Dr Nicholas Beuret
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873080
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Location
EBS.3.126C, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911
Profile
Biography
Before joining the Essex Business School Nicholas worked as a research associate at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, where we worked on critical approaches to climate migration, and a pre-doctoral fellow at Hobart & William Smith Colleges (USA) where he undertook research on the politics of the Anthropocene. Prior to undertaking his PhD at the School of Management, University of Leicester, Nicholas worked for two decades ina range of sectors including the Non-Governmental Organisation sector on environmental issues, Event management and in the online communications industry.
Qualifications
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BA (University of Newcastle, Australia)
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PhD (University of Leicester, UK)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Science and Technology Studies (particularly around environmental issues)
Environmental politics and contemporary issues in sustainability
Catastrophe, crisis and disaster
Alternative Organisations
Infrastructure and logistics
Political Economy of Organisation
Philosophy and Political Economy
Affect and the imaginary
Social movements
Automation and platform capitalism
Current research
contemporary catastrophic environmental issues through the intersection of science and technology studies, human geography and organization studies
environmental politics of climate change and resource use, emerging energy infrastructure, the commons, extinction and the catastrophic imaginary
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Introduction to Management and Marketing (BE400)
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Operations and Supply Chain Management (BE411)
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In-Site Workshop Series (BE961)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (3)
Beuret, N., (2017). Counting Carbon: Calculative Activism and Slippery Infrastructure. Antipode. 49 (5), 1164-1185
Kanngieser, A. and Beuret, N., (2017). Refusing the World: Silence, Commoning, and the Anthropocene. South Atlantic Quarterly. 116 (2), 363-380
Beuret, N. and Brown, G., (2017). The Walking Dead : The Anthropocene as a Ruined Earth. Science as Culture. 26 (3), 330-354
Contact
Academic support hours:
You can find details of Academic Support hours on the EBS UG and PG information page on Moodle or by calling EBS Student Services on 01206873911