Klaus Dodds

Klaus Dodds is Executive Dean of School of Life Sciences and Environment and Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Hon Fellow of British Antarctic Survey. He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 1994, and thereafter took up a position at the University of Edinburgh. He has held a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury (2002) and been a visiting Fellow at St Cross College, University of Oxford (2010-11) and St Johns College, University of Oxford (2017-18). In 2005 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography and in 2016 was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) for a project concerned with the ‘Global Arctic’.

He has served as a specialist adviser to two parliamentary select committees; the House of Lords Select Committee on the Arctic (2014-5) and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee’s Arctic enquiry (2018). He has visited Antarctica on five separate occasions and travelled extensively in the Arctic region. His books include a co-edited collection called Ice Humanities (Manchester University Press 2022) and co-edited Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica (Edward Elgar 2017).