Dr Nick Kirsop-Taylor

My career has focused on working in the field of environment and climate governance in the public, voluntary and now higher education sectors.

I am an environmental governance scholar and political ecologist with a particular research interests in how the state and bureaucracy contribute towards and participate in environmental governance; and in particular, contestation and conflict in environmental governance. I co-authored the (2022) Edward Elgar Handbook of the Governance of Sustainable Development and am currently writing my first monograph – Governance in the age of Nature Restoration (Amsterdam University Press – due 2026). 

`I am deeply engaged with sustainability and governance facing projects and roles for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Exeter, for example, I was the founding Director of the Systems Thinking Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship at Exeter, served as Deputy-Director of Policy@Exeter, and am currently the Chair of Sustainability for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (2023-2026). 

I am open to approaches from potential PhD students on subjects related to my research agenda. In particular, doctoral research situated within public policy and administration theory in addressing environmental and climate challenges/questions.