Professor Duncan Russel

Duncan Russel is an Professor in Environmental Policy. His research and teaching interests include:

• UK and European environmental policy
• climate policy
• public policy
• policy appraisal
• policy coordination
• evidence and policy interactions
• budgetary politics
• urban environmental goverance

Biography:

I trained as an interdisciplinary environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia (UEA). I then specialised in environmental politics at UEA through my PhD entitled “Environmental Policy Appraisal in UK Central Government: A political Analysis.” The thesis had an interdisciplinary approach drawing on perspectives from environmental science, economics, public administration and politics. I was a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research at UEA from Oct 2004 until Jan 2009. During this time I was awarded an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship to help me disseminate my work on policy appraisal, and I was a visiting fellow at the Free University of Amsterdam. I joined Exeter in February 2009 as a Lecturer under the Climate Change and Sustainable Futures strategy and have since progressed to full professor. I have held various leadership poistions including Head of the Politics Department and am currently the Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences. 

Research supervision:

UK and European Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Policy Appraisal, Policy Coordination, Evidence and Policy Interactions, Climate Change politics