Heather Alberro – The Conversation

Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester

I currently a Lecturer in sustainability, specialising in radical and decolonial environmental politics, post-anthropocentric environmental ethics and green utopian studies. I am especially interested in human attitudes towards nature and other species, and factors motivating pro-environmental values and behaviours.

Experience

2024–present

Lecturer, University of Manchester
2020–2024

Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
2019–2023

Associate Lecturer, University of Leicester
2017–2020

Associate Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
2018–2019

Associate Lecturer , Sheffield Hallam University

Education

2020

Nottingham Trent University , PhD Radical Environmental Politics/Green Utopianism
2015

University of Kent, MSc Environmental Social Science
2014

University of Miami, BA Sociology; minors in English literature and philosophy

Publications

2020

'Interspecies', Chapter in forthcoming edited book collection, 'The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene'
2019

Methodological Considerations for the Special-Risk Researcher: A Research Note , Journal of Methodological Innovations
2018

'A Modern Ecotopia', Essay in Ruzbeh Babaee's edited book collection, 'My Utopia'

Grants and Contracts

2016

Vice Chancellor's Scholarship

Role:

PhD Funding

Funding Source:

Nottingham Trent University

Professional Memberships

Political Studies Association
Utopian Studies Society
International Sociology Honour Society
Co-convenor for Environmental Politics subgroup of the Political Studies Association

Honours

Recipient of Alpha Kappa Delta's '2014 Outstanding Graduating Student Award' on behalf of the University of Miami's Department of Sociology