Simon Batterbury

Professor, Environmental Studies & Convenor, Melbourne Climate Futures Academy, The University of Melbourne

Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia and formerly Chair of Political Ecology, LEC, Lancaster University, UK [2017-19].
Environment and development issues, environmental policy, bicycle policy in western countries. Current interests are on social issues and Indigenous livelihoods around mine sites in New Caledonia (2011-present). Also advocacy and research on urban cycling policy (or lack of), and bicycle workshops as part of community economies, in London, across France, Brussels and Melbourne since 1995.
I studied geography in the UK and USA, and have spent 30 years teaching in the UK, USA, Denmark, Belgium and Australia.
I'm interested in supporting sustainable rural livelihoods, initially in the West African Sahel (Burkina Faso, 1992-3, 2001 and Niger, 1995-7); then East Timor (2005-9).

Experience

2019–present

Visiting professor, LEC, Lancaster University
2004–present

lecturer to professor, University of Melbourne
2023–present

Academic Convener, MCF Academy, University of Melbourne
2017–2019

Professor of Political Ecology, LEC, Lancaster University
2008–2012

Director, Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne
1993–2004

lecturer or assistant professor, Brunel Univ., then Univ of Colorado, then the LSE, then Univ. of Arizona USA

Education

1997

Clark University, USA, PhD, geography/environmental management
1990

Clark University, USA, MA, Geography
1985

University of Reading, UK, BA Hons, Geography

Publications

2019

see http://simonbatterbury.net/pubs,
2019

editor, Journal of Political Ecology , http://jpe.library.arizona.edu

Grants and Contracts

2024

Community Bike Workshops

Role:

Research fellowship

Funding Source:

British Academy

Research Areas

Studies In Human Society (16)
Human Geography (1604)
Environmental Science And Management (0502)
Environmental Politics (160605)

Honours

British Academy Visiting Fellow 2024. James Martin Fellow, University of Oxford, 2007-8. Visiting Professor, Roskilde University 2002. Visiting Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban studies, VUB, 2015. Excellence Award in Graduate Supervision, UniMelb, 2019.

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