Academic Staff: Hayley Stevenson
Dr Hayley Stevenson, BA(Hons) (Flinders), PhD (Adelaide)
Lecturer
Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1664
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: G58
Email: h.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk
Profile
Hayley Stevenson graduated from Flinders University of South Australia with First Class Honours in International Relations and Spanish. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2009. Her doctoral research was an analysis of the diffusion of international climate governance norms, and included case studies on Australia, India, and Spain. This analysis revealed a paradox in global climate governance: successful global action to avoid climate change depends on states complying with international agreements, but the present system induces states to comply with global norms in ways that actually exacerbate unsustainable development. In 2012, this research will be published in a book titled ‘Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance’ (University of California Press). After completing her doctorate, she spent three years at the Australian National University as a postdoctoral fellow. At the ANU, Dr Stevenson worked with Professor John S. Dryzek on a project entitled ‘Deliberative Global Governance of Climate Change’. The project addresses the concern that global climate change itself, as well as the institutions and policies designed to address climate change, will affect people’s lives around the world, although unevenly. It is therefore important that affected people are appropriately represented in decision-making processes, and that institutions are responsive to their needs and concerns. Dr Stevenson and Professor Dryzek are now co-authoring a book based on this research.
In January 2012, Dr Stevenson joined the Politics Department at Sheffield as a Lecturer in International Relations and Security.
Hayley Stevenson’s principal research interests include: global environmental politics and climate change, constructivist theory of International Relations, norms and foreign policy, global civil society, and deliberation in global governance.
Teaching
- POL114 Introduction to Security Studies
- POL6170 Global Governance
- POL6760 Global Politics of the Environment and Climate Change
Dr Stevenson’s keen interest in the theory and practice of international relations is strongly reflected in her teaching. Her modules are designed to give students a firm grounding in the traditional approaches to understanding international politics while also introducing alternative approaches to develop their critical thinking skills and provide new ways of understanding. She is currently teaching an introductory module on security studies, in which students study traditional (state/military-centric) and non-traditional (human/non-military) security agendas while examining issues such as alliances, the Cold War, the institutions underpinning security (e.g., the United Nations Security Council), and a range of contemporary security challenges (e.g., humanitarian intervention, terrorism, health and poverty, and environmental security).
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Dr Stevenson also teaches a module at MA level on global environmental politics and climate change. In this module students have the opportunity to develop an advanced understanding of contemporary global environmental challenges (including climate change, deforestation, water, consumption, and waste), while examining the various ways in which the international community has sought to address such problems. This module is informed by Dr Stevenson’s own research; it covers: theoretical approaches to the study of global environmental politics; competing accounts of the causes of environmental problems; the institutional and normative foundations of global environmental governance; the process of negotiating and implementing multilateral environmental agreements; and perspectives on environmental justice. |
Dr Hayley Stevenson, University of Sheffield: 'Fixing Climate Change: Who Decides?' More Politics Brought to Life videos |
Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures
- Lund Conference on Earth System Governance: Towards Just and Legitimate Earth System Governance – Addressing Inequalities, April 2012, Lund, Sweden. Invited semi-plenary speaker: ‘Citizen-centred accountability in global climate governance’.
Current Research
I am currently working on a book manuscript titled Democratizing Global Climate Governance. This is co-authored with John S. Dryzek and is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
I am also planning a new research project called 'Innovations in International Environmental Policy: A study of international organisations and policy change'. Despite more than two decades of sustainable development policy, most indicators of environmental quality continue to decline. The purpose of this project is to understand how international sustainability policies are changing in response to these conditions. With the aim of reconciling economic development and environmental sustainability, some policy actors have adopted new concepts and strategies such as ‘green growth’ and ‘green economy’. But there are other competing and overlapping understandings of the environment-economy nexus captured in such terms as inclusive wealth, de-growth, steady-state economy, and buen vivir. This project will assess innovations in international environmental policy in terms of (a) how they are informed by these multiple understandings, and (b) the degree to which these innovations have brought policy into line with the conditions necessary to prevent further environmental degradation. International organisations (IOs) frequently take a leadership role in advancing new sustainability concepts and strategies; therefore, these organisations are the focus of this study.
Key Publications
Books
- Hayley Stevenson, Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance. University of California Press (forthcoming 2012).
Journal Articles
- Hayley Stevenson. (Forthcoming). Governing Climate Technologies: Is there room for democracy? Environmental Values.
- Hayley Stevenson and John S. Dryzek. 2012. The Discursive Democratization of Global Climate Governance. Environmental Politics 21(2).
- Hayley Stevenson and John S. Dryzek. 2012. ‘Enhancing the legitimacy of multilateral climate governance: a deliberative democratic approach’. Critical Policy Studies 6(1).
- John S. Dryzek and Hayley Stevenson. 2011. ‘Global Democracy and Earth System Governance’. Ecological Economics 70: 1865–1874.
- Hayley Stevenson. 2011. ‘India and international norms of climate governance: a constructivist analysis of normative congruence building’. Review of International Studies 37: 997-1019.
- Hayley Stevenson. 2009. ‘Cheating on climate change? Australia's challenge to global warming norms’, Australian Journal of International Affairs 63(2): 165-186.
View Dr Stevenson's full list of publications.
PhD Supervision
Dr Stevenson is interested in supervising highly-motivated students on a range of International Relations topics, particularly: global environmental politics; global governance; global civil society; human and non-traditional security.