Our people

Welcome to the Global Sustainable Development Department at Warwick. You can find all the details of our teaching, administrative, and support staff here. The Department is based in the Ramphal Building on central campus. Our main office is in R3.23. For general enquiries, please contact globalsustainabledev at warwick dot ac dot uk.

Head of School for Cross-faculty Studies and Academic Director for Global Sustainable Development
Associate Professor, HEA Senior Fellow, Co-director of the Oral History Network at Warwick
Email: S dot Panichelli at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.17A (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Thursday 10am-11pm or by appointment
Research interests: Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies (Oral History, Sociology, Cultural Studies), Humanitarian Aid and South-South Cooperation.

Dr Nicholas Bernards

Assistant Professor
Email: N dot Bernards at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.19 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Term 3: Monday-Friday by appointment.
Research interests: Labour, finance, social protection, political economy, global governance, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Romain Chenet

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: Romain dot Chenet at warwick dot ac dot uk
Office hours: TBC

Dr Jonathan Clarke

Senior Teaching Fellow
Email: J dot R dot L dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.11 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Monday 11am-12pm and Thursday 1-2pm.

Research interests: Sustainable cities, design, governance, water and future societies.

Dr Peter Dwyer

Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience

Email: Peter dot Dwyer at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.16 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: GSD Virtual common room 1-1:30pm every day, or by appointment
Research interests: Popular movements responses to social, political and environmental change in Africa, new movements and climate justice.

Dr Maria Gavris

Senior Teaching Fellow
Email: Maria dot Gavris at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.14 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: TBC
Research interests: political economy; good governance as a pillar of sustainable development; macroeconomics and development; labour governance and decent work.

Dr Marta Guerriero

Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Global Sustainable Development)
Email: M dot Guerriero at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.36 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: TBC.
Research interests: Environment, development and labour economics; Social justice, governance and policy evaluation.

Dr Marco Haenssgen

Assistant Professor

Email: Marco dot Haenssgen at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: R3.18 (Ramphal Building)

Office hours: Wednesday 1.00pm-2.00pm - Teams video call by appointment and Thursday 1.00pm-2.00pm - Teams chat drop-in.

Research interests: Human behaviours, marginalisation and rural livelihoods, social and technological change, policy implementation and evaluation, global health and health systems, social protections, Asia.

Dr Gioia Panzarella

Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience

Email: Gioia dot Panzarella at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: R3.33 (Ramphal Building)

Office hours: GSD Virtual common room 1-1:30pm every day, or by appointment

Research interests: Multilingualism, migration, and mobility.

Dr Mandy Sadan

Associate Professor and Academic Director of Distance Learning Postgraduate Programmes
Email Mandy dot Sadan at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.14 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: TBC
Research interests: Humanities and the arts in sustainable development; life stories and oral history; culture and heritage; gendered economies; visual and material anthropology and museums; conflict and community responses to peacebuilding; environment and extractive industries; young people and well-being especially in drug-affected communities; borderlands and state-building; ethnic and religious conflict in southeast Asia; post-compulsory education in politically marginalized communities.

Dr Jess Savage

Senior Teaching Fellow
Email J dot Savage dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.13 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Tuesday 10am-11am
Research interests: Marine ecology; habitat conservation, monitoring, and management in resource-dependent communities.

Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins

Assistant Professor
Email: L dot Sealey-Huggins at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.29 (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Term 3; Tuesday 2.00pm-3.00pm.
Research interests: Sociology of climate change in the Caribbean; conditions of contemporary higher education; explorations in activist-scholarship; impacts of neoliberalism on contemporary societies.

Dr Alastair Smith

Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Graduate Studies (Global Sustainable Development)
Email: A dot Smith dot 21 at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: R3.30. (Ramphal Building)
Office hours: Term 3: Monday-Friday by appointment.
Research interests: International trade and trade justice, governance for sustainable development; food security and food sovereignty; the informal economy; Latin American drug markets; drug policy and development practices; local sustainable development.