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Dr. Darren McCauley

Lecturer in Energy Politics
(MA Ulster, PhD Queens)
 

Contact Details
Room 19.202
Tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3276
E-mail: d.mccauley@qub.ac.uk

Teaching Areas

I currently lecture and give tutorials in the areas of comparative European politics and research methods. At postgraduate level, I contribute environmental and energy lectures to the MA module on European Governance and the MSc course on Leadership in Sustainable Development. I aim to run a new third year course on ‘Climate Change: Politics, Policies and Governance’.

Research Interests

Main research areas: Environmental planning and governance; institutions and governance of climate change; environmental conflicts and social movements; sustainable development; Europeanization; European comparative politics; French politics and society.

My previous work focused on NGOs and Europeanization in the area of sustainable policy-making. Currently, I am focusing on energy policy and governance in the EU as a new appointee and research associate of the Institute for Sustainable World. In particular, I recently conducted research in France on the proliferation of waste-to-energy and nuclear plants as low carbon policy solutions.

I am heavily involved in two research strands. Firstly, I participate in collaborative research as part of the UACES CRN on Energy and Sustainability in the EU. I am secondly an active member of an ESRC project called InCluESV (focusing on the politics of nuclear power). In addition, I am a named participant in several collaborative international research bids in a variety of sustainability research areas. I am also an associate member of the European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN).

I have previously held a full time lectureship at Trinity College Dublin and a brief research position at Leeds University.

PhD/Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise PhD or postgraduate students in any area of energy politics. I particularly encourage proposals in three broad research areas: policy and governance; the politics of climate change; resource conflicts and social movements. I also encourage any such proposals examining international, European, national or local dimensions.

Selected/Recent Publications

2010 ‘Bottom-up Europeanization Exposed’, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), (forthcoming)

2010 ‘The Europeanization of Domestic Opportunities for Movements’, Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), (forthcoming)

2010 ‘The EU, France and Waste-to-Energy’ In C. Rootes and L. Leonard, eds. In: Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure. London: Routledge (available to pre-order)

2010 ‘Environmental Disputes in France’ In L. Leonard and Barry, J. eds. In: Global Ecological Politics. London: Emerald Publishing (available to pre-order) – part of the series in ‘Advances in Ecopolitics’

2009. ‘Wasting Energy? Campaigns against Waste-to Energy Sites in France’, Environmental Politics, 18(6), pp.917-938.

2008. ‘Governance and Sustainable Development: Promoting the Inclusion of Civil Society’, Environmental Policy and Governance, 18(3), pp.152-167.

2008. ‘Europeanisation as Resource Empowerment for NGOs’, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 9(3), pp. 265-282

2008. ‘Understanding Environmental Mobilisation in France within the context of Europeanisation’, Journal of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, 2(2) pp. 1-14

2007. ‘Environmental Mobilisation and Resource-Opportunity Usage’, French Politics, 5(4), pp.333-353.

2007. ‘The Impact of Europe on Environmental Movements: Evidence from France and Russia’, Queens Europeanisation Series, 2/07, pp.1-23 http://www.qub.ac.uk/pisp/FileStore/EuropeanisationFiles/Filetoupload,87094,en.pdf