Susan Baker is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and co-director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University.[1] Her research concerns environmental governance in the European Union and ecofeminism, gender and the environment.[2]
Baker was born in Loughlinstown, Ireland and moved to Cork as a child. She studied philosophy and economics at University College Cork. After completing an MA and working in the United States and Galway, she won a government scholarship to study for a PhD in political science at the European University Institute in Florence. She subsequently lectured at Ulster University in Belfast for six years, and then took up a post at Erasmus University Rotterdam, before moving to Cardiff.[3]
In January 2013, Baker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.[4][5] Baker became the first woman to be appointed to a King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science in 2003, spending a year visiting Umeå University while she held the award.[3]
References
- ^ "New Book from Sustainable Places Co-director Susan Baker". Cardiff University. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Professor Susan Baker: Research". Cardiff University. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Taking her palce at the Swedish Royal Court". Irish Times. 27 March 2003. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "International honour for advancing environmental social science research". Cardiff University. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "KSLA välkomnar nya ledamöter i Allmänna avdelningen". Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2017.