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 its institutions, deliver environmental governance. In particular, the national mission of nature restoration. I co-authored the (2022) Edward Elgar Handbook of the Governance of Sustainable Development and the recently published the first part in a two-part series: Governing the Nature Restoration State (Routledge, 2026). The second volume, 'The Politics of the Nature Restoration State', is due in 2028. 

`I am deeply engaged with sustainability and governance-facing projects and roles for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Exeter. I was the founding Director of the Systems Thinking Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship at Exeter, served as Deputy-Director of Policy@Exeter, and was 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; and p[articularly any interested in research in and around my propisition of the Nature Restoration State.