Dr Hannah Hughes

Dr Hannah Hughes

Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Climate Change

Department of International Politics

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Profile

My research and teaching are motivated by a deep concern for the state of the environment and the political, economic and social institutions that produce and sustain degrading human and planetary relations. I have explored this through the role and relationship between knowledge, power and environmental action in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and collaboratively with Dr Alice Vadrot in the the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), conceptualising these global assessment bodies as sites where negotiations of climate change and biodiversity start. My research is informed by the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and I am particularly interested in the reproduction of social order and the methodological innovation and the ethical stakes of undertaking this form of scholarship.

Additional Information

Office: 2.08 International Politics Building

Office hours: Tuesday 1-3pm

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Lecturer
Grader
Coordinator
Moderator

IP 3/1420 Climate Change Politics

IP22320 The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module

Research

Co-Investigator ESRC project: The Politics of Science in International Climate Cooperation

Publications

Allan, JI, Borthakur, A, Kinninburgh, F, Petersmann, M, Balayannis, A, Barry, A, Beck, S, Elliott, K, Forsyth, T, Hardon, A, Hughes, H, Macnaghten, P, Selin, H, Sun, Y & Vadrot, A 2025, 'Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions', Global Environmental Change, vol. 92, 102995. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102995
Hughes, H 2024, 'Actors, activities, and forms of authority in the IPCC', Review of International Studies, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 333-353. 10.1017/S0260210523000207
Hughes, H 2024, 'Bringing the climate into existence', International Relations, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 281-291. 10.1177/00471178241267998
Bayer, P, Crippa, L, Hughes, H & Hermansen, E 2024, 'Government participation in virtual negotiations: Evidence from IPCC approval sessions', Climatic Change, vol. 177, no. 8, 132. 10.1007/s10584-024-03790-7
Hughes, H 2024, The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781009341554
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