Simon Batterbury (University of Melbourne)

Personal website – nothing to do with the University

    simonpjb  "at" unimelb.edu.au

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·        Short cv .pdf

·        Publications of all sorts

·        Research students past and present

·        Blog

·        To-do list 2011 (eeks)

 

·         Press on Batterbury family garden, Bath, UK

·         OEP blog site

·         Bike Helmets – Australia and New Zealand doesn't need them to be compulsory for adults. Helmets data

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Greetings!

 I work on the political ecology of natural resources, and international development issues, as a university scholar and occasional consultant and activist. I'm originally from the UK but have spent many years in other places, notably the USA, Australia, West Africa and continental Europe.

This site is oriented towards research and teaching interests, and also contains (under Publications) online versions almost everything I have written since 1993.

I’m Associate Professor in an interdisciplinary university department, University of Melbourne, Australia and also direct the University’s  Office for Environmental Programs, which offers interdisciplinary taught post-graduate degrees in the environmental field, and has c.320 students and a staff of 7. It has its own blog site for events and ruminations and has been widely recognized for its innovative teaching model.

Melbourne is a strong research and teaching university dating back to the 1850s. Initially modelled on Oxford and part of the Australian "Ivy league" (Group of 8), it is probably 1st or 2nd ranked in Australia and, the Times Higher says, in the top 40 or so worldwide (higher for social sciences).

Despite environmental challenges,  Melbourne is also one of the world's 'most liveable cities' according Melbourne from Albert Park. Simon Batterbury 2006.to assessments - better planned, interesting/alternative, and with a better climate than most of its northern-hemisphere equivalents.  Soon to approach 4m people, it has a strong environmental movement, many NGOs, a tram network, a bayside coast, opulent Victorian architecture, a multicultural community, large homegrown music scene, and the best coffee in the country. 

The Department I am in has changed its name due to some university restructuring.

Since 2008, we have been the Department of Resource Management and Geography, in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, which is gradually becoming an environmental hub at Melbourne.

Until 2006 we had the best name – SAGES - the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies. This attracted me to Australia in 2004 from the Univ. of Arizona, since I teach across development studies, geography and environment (SAGES survives on Facebook!).

Potential PhD students should apply via the Melbourne School of Land and Environment (links direct to international or domestic apps). I have a  group working on environment & development, international development, political ecology topics and engaged research (click the link to see what they do). Masters students for taught programs should apply to the Masters of Environment, OEP, where 'streams' can be chosen including 'development' and 'conservation'. I also teach many Master of Development Studies students. I occasionally have honours students in geography (Honours is an undergrad 4th year with a 15,000 wd thesis in Australia)           

In 2007-8 I was a James Martin Fellow at ECI, University of Oxford, UK in a unit focussing on climate change policy. I used to teach at the University of Arizona (USA), the London School of Economics (UK, where I co-managed the MSc in Environment and Development), Brunel University (UK) and briefly at the University of Colorado (USA) and Roskilde University (Denmark).  Rather a lot of universities! I’ve also lived in francophone West Africa, where I still conduct research on environment and development issues, and I have a couple of similar research projects closer to home in the Pacific and East Timor.  In my neighbourhood, Northcote, I sit on environmental committees.     

Dr Simon Batterbury est géographe et spécialiste de la gestion des ressources naturelles et des politiques environnementales en Afrique (Burkina, Niger) et dans la zone Asie-Pacifique (Timor-Leste, Nouvelle-Calédonie). Né en Angleterre, docteur de la Clark University (Etats-Unis, 1997) sur le thème du développement rural au Burkina Faso, il est aujourd’hui Associate Professor à l’Université de Melbourne depuis 2004 (et a Université de Oxford en 2007/8). Entre-temps, il a travaillé à l’Université de Brunel à Londres, à la London School of Economics, et à l’Université d’Arizona (Etats-Unis). Auteur d’une cinquantaine d’articles et de 6 «collections», il a reçu plusieurs « research grants ».

 

1 Aug  2011