ABOUT US

Dr. Derek Bell
Simon Caney
Dr. Graham Long
Pia Halme
Clare Heyward

Dr. Derek Bell (project co-investigator) is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Newcastle University. He is currently working with Simon Caney on a book, Global Justice and Climate Change, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Derek has published widely on liberal approaches to environmental issues, discussing ideas such as environmental justice, environmental citizenship and environmental democracy. He is the co-editor, with Professor Andrew Dobson (Keele University), of Environmental Citizenship (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).

Simon Caney (project co-investigator) is Professor in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. Simon's research interests are in contemporary political philosophy and focuses, in particular, on global justice, poverty, and the environment. He is the author of Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). For 2007-2008 he is a Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is currently completing two books – On Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice and Climate Change (co-authored with Dr Derek Bell). Both of these books have been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press. His departmental website is: 
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&person=313&special

Dr. Graham Long (research assistant) is a Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle. He is currently working on the moral implications of disagreement over questions of climate change, and the ethical significance of the environment for theories of just warfare. More broadly, Graham researches and teaches in the area of global justice, especially just war theory and cosmopolitan distributive justice. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Liberalism (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004).

Pia Halme (funded doctoral studentship) is a PhD student at the University of Newcastle. Her thesis examines the concept of ecological debt from the perspective of political philosophy. It aims to provide a normative defence of the importance and practical relevance of the idea of ecological debt. Her general research interests lie in normative international political theory, especially global (environmental) justice and human rights.

Clare Heyward (funded doctoral studentship)is a D.Phil student at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her thesis investigates the relationship between cultural and environmental justice. In particular, it will examine how environmental justice might be derived from a concern with cultural membership and how global environmental problems impact on a culturally-sensitive theory of justice. Clare’s general research interests include liberal theories of multiculturalism, global justice and intergenerational justice.