Dr Brian Doherty Senior Lecturer Room: CBB 2.028 Tel: +44 (0)1782 734176 Fax: +44 (0)1782 733592 Email:b.j.a.doherty@keele.ac.uk

Courses Taught :

• Political Sociology (Level 1)
• The Politics of Radical Protest (Level 3)
• The State and Modern Society (Level 3)
• Dimensions of Environmental Politics (MA)
• Green Parties and Movements (MA)
• Human Rights and Global Politics (MA)
  

Background:

He did his first degree in politics at Durham University, an M.A. in Political Thought at Kent, and a Ph.D. on the Ideology of Green Parties at Manchester University.

• Green/Environmental Movements
• Protest and Social Movements
• Political Violence
• Radical Ideologies

He is a member of the Centre for Research on Environmental Action and Thought  (CREATe), and the Centre for Politics and International Studies, which are part of the Keele Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice.

Funded Research projects:

• Direct action activist networks in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales (ESRC Democracy and Participation Programme, 2000-2002)
• Understanding Special Interest Groups (UK Environment Agency, 2002-4)
• Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity (ESRC Non-Governmental Public Action Programme, 2006-2008).

Current PhD students

Phil Burton-Cartledge: Socialist Activists in Difficult Times.
Jon Cope: Conflicting discourses in the debates over globalization
Darrell Whitman: Nodes of Global Ecological Politics: Science, Knowledge, Power and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Publications

Working papers

He is an editor of the journal: Social Movement Studies

Details of the ECPR PhD Summer School on Environmental Politics and Policy