Daniel Brockington
Education and Qualifications
1993-98 PhD: ‘Land Loss and Livelihoods. The impacts of eviction on pastoralists moved from
the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Department of Anthropology, UCL.
1994
Certificate in Swahili, Class I, School of Oriental and African Studies.
1992-93
Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Oxford.
1989-92
BA (Hons) Geography, Class I, University of Oxford.
Current Employment
2005+
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.
University Lecturer 2005; Senior Lecturer 2007; Reader 2010; Professor of
Conservation and Development 2012.
Previous Employment
2002-5
Departmental Lecturer at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of
Oxford. Lecturer at St Hugh’s College.
2001-2
Research Associate at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
Research Fellow, Director of Studies in Geography and Dean at New Hall.
1998-01
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography,
University of Cambridge. Research Fellow at New Hall.
1994-97
Research Assistant at the Department of Anthropology, UCL.
University Visits and Visiting Fellowships
2013
University of Dodoma, Tanzania (March 2013)
2012
University of Roskilde, Denmark (May 2012).
2008
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India (Jan ’08April ’08).
2007
Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
(January ’07 – May ’07).
2006
Resource Management in Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia. (October ’06 – January ’07).
2005
Environmental Science Programme, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
(January – April ’05).
Membership of Academic and Professional Bodies
Royal African Society
Development Studies Association
World Commission on Protected Areas; Commission on Social, Economic and
Environmental Policy (both commissions of the World Conservation Union, IUCN)
Websites
http://danbrockington.com
http://studyinggreen.wordpress.com
www.justconservation.org
Research
1. Publications
[Web of Science citation figures and Google Scholar citation figures, updated July 2014, are
respectively listed after each publication in square brackets. My Web of Science H-index is 20;
Google Scholar is 33.]
Books
Brockington, D. 2014. Celebrity Advocacy and International Development. Routledge, London. [-;
3]
Brockington, D and Duffy, R. (eds) 2011. Conservation and Capitalism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
[5; 13]
Brockington, D. 2009. Celebrity and the Environment. Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation.
ZED books, London. [39; 92]
Brockington, D., Duffy, R. and Igoe, J. 2008. Nature Unbound. Conservation, Capitalism and the
Future of Protected Areas. Earthscan, London. [126; 274]
Brockington, D. 2002. Fortress Conservation. The preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve. James
Currey, African Issues series, Oxford and Indiana University Press, Indiana. [210; 502]
Special Issues in Journals
Brockington, D. Forthcoming. ‘Celebrity Advocacy: International and Comparative Perspectives.’
Special Issue in Celebrity Studies.
International Journal of Cultural Studies 2014. Special Section on Celebrity Advocacy
Duffy, R. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘Conservation and Capitalism.’ Special Issue with Antipode.
Igoe, J and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Engaging Neoliberal Conservation.’ Special Issue with
Conservation and Society.
Papers: In Preparation and Under Review
Brockington D. Forthcoming. Towards an International Understanding of the Power of Celebrity
Persuasions. A Review and a Research Agenda. Accepted by Celebrity Studies.
Brockington, D., Scholfield, K. and Ladle, R. ‘Anthropology of Conservation NGOs. Learning
from a sectoral approach to the study of NGOs’ Under review with Conservation and Society
Duffy, R., St John, F., Büscher, B. and Brockington, D. The militarization of anti-poaching:
Undermining long term goals? Under Review with Environmental Conservation.
Brockington, D., Loiske, V-M., Noe, C. and Mnzava, M. Economic Growth and Rural Assets and
Prosperity. Exploring the implications of a twenty year record from Tanzania. Paper complete
and in submission to Journal of Peasant Studies.
Duffy, R., St John, F., Büscher, B. and Brockington, D. Poverty and Poaching: Towards a New
Understanding. Draft under completion for Third World Quarterly
Brockington, D. and Banks, N. Understanding the Growth of MicroFinance in Africa, the case of
BRAC in Tanzania. Draft in completion for World Development
Brockington, D. and Banks, N. Institutional Performance and Microfinance Success. Draft in
completion for Journal of Development Studies.
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Papers: Academic Journals, Published
Castree, N., Adams, W.M., Barry, J., Brockington, D., Büscher, B., Corbera, E., Demeritt, D.,
Duffy, R., Neves, K., Newell, P., Pellizzoni, L., Rigby, K., Robbins, P., Robin, L., Rose,
D.B., Ross, A., Schlosberg, D., Sörlin, S., West, P., Whitehead, M. and Wynne, B. 2014.
‘Changing the Intellectual Climate.’ Nature Climate Change 4 (9): 763-8.
Brockington, D. and Henson, S. 2014. ‘Signifying the Public: Celebrity Advocacy and postdemocratic politics’ International Journal of Cultural Studies. Advanced Online Publication
Brockington, D. 2014. ‘The Production and Performance of Authenticity: the work of celebrity in
international development.’ Third World Quarterly 35(1): 88-108. [-; 3]
Brockington, D. 2012. ‘Celebrities Interventions’. Contribution to Forum / Debate ‘Brand Africa:
Multiple Transitions in Global Capitalism’ Ponte, S. and Richey, L. Review of African
Political Economy 39 (131): 135-50. [1;-]
Homewood, K., Chenevix Trench, P. and Brockington, D. 2012. ‘Pastoral livelihoods and
wildlife revenues’ Pastoralism Journal 2: 19 [1; 3]
Holmes, G., Scholfield, K. and Brockington, D. 2012. ‘A Comparison of Global Conservation
Prioritization Models with Spatial Spending Patterns of Conservation Nongovernmental
Organizations’ Conservation Biology 26 (4): 602-609. [2; 4]
Buscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2012. Towards a consolidated
critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 23 (2): 4-30.
[25; 66]
Brockington, D. 2012. ‘A Radically Conservative Vision? The Challenge of UNEP’s Towards a
Green Economy.’ Development and Change 43 (1): 409-422. [2; 4]
Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Ecosystem Services and Fictitious Commodities.’ Environmental
Conservation 38 (4): 367-9. [5; 14]
Oldekop, J.A., Bebbington, A.J., Brockington, D., and Preziosi, R.F. 2010. ‘Understanding the
Lessons and Limitations of Conservation and Development.’ Conservation Biology 24 (2):
461-9. [6; 15]
Homewood, K., Brockington, D. and Sullivan, S. 2010. ‘Alternative view of Serengeti Road.’
Nature 467: 788-9. [1; 6]
Dressler, W., Büscher, B., Schoon, M., Brockington, D., Hayes, T., Kull, C., McCarthy, J., and
Streshta, K. 2010. From Hope to Crisis and Back Again? A Critical History of the Global
CBNRM Narrative. Environmental Conservation 37 (1): 5-15. [35; 76]
Brockington, D and Duffy, R. 2010. ‘Conservation and Capitalism: an Introduction.’ Antipode 42
(3): 469-484. [48; 112]
Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘Conservation NGOs and the Conservationist Mode of
Production in sub-Saharan Africa.’ Antipode 42 (3): 551-575. [14; 35]
Igoe, J., Neves-Graca, K. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘A Spectacular Eco-Tour Around the
Historic Bloc: Theorizing the Convergence of Biodiversity Conservation and Capitalist
Expansion. Antipode 42 (3): 486-512. [49; 95]
Lele, S., Wilshusen, P., Brockington, D., Seidler, R. and Bawa, K. 2010. ‘Beyond exclusion:
alternative approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing tropics.’ Current
Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2: 1-7. [19; 59]
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Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘Expenditure by Conservation Non-Governmental
Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa.’ Conservation Letters 3(2): 106-113. [13; 21]
Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2010. ‘The work of conservation organisations in sub-Saharan
Africa.’ Journal of Modern African Studies 48 (1): 1-33. [10; 27]
Brockington, D., Sachedina, H., and Scholfield, K. 2009. ‘Preserving the New Tanzania:
Conservation as a Driving Force in Land Use Change.’ International Journal of African
Historical Studies 41 (3): 1-24. [5; 9]
Igoe, J., Brockington, D., Randall, S. and Scholfield, K. 2008. ‘Lessons to be learned about
migration around protected areas.’ Science (E-Letter, 11 December 2008), www.sciencemag.
org/cgi/eletters/321/5885/123?ck=nck. [1; 6]
Brockington, D. 2008. ‘Corruption, Taxation, Democracy and Natural Resource Management in
Tanzania.’ Journal of Development Studies 44 (1): 103-126. [10; 39]
Brockington D. 2008. ‘Powerful Environmentalisms. Conservation, Celebrity and Capitalism.’
Media, Culture and Society 30 (4): 551-568. [20; 49]
Upton, C., Ladle, R., Hulme, D., Jiang, T., Brockington, D. and Adams, W.M. 2008. ‘Protected
Areas, Poverty & Biodiversity: A National Scale Analysis.’ Oryx 42 (1): 19-25. [11; 35]
Brockington D. 2008. Celebrity Conservation. Interpreting the Irwins. Media International
Australia. 127: 96-108. [2; 4]
Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Neoliberal conservation. A brief introduction.’ Conservation
and Society 5 (4): 432-449 [85; 208]
Schmidt-Soltau, K., and Brockington, D. 2007 ‘Protected Areas and Resettlement: what scope for
voluntary relocation?’ World Development 35 (12): 2182-2202. [16; 58]
Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Devolution, Community Conservation and Forests. On local government
performance and Village Forest Reserves in Tanzania.’ Society and Natural Resources 20: 83548. [31; 79]
Brockington, D. and Igoe, J. 2006. ‘Eviction for Conservation. A Global Overview.’ Conservation
and Society 4 (3): 424-70. Reprinted: (in Portugeuse), in A ecologia politica das grandes
ONGs transnacionais conservacionistas. Organizador Antonio Carlos Diegues. NUPAUBUSB, Sao Paulo, and in Development Induced Displacement: Contexts and Consequences,
IFCAI, Calcutta. [73; 242]
West, P., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected
Areas.’ Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 251-77 [184; 465]
West, P. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘An Anthropological Perspective on Some Unexpected
Consequences of Protected Areas.’ Conservation Biology 20 (3): 609-616. [56; 151]
Brockington, D. 2006. ‘The politics and ethnography of environmentalisms in Tanzania.’ African
Affairs 105 (418): 97-116. [18; 43]
Brockington, D., Igoe, J. and K. Schmidt-Soltau, K. 2006. Conservation, Human Rights, and
Poverty Reduction. Conservation Biology 20 (1): 250-2. [82; 238]
Adams, W.M., Aveling, R., Brockington, D., Dickson, B., Elliott, J., Hutton, J., Roe, R., Vira, B.,
and Wolmer, W. 2004. ‘Conservation and Poverty: A Framework for Analysis’ Science 306:
1146-9. [262; 683]
Brockington, D. and Schmidt-Soltau, K. 2004. ‘The social and environmental impacts of wilderness
and development.’ Oryx 38: 1-3. [30; 80]
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Brockington, D. 2004. ‘Community conservation, Inequality and Injustice. Myths of Power in
Protected Area Management.’ Conservation and Society 2 (2): 411-432. [33; 99]
Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2003 ‘Managing tragedies. Understanding
Conflict over Common Pool Resources.’ Science 302: 1915-6. Reprinted in pages 149-153 of
D.Kennedy (ed) Science Magazine’s State of the Planet 2006-7. Island Press, Washington. [79;
220]
Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Myths of Sceptical Environmentalism.’ Environmental Science and Policy 6:
543-546. [2; 10]
Gillson, L., Sheridan, M. & Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Representing environments in flux: case studies
from East Africa.’ Area 35: 371-389. [15; 35]
Brockington, D. 2001. ‘Women’s Income and Livelihood Strategies of Dispossessed Pastoralists.’
Human Ecology 29: 307-338. [13; 41]
Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 2001. ‘Degradation debates and data deficiencies. The case of
the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Africa 71: 449-480. [13; 35]
Brockington, D. 2001. ‘Communal Property and Degradation Narratives. Debating the Sukuma
immigration into Rukwa Region, Tanzania.’ Cahiers d’Afrique.20: 1-22. [8; 21]
Brockington, D. 2000. ‘Pastoralism on the margins. The decline and dispersal of herding on the Umba
Nyika from 1800 to 1919.’ Azania 35: 1-19. [1; 2]
Homewood, K. and Brockington, D. 1999. ‘Biodiversity, conservation and development in
Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Global Ecology and Biogeography 8: 301-313. [23; 49]
Brockington, D. 1999. ‘Conservation, Displacement and Livelihoods. The consequences of the
eviction for pastoralists moved from the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ Nomadic
Peoples 3: 74-96. [11; 27]
Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 1999. Pastoral Land Tenure and Community Conservation: a case
study from North-East Tanzania. Pastoral Land Tenure Series No 11. IIED, London. [30; 68]
Book Chapters
Brockington, D. 2014. ‘Celebrity Spectacle, Post-Democratic Politics and Nature Incorporated.’
Chapter in Nature Inc: New Frontiers of Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age.
University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Brockington, D. 2013. ‘Foreword.’ Invited contribution in Huggan, G. Nature’s Saviours
Earthscan-Wiley.
Brockington, D. 2013. ‘Celebrity, Environmentalism and Conservation.’ In E.A. Lester and B.
Hutchins, (eds) Environmental Conflict and the Media, Peter Lang, New York.
Holmes, G., Ferguson, B. and Brockington, D. 2012. ‘Protected areas – what people say about
well being.’ Chapter in D. Roe, J.Elliot and Matt Walpole (ed) Linking Biodiversity
Conservation and Poverty Reduction. Wiley Earthscan, Oxford
Homewood, K., Chenevix Trench, P. and Brockington, D. 2012. ‘Pastoralism and conservation –
who benefits?’ Chapter in D. Roe, J.Elliot and Matt Walpole (ed) Linking Biodiversity
Conservation and Poverty Reduction. Wiley Earthscan, Oxford
Brockington, D. 2011 Untitled Section in ‘Views from the Industry’ in Wildlife Film-making.
Looking to the Future. Edited by Piers Warren. Wildeye, UK.
Brockington, D. and Scholfield, K. 2009. Celebrity Conservation. In Celebrity Colonialism: Fame,
Representation, and Power in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures edited by Robert Clarke.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. [4; 7]
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Brockington, D. 2006. Entries on ‘Maasai’, ‘Samburu’, ‘Agriculture – Intensive’, ‘Agriculture – Slash
and Burn’, ‘Ik’ and ‘Nomads’, in H. James Birx (ed) Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Sage,
London.
Brockington, D. 2005. ‘The costs of conservation: monitoring economic change as a consequence of
conservation policy at Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ In K. Homewood (ed) Rural
resources and local livelihoods in Africa. James Currey, Oxford. [3; 16]
Brockington, D. and Sullivan, S. 2003. ‘Meaning and fieldwork – lessons from qualitative research
methodologies.’ In R. Schevyns (ed) Field work and Development Studies. A Rough Guide.
Sage, London. [6; 303]
Rogers, P.J., Brockington, D., Kiwasila, H. and Homewood, K. 1999. ‘Environmental Awareness
and Conflict Genesis: People versus Parks in Mkomazi Game Reserve.’ In T. Granfelt (ed)
Managing the Globalised Environment. Intermediate Technology Publications, London. [1;
13]
Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 1999. ‘Pastoralism around Mkomazi Game Reserve: the
interaction of Conservation and Development.’ In M. Coe, N. McWilliam, G. Stone and M.
Packer (eds) Mkomazi: the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of a Tanzanian savanna.
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London. [10; 15]
Brockington, D. and Homewood, K. 1996. ‘Wildlife, Pastoralists and Science. Debates concerning
Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania.’ In M. Leach and R. Mearns (eds) The Lie of the Land.
Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. International African Institute,
James Currey, Oxford. [19; 55]
Professional and Popular Papers
Brockington, D. 2011. Celebrity, Charisma and the Environmental Movement. Current
Conservation 5 (4): 20-21.
Brockington, D. 2011. A Brief Guide to (Conservation) NGOs. Current Conservation 5 (1): 30-31.
Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Doing it for charity. How can charities get more from their relationships
with celebrities?’ Chapter in Britain in 2012 (Annual ESRC Publication). [-; 1]
Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Charities need to rethink celebrity’ Third Sector 8/11/11.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1102612/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH
Sachedina, H., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘The Spectacular Growth of the African
Wildlife Foundation and the Paradoxes of Neoliberal Conservation. Current Conservation 3
(3): 24-27. [1; 6]
Igoe, J. Sullivan, S. and Brockington, D. 2010. ‘Problematising Neoliberal Biodiversity
Conservation” Displaced and Disobedient Knowledge.’ Current Conservation 3 (3): 4-7
[2;12]
Brockington, D. 2009. ‘Getting Development into the News. The Role of Celebrity in
Development’ Development@Manchester Issue 3.
Brockington, D. and Igoe, J. 2008. ‘Eviction for Conservation. A Global Overview.’ Current
Conservation 2 (3): 7-8.
Winer, N., Turton, D. and Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Conservation, Protected Areas and
Humanitarian Practice.’ Policy Matters 15: 232-40. http://www.iucn.org/about/union/
commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM16 [-; 8]
Brockington, D. 2007. ‘Community Conservation.’ Current Conservation 1 (1): 7.
Borrini-Feyerabend, G. and Brockington, D. (with Diaw, C., Farvar, T., Rahmanian, M.,
Rahimzadeh, A., Shamimi, L., Roe, D., Scherl, L. and Williams, A.A.) 2006. ‘Poverty and
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wealth, security and respect, policies and rights – seeking the conditions for synergy between
livelihoods and conservation.’ Policy Matters 14: 5-8.
Bhomia, R.K. and Brockington, D. 2006. ‘Conservation: pride or prejudice? An analysis of the
Protected Areas of India.’ Policy Matters 14: 142-154.
http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM1
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Sullivan, S. and Brockington, D. 2004 Qualitative methods in globalisation studies: or, saying
something about the world without counting or inventing it, CSGR Working Paper no. 139/04
Brockington, D. 2003. ‘Injustice and conservation – Is “local support” necessary for sustainable
protected areas?’ Policy Matters 12: 22-30. [12; 48]
http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ceesp/ceesp_publications/pm/index.cfm#PM16
Brockington, D. 2000. ‘Some consequences of the pastoral migration to Southern Tanzania. A research
report from Rukwa region.’ Tanzanian Society of Animal Production.
Kiwasila, H. and Brockington, D. 1996. ‘Combining Conservation with Community development
around Mkomazi Game Reserve.’ Miombo Technical Supplement
Reports
Brockington, D. and Banks, N. 2014. Exploring the Success of BRAC Tanzania’s Microfinance
Programme. Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper 202.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2456598
Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Trends in reporting on celebrity, charities and development and
humanitarian NGOs in UK newspapers.’ Discussion document released on website:
http://celebrityanddevelopment.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/unexpected-findings-fromnewspaper-analyses/
Brockington, D. 2011. ‘Getting it. Working with celebrity involvement in good causes overseas.’
Discussion document released on website:
http://celebrityanddevelopment.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/getting-it-first-paper-available-forcomment-and-consultation/
Scholfield, K. and Brockington, D. 2008. Non-Governmental Organisations and African Wildlife
Conservation: A Preliminary Analysis. The University of Manchester. Also printed as a paper
for the Brooks World Poverty Institute http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research
/africanwildlife/.
Brockington, D., Millea, N., Mortimore, M., Pinfold, J. and Popham, M. 2005. The
Commonwealth and African Aerial Photograph Archive. Report to the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2002. ‘Analytical framework for dialogue
on CPR management.’ Report to the Department for International Development, UK.
Adams, W.A., Brockington, D. Dyson, J. and Vira, B. 2002. ‘Common Choices: Policy Options for
Common Pool Resources’. Report to the Department for International Development, UK.
Homewood, K., Kiwasila, H. and Brockington, D. 1997. ‘Conservation with Development?’ The
case of Mkomazi’. Report to the Department for International Development, UK.
Review Articles
Book reviews for Area, Ecological Anthropology, Journal of African History, Journal of
Development Studies, Journal of International Development, Land Use Planning, Africa,
Conservation and Society and African Affairs.
Other Media
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Duffy, R. & Brockington D. 2013. ‘Tigers, elephants ask: what have the royals ever done for us?’
http://theconversation.com/tigers-elephants-ask-what-have-royals-ever-done-for-us-18725
Brockington, D. 2010. ‘Do celebrities help or hinder environmental causes?
http://www.thescavenger.net/environment/do-celebrities-help-or-hinder-environmentalcauses-93478.html
Brockington, D. 2005 ‘Change in African Environments? Old photographs are revealing new
information about the African environment.’ Space for got bad for bad got for got
http://www.geoconnexion.com/magazine/article.asp?ID=2421
Editorships
2013 to date
Editor, ‘Critical Green Engagements’ Book Series, Arizona University Press.
2010 to date
Editor, Environment and Society, Advances in Research
2009 to date
Associate Editor, Environmental Conservation
2007 to date
Editor, Conservation and Society
Journal Editorial Boards
2014 to date
Celebrity Studies.
2011 to date
Journal of Development Studies
2. Research Grants
2015-8
‘Using longitudinal qualitative data to understand the generation and distribution of
rural prosperity.’ ESRC-DfID, I am the PI, Value £490k.
2015-8
‘Irrigation and small-scale farming in Africa’ ESRC-DfID, I am a co-investigator, Value
£432k.
2014
Funding for the ‘Green Economy in the South’ conference in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Supported by UNEP. I was co-applicant. Value $11k
2014
Funding for a writing workshop in Dodoma, Tanzania to work with junior African
scholars. Supported by the African Studies Association. I was the principal applicant.
Value £7k.
2014
Marie Curie IEF Fellowship to pay for a post-doctoral researcher to work at Manchester
for two years on conservation policy and economic change in Europe. Value £183k.
2012
Visiting Leverhulme Professorship for Prof Jim Igoe to visit Manchester from
Dartmouth. Value £20k. (declined)
2011
Hallsworth Visiting Professorship (with Arun Agrawal). Value £4k.
2010-2
A 24 month ESRC mid-career fellowship called ‘Celebrity and Development.’ Value
£250k. I was the PI.
2010
An MRC, NERC, ESRC, BBSRC start up project exploring the risks of viral zoonoses
emerging in East Africa. I was a co-investigator. Value £50k
2010
An AHRC network to look at the work of celebrity, the media and environmentalisms. I
am a co-investigator. Value £30k.
2006-8
An investigation of the impacts and success of village based forest reserves in
collaboration with the University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen and
University of Sokoine. Value $170,000, requested from the Tanzanian Forest Research
Institute. I was an advisor.
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2005-8
ESRC Research Fellowship for work on the Social Impacts of Protected Areas Oct 2005
– Sept 2008. Value £160,000. I was the PI, the project is administered from Manchester.
Outputs include the publications listed above on this topic, the books with Earthscan and
Zed and the new teaching module on Conservation and Development. This grant was
rated Outstanding, (Very) Good and Good by its evaluators.
2005-7
AHRC funded research project ‘Land degradation in Central Tanzania’. This is an
experimental project comparing recent palynological data, analysed with Pb210, with oral
histories and archival research. Value £30,000. June 2006 – Dec 2007. I am a coinvestigator, the project is administered from the University of Oxford. We await further
analysis of the core samples for the publications.
2004
Oppenheimer Fund award for work in South Africa on adaptive co-management of
protected areas Jan 2005 – April 2005. Value £5,000. I was the PI. The outputs where
the application for the first ESRC Research Fellowship (above) and the paper in Ann.
Rev Anth.
2004
Mellon Foundation support for the development of web-based finding aids for a
collection of 1.5 million aerial photographs taken in 1940s, 50s and 60s, and for the
relocation of these photographs to Oxford University. Value $39,000. July 2004 – June
2005. I was the PI. The key output was a report examining how it could be possible to
search for and order copies of the photographs on line.
2004
Interdisciplinary conference on environmental change: ‘Trees, Rain and Politics in
Africa’ Funded by British Council, BIEA, British Academy and St Antony’s College for
£12,000. Main outputs are 2 collections of papers in refereed journals (not listed
elsewhere in the CV as I am not co-ordinating their publication).
2004
Research Development Fund (Oxford University) support for an interdisciplinary
African Environments Programme supporting research in natural and social science.
Value £30,000. I was the main instigator of the proposal.
2003
‘Land Degradation in East Africa’ seed money awarded by the Environmental Change
Institute of Oxford University. Value £10,000. I was the joint instigator. This resulted in
the AHRC grant.
2001
‘Common Pool Resources in India, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.’ DfID. A response to a
research call by DfID for work on common pool resources in Zimbabwe, India and
Tanzania. Value £100,000. I was a co-investigator. This produced two reports for DfID,
a workshop and a publication in Science.
1999
‘Dynamics of Communal Resource Management.’ British Academy Small Grant. Value
£5,000. This grant supported by British Academy post-doctoral fellowship, I was the PI.
Key outputs include several publications on natural resource management and village
government.
1994
Conservation and Development on East African Rangelands, DfID. Value £150,000. I
helped to develop the proposal and was a research assistant on this project. Outputs
include my PhD, first book, and numerous journal papers.
3. Present and Past PhD Students
Jonas Bruun. ‘The Implications for Development of Climate Finance Governance.’ Leverhulme
funded, began Jan 2013.
Robert Watt. ‘The Moral Economy of Offsets.’ Leverhulme funded, began Sept 2012.
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Judith Krauss. ‘Certified Cocoa, Carbon and Climate Change’ ESRC funded, begun Sept 2012.
Paul James. ‘Smallholder Sugar Farming in South Africa.’ ESRC-DfID funded, begun Sept 2012.
Jessica Hope. ‘Environmentalism and Neoliberalism in Bolivia’ Self-funded, began Sept 2011.
Melanie Stroebel. ‘Ecotourism and Climate Change’. SCI funded, began Sept 2010.
Antonio Allegretti. ‘Money, markets and power. Maasai pastoralists and the cash economy,
Tanzania.’ Self funded, began Sept 2010.
Andreas Scheba. 2014. ‘Commodifying forest carbon: How local power, politics and livelihood
practices shape REDD+ in Lindi Region, Tanzania’ Supported by the Austrian
Federal Ministry of Science and Research and self-funded. (University of Manchester)
Mathilde Maitrot. 2014. ‘The Social Performance of Micofinance Institutions in Rural Bangladesh’.
(University of Manchester)
Ashish Aggarwal. 2014. ‘Who owns the forest and its carbon – a study of REDD+.’ (University of
Manchester)
Carlos Ferreira. 2013. ‘Biodiversity offsets: market emergence, intermediation and the construction
of marketable nature(s).’ (Manchester University)
Katherine Scholfield. 2013. ‘Transnational (Dis)connections: Mountain Gorilla Conservation in
Rwanda and the DRC.’ (Manchester University)
Sumana Datta. 2012. ‘Climate change policies and local forest management in India.’ (Manchester
University)
Lucy Scott. 2010. ‘Giving Assets: An Effective Approach for Reducing Vulnerability and
Building Livelihoods? The Case of the Chars Livelihoods Programme.’ (Manchester
University).
Hilary Gilbert. 2010. ‘Everything has its price’. Conservation, Development and Bedu in St
Katherine Protectorate, South Sinai.’ (Manchester University). Hilary is currently
serving as a post-doctoral researcher on a project sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
George Holmes. 2009. ‘The power of international conservation, and local resistance to it: A case
study from the Dominican Republic.’ (Manchester University). George is currently on
a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, and has a permanent
lectureship at the University of Leeds in the Department of Geography.
Emmanuel Nuesiri. 2009. ‘Community-based conservation, and the politics of decentralised forest
management in Cameroon.’ (Oxford University). Emmanuel is currently serving as
post-doctoral researcher with Jesse Ribot at the University of Illinois
Hassan Sachedina. 2008. ‘Wildlife are our Oil. Conservation, Pastoralism and NGOs in the
Tarangire Ecosystem, Tanzania.’ (Oxford University). Hassan’s thesis was awarded the
Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology and the Audrey
Richards’ Prize for best Africanist thesis in the UK 2008-9.
Anna Larsen. 2006. ‘Mountain farmers in the Upper Selška Valley: Negotiating agrienvironmental production options in Slovenia.’ (Oxford University).
Lauren Rickards. 2006. ‘Capable, enlightened and masculine. Constructing English agriculturalist
ideals in formal agricultural education 1845-2003.’ (Oxford University).
4. Consultancy work
2004
A report for UN AIDS on migration in Africa.
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5. Lectures and Conference Activity since 2004
International Conferences and Panels Organised
July 14
Co-convenor of international conference ‘The Green Economy in the South’, University
of Dodoma Tanzania with circa 90 delegates.
Nov 13
Co-convenor of panel on ‘Visual Images and Popular Representations of Development’
at DSA conference, University of Birmingham
Jun 12
Convened an international Symposium at Manchester on Capitalism, Democracy and
Celebrity Advocacy. 25 speakers and discussants from Europe, North and Latin
America and Africa convened for two days.
Feb 12
Co-convenor of Panel on ‘Celebrity, Media and Vital Causes’ at the AAAG, New York.
June 11
Co-convenor of Nature Inc! in the ISS at the Hague, attended by nearly 200 people, and
organised a panel on the environmental film at that conference.
July 11
Co-convenor of final meeting of the Spectacular Environmentalism Group (AHRC
funded).
Sept 10
Co-convenor of first meeting of the Spectacular Environmentalism Group (AHRC
funded).
Dec 08
Convened the first meeting of the Celebrity and Environment Research Group
Sept 08
Co-convenor (with Rosaleen Duffy) of an international Symposium at Manchester on
Conservation and Capitalism. 25 speakers with invitations sent to diverse African
countries, India, Europe, the US as well as the UK.
Nov 04
Co-convenor of a panel on the social impacts of protected areas and displacement, at the
World Conservation Conference, Bangkok.
Jun 04
Co-convenor of an interdisciplinary conference called ‘Trees, Rain and Politics in
Africa’ examining issues of environmental change and environmental politics. This was
organised jointly with Paul Lane of the British Institute of East Africa, William Beinart
of St Anthony’s College and Michael Sheridan of Vermont University and attended by
more than 100 people, with more than 30 speakers from overseas.
Lectures and Seminars (** international, * national, travel costs paid or offered)
*June 14 Conservation and Celebrity Advocacy. Paradoxes and Challenges. Keynote presentation
at the British Ecological Society
*June 14 The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy. Keynote presentation at the Development and
Media Studies Association launch.
**May 14 The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy. Keynote presentation at the Sustainability and
Celebrity-Business-Development Nexus Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark
**Mar 14 The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy. Keynote presentation by Skype at the Celebrity
Politics workshop in Trier, Germany
July 13
Conservation, Neoliberalism and the Prospects for the Green Economy. University of
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
May 13
Steven Kanumba, Celebrity and the War Against Poverty. University of Dodoma,
Tanzania.
May 13
Conservation and the Science of Poverty Reduction. Nelson Mandela Institute of
Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania
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Mar 13
Conservation and Development. The political economy of conservation in Tanzania.
University of Dodoma, Tanzania
May 12
Fortress Conservation. Eviction, Power and Conservation Vision. Talk at Manchester
Metropolitan University.
May 12
How to Save the World. Celebrities in Development, University of Roskilde, Denmark;
also at University of Manchester.
**Apr 12 The Contradictions of Celebrity Environmentalism, Muséum national d’Histoire
Naturelle, Paris.
*Apr 12
Celebrities and International Development, IEG, Delhi.
*Apr 12
Fortress Conservation. Eviction, Power and Conservation Vision, Ambedkar
University, Delhi.
Mar 12
Celebrities and International Development, ATREE, Bangalore.
**Mar 12 Trade-offs and Commodities in Ecosystem Services, TERI, Delhi.
*Mar 12 Celebrity Advocacy, Authenticity and NGOs, Sheffield.
*Mar 12 Celebrity Advocacy, Authenticity and NGOs, SOAS.
*Nov 11
Rainforest Foundation UK, Launch Event, Royal Society.
*Nov 11
Celebrity, Authenticity and Development, IDS.
*Nov 11
Celebrity, Authenticity and Development, Development Education Research Centre
UCL.
*Apr 11
Celebrity and Development, Bristol University International Development Conference.
*Mar 11 Celebrity and the Environment, Land Economy, Cambridge University.
**Feb 11 La conservation de biodiversité et l’étude de la conservation: où en sommes-nous et
où allons-nous? Montpellier.
**Nov 10 Celebrity and the Environment, Media Studies and Journalism, University of Athens
*Feb 10
Celebrity and the Environment, UCL, Anthropology Department
*Nov 09
Celebrity and the Environment. Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Also
presented as an international teleseminar of the Transboundary Protected Area Research
initiative; and to the Department of Drama at Manchester University.
‘Humanitarianism and Celebrity. What has changed?’ Humanitarian and
Conflict Response Centre ESRC seminar, University of Manchester
Oct 09
Celebrity and the Environment. Department of Botany, UCT. Also to Department of
Geography, Kings College London. (*)
Apr-May 09 Celebrity and the Environment. Columbia University, New York (**); Dartmouth
College (*); University of Massachusetts; and Berkeley (*).
* Dec 08 Celebrity and the Environment. Destin, LSE.
** Nov 08 The Work of Conservation NGOs in Africa. Department of Geography, University of
Zurich.
** Nov 08 Celebrity and the Environment. Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich.
Jan-Apr 08 Talks on ‘Celebrity Conservation’ and ‘The Work of Conservation NGOs’ in
Bangalore (Ashoka Trust for Ecology and the Environment, The International Institute
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of Science and The Institute for Social and Economic Change); Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru
University and WWF) and Mysore (Nature Conservation Foundation).
Sept 07
Celebrity Conservation. Fame, Sex, Wealth, Power … and the Environment. Social
Development Seminar Series, University of Manchester.
Feb 07
Celebrity Conservation. Fame, Sex, Wealth, Power … and the Environment.
Departmental Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Oct 06
Celebrity Conservation. Departmental Seminar, Resource Management in Asia Pacific
Research Programme, ANU, Canberra.
*May 06 The New Empires of Nature. Science and Empire workshop, Department of History,
University of Oxford.
*Feb 06
Neoliberalism and conservation. Departmental seminar, Anthropology, UCL.
*Nov 05
Equitable international web based access to aerial photograph collections. The RGS,
London.
Feb 05
Power and myth in conservation. Departmental Seminar, Environmental Science
Programme, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
*Nov 04
Equitable and Sustainable Development? The case of conservation. Departmental
Seminar, Institute for Development and Policy, University of Manchester.
Conference Activity (** international travel and costs paid; * national travel and costs paid)
Nov 13
The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy for International Development, DSA,
Birmingham
**Apr 12 Payments for Environmental Services in India, Delhi.
Feb 12
The Production and Performance of Authenticity, AAG, New York.
Sept 11
Paper presented on New Development Actors Panel, DSA, York.
**July 11 Panel Organiser on Environmental Film, Nature (Inc) the Hague.
June 11
European African Studies Association, Uppsala. Panel discussant and chair.
**May 11 Rockefeller Archive Workshop, New York.
Apr 11
Panel Discussant and panellist at Association of American Geographers
Sept 10
A Review of Research into the Relationships between Protected Areas and Human
Well Being. Panel presentation at the Chronic Poverty Research Centre Conference,
Manchester.
Sept 10
Celebrity Colonialism and Conservation in Africa. Panel presentation at the African
Studies Association, UK, Oxford.
*May 10 The relationship between human well being and protected areas. Keynote talk at
conservation conference, Oxford Brookes University.
May 10
Conservation, Neoliberalism and Wildlife Film. Talk at the ‘Brief Environmental
History of Neoliberalism’ conference, Lund, Sweden.
*Apr 10
The relationships between protected areas and human well being. Talk presented at the
Zoological Society of London Symposium on Poverty and Conservation
Dec 09
Neoliberal Conservation and Celebrity. Talk at the American Anthropological
Association and chair of the double panel on Neoliberal Conseravtion.
**Oct 09 Neoliberal Conservation. DIVERSITAS Conference, Cape Town.
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June 09
Second meeting of the Celebrity and Environment Study Group in Oxford.
Aug 08
Presented a paper at the International Association for the Study of Common Property,
annual conference, Cheltenham
**May 08 Presented work at ‘Disobedient Knowledges’ meeting on the work of Conservation
NGOs, Washington DC
Apr 08
Presented paper at the Annual conference of the Association of American Geographers
and co-convened its panel on Conservation and Capitalism.
*Feb 08
Political Ecology. Commentator at a workshop at Delhi University
*Oct 05
People protecting nature. Social dimensions of environmental conservation.
Commentator at an international workshop hosted by James Carrier and Paige West,
Oxford Brooks University.
**Jun 04 Communities and forest governance. Commentator at International Symposium on
Forest Certification at Yale Program on Forest Certification.
6. Research Collaborations
I am collaborating with colleagues all over the world on joint writing and research projects on
several themes.
The first, which has grown in collaboration with Rosaleen Duffy is a network of scholars from
Universities in the UK, US, Canada, Europe and Southern Africa who are exploring the
relationships between conservation and capitalism. This group met at the Symposium held at
Manchester in 2008 and which lead to a special double issue of papers in the journal Antipode.
Many of the participants were present at the 2009 American Anthropological Association
conference to present papers in a double panel of that meeting. There have been subsequent
meetings in Lund (2010) and a large international conference of 200 attendees at the ISS, the
Hague (July 2011).
The second comprises a group of scholars and activists who are comparing and collating
experiences of dealing with the larger conservation NGOs. I was part of a group led by Jim Igoe
(Dartmouth) and Sian Sullivan (Birkbeck) that submitted a successful bid for funds to the Wenner
Gren Foundation and the IIED. It brought together a group of over 20 participants from India,
South and North America, Australasia, the Pacific, Africa and Europe in Washington DC. The
outputs of that meeting were published in the policy journal Current Conservation. It has lead to
the establishment of the ‘Just Conservation’ website (www.justconservation.org). The latest
manifestation of this research is a special section in production for the journal Conservation and
Society on the Anthropology of Conservation NGOs.
I am developing research into celebrity and its role in development and environmental affairs. This
enrols researchers from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, South Africa and the USA. I worked
with Mike Goodman (Geography, Kings), and Jo Littler (Middlesex) to put in a successful bid for
AHRC funding for this network. I lead an international symposium at Manchester in July 2012
which brought together 30 researchers and has lead to two special issues in different journals.
7. Long Term Research Visits
Much of my work on rural livelihoods, development, conservation and governance hinges on long
term and in depth studies, participant observation and interviews. That record comprises.
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July 12 – Aug 13
Sabbatical research in Hanang, Tanzania. I undertook research on microfinance and long-term
livelihood change.
Jan 08 – Mar 08
ESRC-funded fellowship in India. This was part of a research fellowship exploring relationships
between conservation and livelihoods.
Oct 06 – Dec 06
ESRC-funded fellowship in the Southern Alps, Australia. This was part of a research fellowship
exploring relationships between conservation and livelihoods.
Jan 07 – May 07
ESRC-funded fellowship in New Zealand. This was part of a research fellowship exploring
relationships between conservation and livelihoods.
Jan 05 – Mar 05
Oppenheimer funded work in Grahamstown on conservation and livelihoods.
Aug 99 – Oct 00
British Academy funded post-doctoral research in Rukwa, Tanzania. I examined change to
livelihoods and natural resource governance.
Jan 95 – Dec 96
ODA funded research on conservation and livelihood change in north-east Tanzania.
Teaching
1. Teaching
New Initiatives across Universities
I have established with colleagues a unique website which attempts to bring environmental film into
the classroom. We took an extraordinary, multi-award winning film ‘Green’ and set up a website
which made the film physically accessible and intellectually appealing to educators by writing a
series of brief essays, together with a response from the filmmaker, to facilitate its use in the
classroom. The site is www.studyinggreen.wordpress.com
University of Manchester – courses taught
2013-14
‘Representations in Development’ for Masters in International Development.
‘Conservation and Development’ for Masters in International Development.
‘Development Research’ for Masters in International Development.
‘Social Development Fieldwork’ (in Uganda) for Masters in International Development.
2011-12
‘Representations in Development’ for Masters in International Development.
2009-10
‘Conservation and Development’ for Masters in International Development.
2008-9
‘Conservation and Development’ for the Masters in International Development
‘Development Research’ for the Masters in International Development.
I also planned the Social Development Cluster’s fieldwork trip to Uganda.
2007-8
‘Conservation and Development’ for Masters in International Development.
Recommended for a teaching award
2005-6
‘Environment and Development’. for Masters in International Development.
Rhodes University – courses taught
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2005
Designed and delivered a course on ‘Social and Economic Aspects of Complex
Systems’ to second year undergraduates.
University of Oxford – courses taught
2003-5
Convenor and principal lecturer in ‘Communities, Conservation and Development’. A
core course for the MSc in Biodiversity Conservation at the Department of Geography.
2002-5
Co-convenor and principal lecturer in ‘Environmental Policy’. A core course for the
Masters in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the Department of Geography.
2002-5
Designed and delivered two core courses: ‘Environments and Environmentalisms’ and
‘Geographies of Inequality’ for the Undergraduate Honours Degree in Geography.
University of Cambridge – courses taught
2000-2
I convened a series of lectures and tutorials about pastoral societies for the Geography of
Africa a third year undergraduate option.
2. Teaching Assessments
University of Manchester
I have received assessments on four courses while at Manchester, two of which I inaugurated. Note
that I was not teaching 2010-11 or 2012-13, and taught only one course in 2011-12. Class sizes
were small across the Institute in 2013-14.
Conservation and Development
I created this course and it is by far the best course I have taught. Students have loved it with
significant numbers stating that it was the best course they had had. I enjoyed teaching it too. The
course has been commended by the School in all the years it has been taught.
2013-14: n = 5 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
Prof Brockington’s teaching was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The unit was well organised
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The classes were delivered in an enthusiastic manner
Overall I enjoyed this unit
100
100
100
100
100
100
Mostly
Agree
-
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
-
Mostly
Disagree
-
Disagree
Mostly
Agree
13
20
13
13
17
23
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
-
Mostly
Disagree
-
Disagree
Mostly
Agree
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
Mostly
Disagree
Disagree
-
2009-10: n = 30 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
The teaching I received was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The unit was well structured
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The unit was engaging and interesting
Overall I enjoyed this unit
87
80
87
87
83
77
-
2008-9: n = 18 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
16
The teaching I received was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The teaching staff were approachable
The unit documentation was useful
The unit was engaging and interesting
Overall I enjoyed this unit
89
83
76
72
78
70
5
11
18
28
11
28
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
-
Agree
Mostly
Agree
9
13
9
22
13
4
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
5
-
Mostly
Disagree
-
Disagree
2007-8: n = 22 (figures in percentages)
Issue
The teaching I received was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The teaching staff were approachable
The unit documentation was useful
The unit was engaging and interesting
Overall I enjoyed this unit
91
87
87
78
87
96
-
Representations of Development
I co-created this course with Uma Kothari. It has been well received.
2013-14: n = 7 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
Prof Brockington’s teaching was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The unit was well organised
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The classes were delivered in an enthusiastic manner
Overall I enjoyed this unit
100
87
71
100
87
100
Mostly
Agree
13
29
13
-
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
-
Mostly
Disagree
-
Disagree
Mostly
Agree
29
29
14
14
-
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
14
Mostly
Disagree
14
-
Disagree
Mostly
Disagree
12
Disagree
-
2009-10: n = 9 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
Prof Brockington’s teaching was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The unit was well structured
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The unit was engaging and interesting
Overall I enjoyed this unit
71
71
71
100
86
76
-
Environment and Development
This is a core course, and the first that I delivered at Manchester.
2006-7: n = 17 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
The teaching I received was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The teaching staff were readily approachable
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The unit documentation was useful
Overall I enjoyed this unit
56
29
52
31
40
40
Mostly
Agree
36
53
36
38
48
36
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
18
18
12
31
12
12
Development Research
This is a compulsory course for all our students and not as popular as specialist courses.
17
-
2013-4: n = 38 (figures in percentages)
Issue
Agree
Prof Brockington’s teaching was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The unit was well organised
The unit provided for participation and sharing of ideas
The classes were delivered in an enthusiastic manner
Overall I enjoyed this unit
71
40
47
61
55
37
Mostly
Agree
34
29
40
32
29
29
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
5
21
11
5
16
24
Mostly
Disagree
5
3
8
Disagree
Mostly
Agree
68
68
40
45
50
54
Neither Agree
nor Disagree
12
12
11
16
7
13
Mostly
Disagree
4
4
18
4
16
Disagree
5
3
3
2008-9: n = 74 (figures in percentages)
Issue
The teaching I received was excellent
The material was intellectually stimulating
The teaching staff were readily approachable
The unit was engaging and interesting
The unit documentation was useful
Overall I enjoyed this unit
Agree
16
16
49
19
39
16
18
1
1
University of Oxford
Masters Courses. The results for the core course on Environmental Policy in 2003 are
shown below (n = 12). The questionnaire did not yield an overall average score. I only have
records for this course as subsequent masters courses’ teaching assessments were
administered centrally and the results not distributed.
I learnt a great deal from this teacher
The lecturer com m unicates ideas
effectivley
7
6
10
5
8
6
4
4
2
2
3
1
0
0
St rongly
Agree
agree
Mildly
Mildly
agree
disagree
Disagree St rongly
No
St rongly agree
6
6
5
4
4
2
3
0
2
Mildly
agree
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Mildly agree
Mildly
disagree
Disagree
St rongly
No response
0
My interest in this subject has been stimulated by the teacher
Agree
Disagree
1
Mildly Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Excellent
Strongly
agree
Mildly disagree
Overall effectiveness as a University Lecturer
8
Agree
Mildly agree
disagree
The lecturer encourages critical thinking and understanding
Strongly
agree
Agree
disagree response
Strongly No response
disagree
19
Very Good
Good
Satisfactory
Poor
Very Poor
No response
Undergraduate courses. I was responsible for collecting the data and analysing them myself
using questionnaires the department designed. They do not yield an overall average score.
The highlights are:
Env. & Environ’isms 2004
N = 102
Geog. of Inequality 2003
N = 41
The lecturer is well prepared
The lecturer is well prepared
The lecturer is well prepared
30
60
25
50
20
40
15
30
10
20
5
10
0
0
Strongly
agree
The lecturer encourages critical thinking and
understanding
Mildly
agree
50
40
30
20
10
0
Strongly
agree
Agree
Mildly
agree
10
5
0
Strongly
agree
Agree
Mildly
agree
Strongly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Agree
Mildly
agree
12
25
10
20
8
15
6
10
4
5
2
0
0
Mildly
agree
Strongly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Overall effectiveness as a University Lecturer
35
Mildly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
8
15
6
10
4
5
2
0
20
Po
or
re
sp
on
se
No
Ve
ry
Po
or
G
oo
d
fa
ct
or
y
Sa
tis
oo
d
G
Ve
ry
Ex
ce
lle
nt
Po
or
re
sp
on
se
No
Ve
ry
Po
or
G
oo
d
fa
ct
or
y
Sa
tis
G
oo
d
0
Ve
ry
Agree
Mildly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Overall effectiveness as a University Lecturer
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
10
20
Strongly
agree
Overall effectiveness as a University Lecturer
12
25
Ex
ce
lle
nt
Agree
14
30
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
14
30
Mildly
agree
I learnt a great deal from this teacher
16
Agree
Agree
I learnt a great deal from this teacher
I learnt a great deal from this teacher
35
Strongly
agree
Strongly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Po
or
15
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
re
sp
on
se
20
Mildly
agree
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
25
Agree
My interest in this subject has been stimulated by
the teacher
My interest in this subject has been stimulated by
the teacher
My interest in this subject has been stimulated by
the teacher
30
Strongly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
No
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Ve
ry
Mildly
agree
Mildly
agree
60
oo
d
Agree
Agree
The lecturer encourages critical thinking and
understanding
The lecturer encourages critical thinking and
understanding
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Strongly
agree
Strongly
agree
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
Po
or
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Agree
fa
ct
or
y
Mildly
Disagree Strongly
No
disagree
disagree response
G
Mildly
agree
Ve
ry
Agree
Ex
ce
lle
nt
Strongly
agree
G
oo
d
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Sa
tis
Env. & Environ’isms 2002
N = 73
University of Cambridge
Undergraduate courses. The graphs show the highlights of feedback from departmental
questionnaires. The questionnaires were not structured to yield an average score. Note the
graphs below show percentage response, not actual numbers.
Geography of Africa 2000-1. N = 30
Geography of Africa 2001-2. N = 31
Lecture Preparation
Lecture Preparation
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
very good
good
acceptable
poor
very good
good
acceptable
poor
Interest of Subject Matter
Interest of Subject Matter
70
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Very interesting
Very interesting
interesting
fair
interesting
fair
poor
poor
Overall Satisfaction with the Lecturer
Overall Satisfaction with the Lecturer
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
very satisfied
satisfied
not satisfied
very
dissatisfied
very satisfied
Did lectures meet your expectations?
satisfied
not satisfied
very
dissatisfied
Did lectures meet your expectations?
100
100
80
80
60
60
40
40
20
20
0
0
yes
no
yes
21
no
3. Examination Responsibilities
2005-11
First and second marker on diverse courses assessments and dissertations
submitted by students taught by the Social Development Cluster
2002-5
First marker for ‘finals’ papers in Human Geography subjects at the University of
Oxford
2001-2
First marker for selected questions of finals papers for the Geography of Africa at
the University of Cambridge.
4. Appointments held as Tutor
University of Manchester
2005-10
I have been the personal tutor of Masters students studying International
Development, following their progress and attending to their needs through the
year as well as accompanying them on field trips.
University of Oxford
2002-5
Tutor in Geography at St Hugh’s College. I oversaw the studies of up to 18
undergraduate students and delivered courses of tutorials (8 per topic) on Human
Geography (year 1), the Human Environment (year two), and the Philosophy and
Practice of Geography (year 3). For these courses each student wrote one 2-3,000
word essay a week which I read and marked. I also supervised all the human
geography dissertations, gave career advice, ran revision classes and interviewed
candidates for college places.
University of Cambridge
2000-2
Director of Studies, New Hall. I oversaw the studies of up to 13 students, and
taught tutorials in Human Geography to first years. I also ran revision classes and
gave career advice as well as interviewing candidates to the college.
Knowledge Transfer
My engagement with conservation is based on three long term periods of fieldwork in
rural Tanzania, which examined the social consequences of strict conservation and the
politics of devolved, village-based natural resource management. Its impact is visible in
the recent resolve of the WCMC to monitor the social impacts of protected areas, in the
desire of conservation organisations to pay for me to attend their meetings, and by the
invitation to join two of the IUCN’s Commissions. I have also been a guest editor of one
of its journals: Policy Matters. All the evaluators of the ESRC Fellowship that I held
which explored the Social Impacts of Protected Areas strongly praised my engagement
with policy makers and conservation practitioners.
I have begun to explore how international conservation finance and networks work. With
a student I have compiled a list of nearly all the international conservation NGOs working
in anglophone Africa. We are now able to map where they work, who funds them, who
serves on their boards and as patron, and how much money they channel to what sort of
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project. This has led to a clearer analysis of the political economy of African conservation
than currently exists.
One particularly interesting area of work has been efforts to encourage the larger
conservation NGOs to form a self-policed code of practice with respect to human rights.
This work is being led by Nick Winer who has been an honorary Research Fellow at the
School. The longer term project of which this is part is that the conservation community
needs to see its activities as part of a broader set of interventions, which includes
Development policy, and to which the same standards and principles apply. Currently we
can have ridiculous situations whereby eviction of people to create dams and
development projects requires elaborate protocols and procedures to ensure as little harm
is done to evictees as possible, yet eviction for conservation requires no such measures.
We want to encourage NGOs to form a set of best practice principles by which they will
police their own community to discourage some of the abuses we have observed
elsewhere. We have set up the ‘Just Conservation’ website to facilitate information
sharing about this issue (www.justconservation.org).
Finally some of these critiques of conservation are making their way into more popular
and accessible forms. I was both an advisor and one of a panel of experts and voices
interviewed to make the films ‘A Place without People’ (http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=QrEmUjNhwyo), ‘Unnatural Histories: the Serengeti’ (BBC4 June 2011) and
‘Conservation’s Dirty Secrets (Channel 4 June 2011).
The other channel for my engagement with conservation NGOs is as a board member and
advisor. I serve on the board of Micaia, a rapidly growing NGO working in Mocambique,
which works in environmental issues and rural development. I also serve on the board of
Dakshin, a similar, but smaller outfit based in India, and as an advisor to CREE a US
based funder. Finally I am also an assessor for the Katerva Foundation sustainability
awards and a nominoator for the Paul K. Feyeraben prize.
With respect to my work on celebrity I have recently written an article for the NGO trade
journal Third Sector which reports recent findings from the research project and have
been using my research project website to generate interest and traffic to the site as well
as engage the user community of interviewees with the results.
1. Invitations to policy making and practitioner audiences. (** international travel paid)
Mar 12
Celebrities and Development (joint with Comic Relief), BOND, London.
**Feb 07 Eviction for Conservation. Presentation at the ‘Vision 20/20 Initiative’, the
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge. (International travel as I
journeyed from New Zealand to give the talk).
**Mar 06 Working Group meeting on the Social Impacts of Protected Areas, Convention on
Biological Diversity, Curitiba, Brazil.
Nov 04
Assessing the social impact of protected areas. The World Conservation
Congress, Bangkok.
Sept 03
Equity at the heart of conservation. Presentation to the Governance Stream of the
IUCN’s World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa.
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2. Involvement in continuing professional development.
2006
I designed a short course for a staff member of the Ford Foundation (East Africa)
as part of her personal training which has resulted in a request for more courses,
as well as an invitation to join the board of this staff member’s own development
NGO.
3. Invited Service on Advisory International Bodies and NGOs.
I am an invited member of two Commissions of the World Conservation Union (IUCN):
the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) since 2006, and the Commission on
Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP), since 2003. The IUCN’s
Commissions are international networks of experts in diverse aspects of conservation
research and practice which examine and attempt to modify conservation practice in
accordance with the IUCN’s vision of ‘a just world which values biodiversity’.
I have been invited to nominate candidates for awards from the newly established Paul K.
Feyerabend Foundation, which is based in Switzerland and to assess nominations for the
Katerva Foundation awards.
I serve on the board of one NGO: MICAIA which works on agricultural development and
environmental justice in Mocambique.
I am on the advisory board of CREE which promotes conservation and rural development in
diverse sites globally, and Dakshin and environment and development NGO based in India.
Academic Service
1. General responsibility for an area of School academic activity
On arrival in Manchester I set up a fortnightly reading and research group for staff and postdoctoral students. Its primary purpose is to ‘grow’ PhD students. It provides an environment
where they can dissect and discuss collections of recent academic articles or works of major
thinkers with more senior colleagues. They also use it to present research plans, initial
findings after fieldwork, and chapters as they write up. I and my colleagues also find it a
useful environment to develop our own ideas, and have presented research proposals and
draft papers to the group. We also invite visiting speakers. The general format is for a
collection of readings to be provided a week before each meeting with one person guiding the
group discussion through them.
Positions of Responsability
2014-15
School Director of Research, SEED.
2013-14
Associate School Director of Research, SEED.
2013-14
Joint Champion of the Environment Research Theme for SEED.
2010-12
Research director of the IDPM, reviewing grant applications and preparing my
department for the REF2014 research evaluation exercise.
2009-11
Co-ordinator of the Society and Environment Research Group, a cross School
initiative from 2009-2011. Recent invited speakers include Arun Agrawal and the
late Elinor Ostrom.
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2009+
Co-convenor the IDPM’s Environment and Development research theme with
Phil Woodhouse
2009-10
Programme Director of the same Masters programmes and responsible for over
140 students on these programmes
2008-9
Deputy Programme Director for the Masters in International Development,
Poverty and Development and Development Studies and organised the field trip
that year.
2007-8
Convenor of the Social Development Seminar Series
2. Service as an External Examiner or Referee
External Examiner: UEA Undergraduate Degree in Development Studies 2006-8; UCL
Masters Degree in Anthropology, Environment and Development 2012+
Member of the Management Board of an EC Marie Curie EXT Award 2006-11.
Member of the Research Advisory Board of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
PhD Viva examinations for the Universities of Cambridge (2002); Stockholm (2003, 2011);
Oxford (2004, 2007); the Central European University, Budapest (2006); Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, (2006); Sheffield (2007); UCL (2007; 2014); Kent (2009), Sydney (2010) and
the University of Manchester (2010 twice; 2013; 2014), SOAS (2011); IDS (2011). I was
also invited to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris for a continuation review
(2011).
Reviewer for research proposals for the ESRC, the Royal Society (Newton Post-Doctoral
Fellowships), the National Science Foundation (USA), ESPA, DfID, the Newton Trust
(Cambridge University), the Wildlife Conservation Society, Flora and Fauna International,
the Welcome Trust and the International Foundation for Science.
Expert assess or and panel member for General Research Grants, Development Research
Grants and Post-doctoral Research Grants for the Academy of Finland, Environment and
Society Panel.
Reviewer of publications for Africa, African Affairs, Agricultural Systems, American
Anthropologist, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Area,
Biological Conservation, Conservation Biology, Conservation and Society, Development and
Change, , Environmental Communication, Environmental Conservation, Environmental
Science and Policy, Geoforum, Geographical Journal, Global Environmental Change,
Human Ecology, Human Organisation, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Development
Studies, Journal of Environment and Development, Journal of Modern African Studies,
Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Local
Environments, Mountain Research and Development, Oryx, Natural Areas Journal, Policy
Matters, Review of Black Political Economy, Society and Natural Resources,
Transformations and World Development.
Invited reviewer of book proposals and manuscripts for Routledge, James Currey, Earthscan,
Berg and Blackwells.
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3. Service as Mentor
I have worked with a number of colleagues as a mentor. These include
2011-2013. Kirsten Howarth (now a full time lecturer elsewhere at the University of Manchester)
2012 to date Tomas Frederiksen
2013 to date Joanne Jordan
2014 to date Jose Cortez
References
I will nominate referees if this application is taken up
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