Recent and current projects:

Project Investigator, British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant 'SeaSights: Seaside towns and insights from young people’. 2023-24.

Project Investigator, The Leverhulme Trust research project grant 'Ocean Justice and the Blue Economy'. 2024-27.

Co-Investigator, AHRC BRAID-funded project ''Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics, and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue''. Project led by Dr Delphine Grass. 2026-27.

Overview:

With a background in International Relations, my research interests include global sustainable development, international marine policy and the blue economy, international climate politics, security and the environment, and indigenous peoples. 

My research appeared in Development and Change; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Marine Policy; Third World Quarterly; Sustainable Development; Science of the Total Environment, among others. I co-edited a special issue on the Blue Economy published in The Geographical Journal; an edited volume on Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions (Routledge, 2023); and I co-authored the “blue economy” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-AAG).

Member of the Office for Environmental Protection College of Experts.

Member of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, where I am leading the 'People and the Ocean' Hub.

Short clip "60 seconds with... Dr Celine Germond-Duret" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCs4fkIe1M

Podcast on the Blue Economy: The Blue Economy - Transforming Tomorrow - Podcast.co

Member of the organisation committee of the Litfest-Lancaster University Environmental Lecture series (link to the 2023 George Monbiot's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B021oNQ9F3Y ; link to the 2024 Caroline Lucas' lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQa3AD2PW4 ; link to the 2025 Bella Lack's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NgWcb915Ro)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Member of the FASS and LUMS Research Ethics Committee.

My research interests include the international relations of the environment, global development, and North-South relations. My specific expertise covers marine policy and blue economy, international climate politics and global inequalities, indigenous peoples, as well as discourse analysis. My approach is framed within deconstructive and postcolonial approaches.

I obtained my PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on international relations, development studies, continental philosophy, and human geography. My main focus is on the analysis of discourses and narratives surrounding development policies, international environmental protection and sustainability (including climate politics), as well as marine policy and the blue economy. My expertise spans across global, national and local scales.

My MA thesis examined the link between environmental migration and security. It critically assessed policy narratives and academic theories on the connection between the two and analysed migration and security data to establish the existence of any direct or indirect link, feeding into the debate on environmental security.

My PhD explored development narratives through a discourse analysis that revealed how traditional knowledge was systematically undermined and how development policies were underpinned by colonial thinking. It also scrutinised external interventions conducted on behalf of nature conservation. These are themes that I have kept exploring since. For instance, I have shown that the tradition/modernity dichotomy that is often used in the case of Indigenous peoples maintains harmful hierarchisations (rich/poor, advanced/backward etc.) and justifies neo-colonial interventions. My research on the marine environment has highlighted the need to decolonise knowledge and representations about the sea (moving away from Western and terra-centric visions that have represented the sea as placeless and further acknowledging and valuing non-Western, Indigenous and traditional representations and uses of the marine environment).

From a methodological perspective, I am proficient in quantitative and qualitative mixed methods. This includes surveys and interviews, discourse analysis, and qualitative and quantitative content analysis. I am also trained in PhotoVoice, a community based participatory research whereby participants document their own engagement and experience with the subject investigated.

Member of the Office for Environmental Protection College of Experts.

Editorial Board member for Ocean & Coastal Management (Elsevier).

External Examiner, BSc (Hons) Geography and BSc (Hons) Global Development and Sustainability, Bath Spa University, UK

External Examiner, MA Climate, Justice and Sustainability, University of Limerick, Ireland

Associate Researcher, Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l'Histoire du Temps Present, Geneva, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre du Bois - (fondation-pierredubois.ch)

The Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Grant for the project: "Ocean justice and the blue economy", 2024-27. 

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the project: "SeaSights: Deprived seaside towns and the blue economy - insights from young people", 2023-24.

FASS Policy Fund (research and research-related external engagement) for the project: "Representation of the sea and citizen engagement: Governmental bodies' communication strategy", 2023.

Manchester Geographical Society: "Sense of Place in Morecambe", 2022.

Please contact me to organise a face-to-face or MS Teams meeting.