Environmental Politics Summer School Convenors

 

 

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Keele University. She is co-director of an interdisciplinary BSc programme on environment and sustainability and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on environmental politics. The focus of her research is the relationship between feminist and environmental politics, particularly around issues of activism, citizenship and unpaid labour.  She is author of Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care (UBC Press, 2006). Recent publications include articles on the post-political and gendered discourses of climate change (Sociological Review 2009; Hypatia  2013) and on the trajectories of green and feminist political thought (Contemporary Political Theory 2009). She has recently finished co-editing Environmental Movements around the World with Timothy Doyle, is Joint Editor of Environmental Politics journal and a past Editorial Advisor to Women and Environments International.

She convened the Keele ECPR Summer School in 2008 and 2010.

                                                                                      

Dr Brian Doherty (Co-convenor, ECPR Environmental Politics Standing Group)

 

 

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Giulia Mininni  is the Summer School's website manager and assistant organizer.  She is a Ph.D Candidate in the School of Politics, International Relations & Philosophy (SPIRE) at Keele University. The focus of her research is on small scale renewable sources of energy for off grid communities in the global south supported by south-to-south cooperation schemes. In particular she is also looking at women’s engagement in the process. Giulia has also an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at University College London and has been working on environmental justice and behavioural change programmes for Non-Governmental Organisations in the UK and internationally. She is currently working as Sustainability Project Officer at Keele University organising activities and events with staff and students at Keele. She is very interested in food growing and sustainable living. Please contact her to know what’s going on at Keele.

 

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Carys Hughes is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Keele University, and is assisting with the organisation of the Summer School. She is based between the Schools of Law and Politics, International Relations & Philosophy (SPIRE), where she teaches undergraduate modules in Politics and Philosophy. Her PhD explores the use of ‘a-legal space’ by civil society as a tool to affect social and political change. A-legal space refers to quasi-legal initiatives of social movements, NGOs and other civil society actors such as Peoples’ Tribunals, referenda, and commissions. Her research has focused on Latin American case studies including a popular referendum in Venezuela and a Peoples’ Tribunal on Climate Justice in Bolivia. Carys also holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Leeds and an MA in Communication for Development from Malmo University, Sweden.