📢 Welcome to Dr Ahmad Umar, who joins the Department for two years as a Marie Sklodwoska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. An expert in Asian regionalism, Indonesian foreign policy and Indo-Pacific security, he will be working on a project titled "Transregionalism in World Politics".

Bala and I are in the office this morning, as new module requires a little extra prep. But I love how teaching #climate politics makes me think everything a bit more deeply - to present students a world and forms of #politics that gives them a place to make their own

It's out in print! I'm waiting to receive my copies and then I promise a photo 😀📸

I was delighted to be invited to speak to University of Bristol Biological Sciences earlier this week, where I made the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency. I've decided to post my slides, so buckle up this is going to be a long thread🧵1/n

Look what arrived in the post yesterday! I had to take a photo in front of the building where the journey first began InterPol Aberystywth University 🙂 cambridge.org/core/books/ipc…

I think this time around the resistance will be local. We’ll march and protest, but even more important, we’ll get to work protecting our neighbors and working together to keep making progress on the issues that matter most. Here’s what we can do on climate 🧵

My article on Myanmar’s Spring Revolution in EJIR (European Journal of International Relations). In brief: 1. The revolution represents a particular moment of a more universal human struggle for liberation and is of world-historical significance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social on her newly published book, which grew out of her PhD research here in Aber! 📚 🌍

Call for papers for #BISA2025. For particular attention of climate researchers, but open to all, if these questions resonate. I'm organising a panel with John Barry on the role of research in a world of multiple crises. Please email me an abstract!

Yesterday we welcomed Jess McQuade from WWF Cymru 🌏 into our InterPol Aberystywth University #climate #politics workshop to examine the different NGO strategies used to shape action at local, national & international levels. The wealth of Jess' experience & activism was inspiring to us all 😍

Last week our colleague Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social was at COP29 in Azerbaijan with her collaborator Veronica Korber Gonçalves (University of Brasilia). They are working on a British Academy project Centring Climate Agreement-Making in the Amazon. 1/2

✍️ Writing for The Conversation from the COP29 climate summit, Dr Hannah Hughes, Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Climate Change, discusses Trump's influence on climate politics. 🖱️ bit.ly/3OgPu68 Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social InterPol Aberystywth University #COP29Baku #COP29

Read our colleague Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social's latest piece to get insights into the implications of a second Trump presidency on international efforts to tackle the climate crisis. 🌎

US politics long shaped global climate action and science – will Trump’s opposition matter? Donald Trump is famously against the very idea of climate change and measures to fight it. What might another Trump presidency mean for the world? ✍️ Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social bylines.cymru/environment/cl…

Read my The Conversation piece in BylinesCymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 reflecting from #cop29 on how #US domestic politics has historically shaped #climate science in #IPCC and collective negotiation in #UNFCCC

I was on BBC News (UK) talking about the impact of #StormBert on my local community in South #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 "It's so important that not only do we phase out fossil fuels, we must actually also massively now invest in climate adaptation... we need to see that from the government right now"

. US politics has long shaped global #climateaction and science – how much will Trump’s opposition matter? theconversation.com/us-politics-ha… via @conversationUk Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social

This new article in International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social is very timely with all the discussion around #UNFCCC, #COP and #climate negotiations - it looks at how and when the process can lead to changes in strategy through the #EU and the establishment of the loss and damage fund