism and Conservation, Wiley
  • 2010
    Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong, Yale University Press
  • 2008
    Nature Unbound, Earthscan
  • 2003
    The Ethics of Tourism Development, Routledge
  • 2002
    A Trip Too Far, Earthscan
  • 2000
    Killing for Conservation, James Currey/Indiana University Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Beastly Business
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Economic and Social Research Council
  • 2019
    Convivial Conservation
    Role:
    Co-I
    Funding Source:
    Belmont Forum
  • 2016
    BIOSEC: Biodiversity and Security
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    ERC
  • 2015
    Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
    Role:
    Co-PI
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust
  • 2007
    Neoliberalising Nature
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    ESRC
  • 2004
    Global Environmental Governance and Local Resistances
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    ESRC
  • 2000
    The Geopolitics of Bioergions
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    ESRC

Professional Memberships

  • POLLEN