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Simon Batterbury

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Professor, Environmental Studies & Convenor, Melbourne Climate Futures Academy, The University of Melbourne

Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia and formerly Chair of Political Ecology, LEC, Lancaster University, UK [2017-19].
Environment and development issues, environmental policy, bicycle policy in western countries. Current interests are on social issues and Indigenous livelihoods around mine sites in New Caledonia (2011-present). Also advocacy and research on urban cycling policy (or lack of), and bicycle workshops as part of community economies, in London, across France, Brussels and Melbourne since 1995.
I studied geography in the UK and USA, and have spent 30 years teaching in the UK, USA, Denmark, Belgium and Australia.
I'm interested in supporting sustainable rural livelihoods, initially in the West African Sahel (Burkina Faso, 1992-3, 2001 and Niger, 1995-7); then East Timor (2005-9).

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Visiting professor, LEC, Lancaster University
  • 2004–present
    lecturer to professor, University of Melbourne
  • 2023–present
    Academic Convener, MCF Academy, University of Melbourne
  • 2017–2019
    Professor of Political Ecology, LEC, Lancaster University
  • 2008–2012
    Director, Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne
  • 1993–2004
    lecturer or assistant professor, Brunel Univ., then Univ of Colorado, then the LSE, then Univ. of Arizona USA

Education

  • 1997 
    Clark University, USA, PhD, geography/environmental management
  • 1990 
    Clark University, USA, MA, Geography
  • 1985 
    University of Reading, UK, BA Hons, Geography

Publications

  • 2019
    see http://simonbatterbury.net/pubs,
  • 2019
    editor, Journal of Political Ecology , http://jpe.library.arizona.edu

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    Community Bike Workshops
    Role:
    Research fellowship
    Funding Source:
    British Academy

Research Areas

  • Studies In Human Society (16)
  • Human Geography (1604)
  • Environmental Science And Management (0502)
  • Environmental Politics (160605)

Honours

British Academy Visiting Fellow 2024. James Martin Fellow, University of Oxford, 2007-8. Visiting Professor, Roskilde University 2002. Visiting Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban studies, VUB, 2015. Excellence Award in Graduate Supervision, UniMelb, 2019.