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

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

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
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
Hughes, H & Vadrot, ABM 2023, A Broadened Understanding of Global Environmental Negotiations. in Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-22. 10.1017/9781009179454.002
Hughes, H 2023, 'Circular relations between climate knowledge and action: A reply to ‘Why do climate negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems’, by Ulrich Frey and Jazmin Burgess', Global Discourse, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 176-182. 10.1332/204378921X16836997741580
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