David Scrivener

Biography

Brief career history

1979-86     Lecturer in International Relations, Aberdeen University

1986-87     Principal  Research Officer, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

1988-89     Research Fellow, Centre for Defence Studies, Aberdeen University (ESRC Research Award)

1989-2007  Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University

2007-         Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University

Main Academic Administration Roles at Keele

Chair, Spire Curriculum Review Group (2011-2018)

Programme Director and Assessments Officer, International Relations (2003-2018)

Director of Learning and Teaching, SPIRE (2006-January 2012)

Chair, SPIRE Learning and Teaching Committee (2006-January 2012)

Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee (2006-January 2012)

Member of the University Internal Quality Audit Panel (2006-2018)

Member of the University Senate (2006-09)

SPIRE Academic Conduct Officer (2006-07)

ERASMUS/Exchange Institutional Coordinator (2003-2018)

SPIRE Development Officer (1992-2002)

SPIRE QA Subject Review Coordinator for the October 2001 HEFCE Quality Assurance Subject Review of Politics and International Relations (1998-2001)

Chair or Member of the International Relations Syllabus and Planning Committees (1992-97)

Timetabling Officer for International Relations (1989-2004)

Undergraduate Admissions Officer (1989-92)

Liaison Officer with the Departments of Law, Politics, History and Economics (1989-93)

I retired in September 2018.

Research and scholarship

Having entered academia as a Sovietologist and international security specialist, my  research interests gradually evolved into a new focus on the international politics of the Arctic region and international environmental cooperation to accompany a continuing interest in the area of arms control and weapons proliferation. These research interests and related scholarship are reflected in the specialised modules that I teach at Keele in addition to leading the delivery of several of the mainline lecture courses that feature in the International Relations programme at Keele.  

Teaching

• PIR-10041 : Introduction to International Relations (Module Coordinator, lecturer and tutor)
• PIR-10042 : Making and Shaping Foreign Policy (Module Coordinator, lecturer and tutor)
• TBA         : Environmental Politics and Policy (Module Coordinator, lecturer and tutor)
• PIR-10058 : Introduction to Global Political Economy  (Module Coordinator)
• PIR-20064 : International Relations of the Environment (Module Coordinator, lecturer and tutor)
• PIR-30111 : Arms Control and Disarmament (Module Coordinator and seminar leader)
• PIR-30108 : Proliferation (Module Coordinator and seminar leader)
• PIR-30112 : The Northern Dimension: Security, Resources and Environment in the Arctic (Module Coordinator and seminar leader)
• PIR-30107 :  Sport in Global Politics: a Neglected Dimension (Module Coordinator)    
• PIR-40111 : Environmental Diplomacy (MA) (Module Coordinator and seminar leader)
• PIR-40106 : Dimensions of Environmental Politics (MA) (member of seminar leader team)
• PIR-40082 : Global Environmental Change and its Political Consequences (MA) (member of seminar leader team)

PhD Supervision