Simon Batterbury (University of Melbourne)

Personal website – nothing to do with the University

2004 Melbourne from Albert Park

simonpjb  "at" unimelb.edu.au

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Greetings!

 I work on the political ecology of resources, and international development issues, as a university scholar and occasional consultant and activist.

I’m a senior lecturer in an interdisciplinary university department, University of Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is a strong research and teaching university dating back to the 1850s. Initially modelled on Oxford, it is 2^nd ranked in Australia and, the Times Higher says, in the top 30 worldwide. Melbourne is, of course, one of the world's 'most liveable cites' according to the Economist's Intelligence Unit.

This site is presently oriented towards research and teaching interests, and also contains (under Publications below) online versions almost everything I have written since 1993. In an effort to hold myself accountable, I include an undergrad essay I wrote in 1984 in which I argued for the policy-relevance of geographical scholarship.

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

From 1 Jan 2008, we are the Department of Resource Management and Geography, in the Faculty of Land and Food, which is gradually becoming an environmental hub at Melbourne and about to be renamed The Melbourne Graduate School of Land and Environment.

In 2007 we were the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry but it got broken up.

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!).

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Potential PhD students should apply via the Faculty of Land and Food. I have a small group working on environment & development and engaged research. Masters students should apply to the Masters of Environment, OEP, where 'streams' can be chosen including 'development'. I also teach many Master of Development Studies students.

I used to teach at the University of Arizona (USA), the London School of Economics (UK, where I co-directed the MA in Environment and Development), Brunel University (UK) and briefly at the University of Colorado (USA) and Roskilde University (Denmark). Just returned from sabbatical leave in the UK, as a James Martin Fellow at ECI, University of Oxford, UK in a unit focussing of climate change. 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, the latter getting underway in 2008.

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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 Senior Lecturer 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 quarantaine d’articles et de 6 «collections», il a reçu plusieurs « research grants ».

Homepage, research themes, teaching, links etc.

Publications of all sorts

Press on Batterbury family garden, Bath, UK

This is where you are

TEACHING

Oxford MSc class on political ecology 2007.

SIA class 121-529 (now passworded on LMS system)

Africa class 121-494 2007 (now passworded on LMS system) (2005 website)

Political Ecology seminar 121-525 2007  (now passworded on LMS system) (2003 syllabus)

121- 503 Planning a Qualitative Research Project (Feb 2007) passworded