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Robbie Watt is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. His academic background includes an Honours degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Glasgow (2010) and an MSc in Climate Change and Development from the University of Sussex (2011). He worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Development Studies, focusing on low-carbon and climate-resilient development before joining the University of Manchester to pursue a PhD in 2012. He completed his doctorate at the Global Development Institute in 2016, with research funded by the Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Value. His doctoral work examined the cultural political economy of carbon markets, involving extensive fieldwork in Europe and India. In addition to his lecturing role, he served as part-time faculty in the Climate Policy team at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance during 2020-21. His research interests revolve around the tensions and contradictions associated with carbon offsetting and the cultural dynamics that connect policy processes to neoliberal climate governance, with current research exploring the links between carbon trading and cryptocurrency initiatives.
University of Manchester • Manchester, England
Teaching modules on Politics of Global Climate Change, Critical Environmental Politics, and other related areas.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.