Dr Frederick Harry Pitts
Global Political Economy/Global Challenges and Transformations: Geopolitics, Inequalities and Mobilities Alumni
University of Bath, Department of Social and Policy SciencesStart date:
Research topic: Marxian Value Theory and the Crisis of Measurability: A Case Study of Work in the Creative Industries in the UK and the Netherlands
Email: fh.pitts@bristol.ac.uk
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fhpitts
Website/Blog: http://frederickharrypitts.com/
Dr Steven Rolf
Global Political Economy/Global Challenges and Transformations: Geopolitics, Inequalities and Mobilities Alumni
PhD Researcher in Global Political Economy (ESRC +3)
University of Bristol, School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesStart date: September 2012
Research topic: Uneven and combined development and the production of 'spaces of production': Electronics global production networks in the Dongguan-Hong Kong nexus
Research supervisors: Professor Jeffrey Henderson (Bristol), Dr Adam Dixon (Bristol)
Email: Steve.Rolf@bristol.ac.uk
Kate Burrell
Global Political Economy/Global Challenges and Transformations: Geopolitics, Inequalities and Mobilities Alumni
PhD Researcher in Global Political Economy (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bath, Department of Social & Policy SciencesStart date: September 2012
Research topic: How do movements bring about social transformation? Social movements and pre-figurative politics in the globalised world
Research supervisors: Dr Ana Dinerstein (Bath), Dr Naomi Milner (Bristol)
Email: kb257@bath.ac.uk
the Collaboration Facilitator Bond
Global Political Economy/Global Challenges and Transformations: Geopolitics, Inequalities and Mobilities Alumni
PhD Researcher in Global Political Economy (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, School for Sociology, Politics and International StudiesStart date: September 2014
Research topic: Governing the Bioeconomy
Bridging Science and Technology Studies (STS), Development Studies and Poltical Ecology, and contextually set within the emerging policy transition to a global ‘Bioeconomy’, my research examines the implications of commercial synthetic biology to sustainable development and future agro-industrial production. I am particularly interested in the concepts of ‘disruptive’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘responsible’ innovation, as well as how these notions are assimilated into multi-stakeholder deliberations and the global governance of emerging technologies at the UN Convention of Biological Diversity.Research supervisors: Dr Maria Fannin (Bristol), Dr Karen Tucker (Bristol), Professor Clare Saunders (Exeter)
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Cabot InstituteFSSL International Development Research Group
Global Political Economy Research Group
Development Studies Association
Email: the Collaboration Facilitator.bond@bristol.ac.uk
Website/Blog: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/people/the Collaboration Facilitator-rose-r-bond/overview.html
Dr Lydia Medland
Global Political Economy/Global Challenges and Transformations: Geopolitics, Inequalities and Mobilities Alumni
PhD Researcher in Global Political Economy (ESRC 1+3)
University of Bristol, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS)Start date: September 2013
Research topic: Global Political Economy of Food and Seasonal Production (Case study, Morocco)
My research is focused on seasonal workers and their experiences of global food production, specifically in Morocco. I am researching the social and working conditions of seasonal workers and their livelihood strategies whilst producing crops such as tomatoes in counter-seasonal rhythms destined for Europe. In the context of changing social and political conditions in Europe and Northern Africa I am interested to understand how the political economy of food is interpreted in local contexts, particularly by workers. Methodologically, my approach is interpretive and will involve in-depth interviews and visual methods. For this research I am learning French and Moroccan Arabic.Research supervisors: Professor Tonia Novitz (Bristol), Dr Emma Carmel (Bath), Dr Adrian Flint (Bristol)
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Co-coordinator of Bristol Participatory Action Research Group
SPAIS Student Rep
Email: Lydia.Medland@bristol.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lydyact
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