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Klaus Dodds is executive dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin Warsaw Poland. He is a former editor of The Geographical Journal (2010-2015) and most recently Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance (2018-2024).
Dodds completed his PhD studies at the Department of Geography (now School of Geographical Sciences) University of Bristol in 1994. His research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and fieldwork was carried out in Argentina and the United States. He was a visiting student at Emporia State University in Kansas and the Inter-American Defence College in Washington DC. The PhD examiners were Professor Sir Nigel Thrift FBA and Professor Peter Taylor FBA. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994. Since 1994, he has worked at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and served in the past as dean of the graduate school for the university and director of research for the School of Life Sciences and Environment. He has supervised many PhD students in a range of subjects from critical and popular geopolitics and polar studies to cybersecurity and digital statecraft. He has held visiting fellowships at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Loughborough University and St Cross College and St Johns College University of Oxford. He is a former co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Reece Jones. [1]
In 2005 Klaus Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'" [2] In 2008 he was awarded the Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award by the Political Geography Speciality Group of the AAG. In 2012 he was elected to the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences as Fellow. In 2017 he was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for his work on polar geopolitics. Beyond academia he has worked as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords select committee on the Arctic and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee. He is a former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society (2019-2022) and continues as an Honorary Fellow of British Antarctic Survey. In 2022, he was invited to join the Shackleton Medal (for the Protection of the Polar Regions) awarding committee and has served for four years running as a judge. He remains a long standing Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and more recently a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association.
His books which have been translated into multiple languages include Border Wars (Ebury Press, 2021, Penguin 2022), Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (Palgrave 2017, with Lisa Funnell), Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007, 2014, 2019) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).[ citation needed ]
Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College, London. He also co-founded Nightline.
John A. Agnew, FBA is a prominent British-American political geographer. Agnew was educated at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool in England and Ohio State in the United States.
Ewan William Anderson is an English academic expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography. He is also a former English first-class cricketer who played all his games for Oxford University Cricket Club; and has exhibited his drawings of trees in both Britain and the US.
David William Rhind was a British geographer and expert on geographic information systems (GIS). He was Vice-Chancellor of City University, London, until July 2007.
Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics. He is currently employed as a professor in historical and contemporary studies at Södertörn University.
Matthew Henry Kramer is an American philosopher, and is currently a Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He writes mainly in the areas of metaethics, normative ethics, legal philosophy, and political philosophy. He is a leading proponent of legal positivism. He has been Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy since 2000. He has been teaching at Cambridge University and at Churchill College since 1994.
Stuart Graham Cull-Candy is a British neuroscientist. He holds the Gaddum Chair of Pharmacology and a personal Chair in Neuroscience at University College London. He is also a member of the Faculty of 1000 and held a Royal Society - Wolfson Research position.
Sverker Sörlin is a Swedish historian of ideas, professor of environmental history, and writer.
Ray Hudson, FBA, FAcSS is a British academic. He holds the degrees of PhD and DSc from Bristol University and. DLitt from Durham University. He was Professor of Geography and deputy vice-chancellor at Durham University. From 2014–2015 he was acting Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University. Currently he remains as Emeritus Professor of Geography.
Martin J. Siegert is a British glaciologist, and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Cornwall) at the University of Exeter. He co-Chairs the Diversity in Polar Science Initiative, and has spoken about socio-economic inclusion in Polar Science and indeed broader society.
Reece Jones is an American political geographer and Guggenheim Fellow.
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe, heritage, and archaeological theory.
Harriet Hawkins is a British cultural geographer. She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Geo-Humanities, and the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. As part of Research Excellence Framework 2021, she is a member of the Geography and Environmental Studies expert sub-panel. In 2016, she was winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award. In 2019, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant, as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. She was previously the Chair of the Royal Geographical Society Social and Cultural Geography Research Group.
Sujit Sivasundaram is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Stephen Graham FBA. is a British scholar of cities and urban life. Since 2010, he has been Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. A qualified urban planner, he has an interdisciplinary background in human geography, urbanism and the sociology of technology. A widely cited author in contemporary urban studies and related fields, Graham’s work explores how cities and urban life are being reshaped by increased movement and mobility, intensifying social inequalities, the widespread application of digital technology, and the widening insecurities that characterise urban life. His most recent work has sought to rethink cities and urban life in fully three-dimensional ways that help to understand their increased vertical reach.
Christina Anne Boswell is a political scholar. She is a Professor of Politics and Vice Principal for Research and Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh.
Rachel Harriet Pain is Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University since 2017 and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018.
Alasdair Douglas Pinkerton is a British Liberal Democrat politician and academic who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2024. He has been an associate professor in geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Basil Germond, SHFEA, FRGS, is a professor of international security at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and holds a visiting fellowship at the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.
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