- Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
I am a political ecologist and my research focuses on the international politics of conservation. I am particularly interested in strategies for tackling the illegal wildlife trade. My most recent book, Security and Conservation is published by Yale University Press (2022). I have held posts at the Universities of Lancaster, Manchester, SOAS and I joined the University of Sheffield in 2016.
During 2021-2023 I am Principal Investigator on an ESRC grant (£859,000) for Beastly Business: Examining the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Europe, more information https://beastlybusiness.org/ and on twitter @beastlyproject. The project analyses the inter relationships between legal and illegal wildlife trades in European brown bears, European eels and songbirds.
From 2016 to 2020 I held a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award (EUR 1.8 million) for the BIOSEC Project: Biodiversity and Security: understanding environmental crime, illegal wildlife trade and threat finance, more information https://biosec.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/ The project examined how and why the conservation and the security sectors became more integrated in tackling the illegal wildlife trade.
Experience
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2001–presentProfessor, University of Sheffield
Education
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1996University of Lancaster, PhD
Publications
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2022Security and Conservation: the politics of the illegal wildlife trade, Yale University Press
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2011Capitalism and Conservation, Wiley
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2010Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong, Yale University Press
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2008Nature Unbound, Earthscan
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2003The Ethics of Tourism Development, Routledge
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2002A Trip Too Far, Earthscan
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2000Killing for Conservation, James Currey/Indiana University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2020Beastly Business
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Economic and Social Research Council
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2019Convivial Conservation
- Role:
- Co-I
- Funding Source:
- Belmont Forum
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2016BIOSEC: Biodiversity and Security
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- ERC
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2015Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
- Role:
- Co-PI
- Funding Source:
- Leverhulme Trust
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2007Neoliberalising Nature
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- ESRC
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2004Global Environmental Governance and Local Resistances
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- ESRC
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2000The Geopolitics of Bioergions
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- ESRC
Professional Memberships
- POLLEN
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- Location: Sheffield, UK
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