Maurice Beseng

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Maurice Beseng is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Global Sustainable Development. Formerly Assistant Professor at the International Development Department - University of Birmingham. Prior to these, he was Research Associate at the University of Sheffield's Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African Politics and Economics of Wildlife Trade at the University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.

Maurice has held research fellowships from the Association of Commonwealth University (ACU) and AHRC. In 2019, he used the ACU Blue Charter Fellowships to work on the topic of Plastic Pollution in Fisheries. Since 2019, he has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations at Coventry University working on Maritime Security and Ocean Justice issues.

Maurice's research interest include natural resources and justice, marine environmental crimes, political ecology of the oceans.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
  • 2023–2025
    Assistant Professor, IDD, University of Birmingham
  • 2021–2022
    Research associate , Institute for Global Sustainable Development. The University of Sheffield
  • 2020–2021
    Postdoctoral research associate, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
  • 2018–2019
    Research assistant, CTPSR, Coventry University

Education

  • 2019 
    Coventry University, Ph.D Security & Development
  • 2008 
    Coventry University, MA Conflict Studies
  • 2007 
    Universities of: Cadiz, Algarve & Plymouth, , Erasmus Mundus Joint European MSc in Water & Coastal Management
  • 2004 
    University of Buea, Cameroon, Postgraduate Diploma, Gender & Development Studies

Publications

  • 2026
    Marine Policy, Beseng, M., 2026. Managing abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear in Cameroon's marine small-scale fisheries: Perspective of local ecological knowledge. Marine Policy, 185, p.107000.
  • 2023
    Africa Spectrum,, Beseng, M., Crawford, G. and Annan, N., 2023. From “Anglophone Problem” to “Anglophone Conflict” in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace. 58(1), pp.89-105.
  • 2021
    African Security, The Nature and Scope of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Fisheries Crime in Cameroon: Implications for Maritime Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/19392206.2021.1982241
  • 2021
    Conflict, Security & Development, Nancy Annan, Maurice Beseng, Gordon Crawford & James Kiven (2021) Civil society, peacebuilding from below and shrinking civic space: the case of Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone’ conflict, Conflict, Security & Development, 21:6, 697-725, DOI:10.1080/14678802.2021.1997454
  • 2021
    Conflict, Security & Development, Maritime security and the securitisation of fisheries in the Gulf of Guinea: experiences from Cameroon, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2021.1985848
  • 2019
    Marine Policy, Cameroon's Choppy Waters: The Anatomy of Fisheries Crime in Marine Fisheries Sector- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103669

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