Dr Heather Alberro
Transdisciplinary writer, researcher & educator specialising in the environmental social sciences and humanities
alberro90@gmail.com
@AlberroHeather
About
me
I’m a Latina academic (she/her) of Cuban-American background, born and raised in Miami. I’ve lived, studied and worked in the UK since 2014. I have a decade of experience researching and teaching in the higher education sector, and am currently a Lecturer in Sustainability at the University of Manchester
When I’m not researching, writing or teaching, I love spending time with my dearest, reading, traveling, watching films, running, and hiking. I’m also a huge fan of craft ales and pasta!
Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency...hope just means another world might be possible, not promised - ‘Hope in the Dark’, Rebecca Solnit
Research Interests
I’m an activist-academic and avid biophiliac who’s passionate about fostering transformative socio-ecological changes for more sustainable, equitable and caring worlds for all terrestrials.
My PhD thesis featured an eco-critical examination of radical environmental movements like Earth First!, Hambacher Forst, and Sea Shepherd, their tactics and ecological worldviews, and how these informed their visions for more socio-ecologically harmonious futures.
Key areas of research/interest include: green utopianism, critical post-human theory, decolonial and radical environmental politics, post-anthropocentric ethics and literary ecocriticism
Latest Publications
Professional Associations
Member of the UK Political Studies Association’s (PSA) executive committee
Co-convenor for the PSA’s ‘environmental politics’ specialist group
Member of the H.G Wells Society (UK)
Media & News Engagements
Frequent live interviews on NBC Euronews and the BBC
Interviews, writing for - The Guardian, The Conversation UK
Resources for keeping Hope Alive
