Dr Celine Germond-Duret
Lecturer in Environmental Politics and PolicyProfile
I have got a background in International Relations, and research interests in global sustainable development, international marine policy and the blue economy, international climate politics, and indigenous peoples.
My research appeared in Development and Change; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Marine Policy; Third World Quarterly; Sustainable Development; Science of the Total Environment, among others. I co-edited a special issue on the Blue Economy published in The Geographical Journal; an edited volume on Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions (Routledge, 2023); and I co-authored the “blue economy” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-AAG).
I am leading (PI) the British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant 'SeaSights: Seaside towns and insights from young people’, and the Leverhulme Trust research project grant 'Ocean Justice and the Blue Economy'.
Member of the Office for Environmental Protection College of Experts.
Member of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, where I am leading the 'People and the Ocean' Hub.
Short clip "60 seconds with... Dr Celine Germond-Duret" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCs4fkIe1M
And to know (a bit) more about the blue economy, you can listen to this podcast: The Blue Economy - Transforming Tomorrow - Podcast.co
Co-Director for Postgraduate Teaching. Click here for a short clip on our Masters programmes in politics and IR
Member of the organisation committee of the Litfest-Lancaster University Environmental Lecture series (link to the 2023 George Monbiot's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B021oNQ9F3Y ; link to the 2024 Caroline Lucas' lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQa3AD2PW4 )
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Member of the FASS and LUMS Research Ethics Committee.
Research Overview
My research interests include the international relations of the environment, global development, and North-South relations. My specific expertise covers marine policy and blue economy, international climate politics and global inequalities, indigenous peoples, as well as discourse analysis. My approach is framed within deconstructive and postcolonial approaches.
Research Interests
I obtained my PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on international relations, development studies, continental philosophy, and human geography. My main focus is on the analysis of discourses and narratives surrounding development policies, international environmental protection and sustainability (including climate politics), as well as marine policy and the blue economy. My expertise spans across global, national and local scales.
My PhD explored development narratives through a discourse analysis that revealed how traditional knowledge was systematically undermined and how development policies were underpinned by colonial thinking. It also scrutinised external interventions conducted on behalf of nature conservation. These are themes that I have kept exploring since. For instance, I have shown that the tradition/modernity dichotomy that is often used in the case of Indigenous peoples maintains harmful hierarchisations (rich/poor, advanced/backward etc.) and justifies neo-colonial interventions. My research on the marine environment has highlighted the need to decolonise knowledge and representations about the sea (moving away from Western and terra-centric visions that have represented the sea as placeless and further acknowledging and valuing non-Western, Indigenous and traditional representations and uses of the marine environment).
From a methodological perspective, I am proficient in quantitative and qualitative mixed methods. This includes surveys and interviews, discourse analysis, and qualitative and quantitative content analysis. I am also trained in PhotoVoice, a community based participatory research whereby participants document their own engagement and experience with the subject investigated.
External Roles
Member of the Office for Environmental Protection College of Experts.
Member of the Motion for the Ocean steering group, Blackpool Council.
Member of a Scientific Steering Committee, regarding an analysis framework to estimate the environmental impact of chronic kidney disease, AstraZeneca
External Examiner, BSc (Hons) Geography and BSc (Hons) Global Development and Sustainability, Bath Spa University, UK
External Examiner, MA Climate, Justice and Sustainability, University of Limerick, Ireland
Associate Researcher, Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l'Histoire du Temps Present, Geneva, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre du Bois - (fondation-pierredubois.ch)
Member, International Just Sustainable Blue Economy Research Group (IJSBERG), Blue Economy Research Group | IJSBERG Model
Research Grants
The Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Grant for the project: "Ocean justice and the blue economy", 2024-27.
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the project: "SeaSights: Deprived seaside towns and the blue economy - insights from young people", 2023-24.
FASS Policy Fund (research and research-related external engagement) for the project: "Representation of the sea and citizen engagement: Governmental bodies' communication strategy", 2023.
Manchester Geographical Society: "Sense of Place in Morecambe", 2022.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am happy to supervise research projects related to my research field (see above), in particular: environmental politics, climate politics, sustainable development, ocean governance, global development, North-South relations, and Indigenous peoples. I am open to inter/cross-disciplinary projects (e.g. international relations, political science, human geography); as well as to a wide-range of qualitative methods (e.g. discourse analysis, photo elicitation, etc.)
Ocean justice and the blue economy
02/09/2024 → 01/09/2027
Research
Mapping Blue Businesses
01/02/2024 → …
Research
Morecambe Bay Curriculum Development Project
26/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Other
SeaSights: Deprived seaside towns and the blue economy - insights from young people
01/04/2023 → 31/08/2024
Research
Morecambe, the Bay and sense of place
01/11/2021 → …
Research
Representation of the Sea
01/02/2017 → …
Research
Blue Economy
01/03/2016 → …
Research
North West Marine Ecosystems (NWME) Conference 2025
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Blue Economy and Community Resilience
Invited talk
The importance of arts in connecting young people to the blue space
Invited talk
United Nations Ocean Conference III
Other
Written submission on Ocean Justice made to the 2025 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3)
Expert Opinion
The place of ocean justice and traditional knowledge in blue economy developments
Oral presentation
Written submission on ocean and ocean justice made to the OHCHR
Expert Opinion
"SeaSights project - Young people and the Sea"
Invited talk
Written evidence on "Blue development - The place of the blue economy in development strategies" (International Development Committee)
Expert Opinion
Ocean and Coastal Futures 'Ocean Justice' webinar series
Expert Opinion
SeaSights project: Deprived seaside towns and the blue economy – what is blue justice for the younger and older generations
Oral presentation
Morecambe Bay Curriculum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
A regional blue economy?
Participation in conference - Business/Professional
Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources Annual Conference 2024
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Defra - Marine and Fisheries talks
Expert Opinion
Studying the Bay's Blue Economy
Other
Transforming Tomorrow podcast: "The Blue Economy"
Other
Eco-Challenge
Other
Area (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Diverse blue economies: the case for post-technicality
Invited talk
Towards an inclusive and just Sustainable Blue Economy: integrating the social, human and legal perspectives
Expert Opinion
Ports Dialogue: Ports as novel hubs of ocean governance
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British International Studies Association 2023 Conference
Participation in conference - Academic
agenda (Publisher)
Publication peer-review
Connecting with the Bay: creativity, work and wellbeing
Other
Lancaster Environment Lecture: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Blackpool Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee
International Journal of Heritage Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Peer Reviewing of ESRC research proposal
Other
Indo Pacific Journal of Ocean Life (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Arctic Circle Assembly
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Defra - Marine and Fisheries Social Sciences workshop
Expert Opinion
AstraZeneca (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Wiley (Publisher)
Publication peer-review
South African Journal of Science (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Marine Management Organisation
Business Engagement
'Blue Economy Contested Narratives'
Invited talk
Distributed Critique, Weather Engines
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Publication of "Representation of the Sea in the UK Press: Public Awareness of the Oceans"
Other
Public Talk 'Perception of the Sea in Morecambe and Beyond' (ESRC Festival of Social Science)
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021: Perception of the Sea in Morecambe and Beyond
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
'Navigating towards a sustainable blue economy' Roundtable
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Coastal Transitions: Blue Economy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Regional Studies Association Research Network for Sustainability Transitions in the Coastal Zone
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Advancing Green Growth in Peru: a Spotlight on Tourism, Transport and the Blue Economy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
- Pentland Centre