Dr Maria Gavris
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Contact details |
| Email: Maria dot Gavris at warwick dot ac dot uk |
| Room: R3.15 (Ramphal Building) |
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Office hours: Term 1: 11-12 on Monday and 2-3 pm on Tuesday (both drop in; if you'd prefer a Teams meeting please send me an email in advance to arrange this) |
Assistant Professor
Biography
I am a political economist, with a particular interest in governance for sustainable development. I hold a Joint Honours undergraduate degree in Economics and Politics and a PhD in Economics (both from the University of Leeds). Prior to joining the School for Cross-Faculty Studies in September 2020, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick Business School. Before that, I was a Research Associate at the Centre for Decent Work at the University of Sheffield.
Teaching
Currently, I convene the following modules:
GD104 Economic Principles of Global Sustainable Development
GD216: Good Governance and Sustainable Development
GD326: Limits and Sustainable Development
GD914 Critical Perspectives on Business and Sustainable DevelopmentLink opens in a new window
Previously, I have also taught on:
GD306: Achieving Sustainability: Potentials and Barriers and its WIISP variant
I have also delivered guest lectures on:
GD217 Migration and Sustainable Development
GD317 Managing Natural Resources
I was nominated for the Warwick Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE) in 2021 and 2023, and for the WATE Faculty Award in 2023. I am also a Fellow of the HEA.
Research
My main research interests are in: good governance as a necessary pillar of sustainable development; the concept of limits to development; degrowth; and capitalism’s multiple and interconnected crises.
I am currently working on a co-edited book exploring the meaning of ‘good governance’ in the context of sustainable development from a critical, interdisciplinary angle. In a separate project, I am looking at the evolution of the debate on ecological limits to development throughout history and what this implies for development policy today. I have begun to explore what a degrowth transition would involve in practical terms in a co-authored article, published in New Political Economy. Finally, I am also interested in the notion that we are in a global polycrisis, and in how the polycrisis has been interpreted across different political economy traditions (ecological Marxism, feminism, Keynesianism, and institutionalism).
Previously, I have also researched labour governance and decent work as a UN sustainable development goal, as well as theories of hegemony and power.
Recent publications
Journal articles
- Davidson, J. P.L. and Gavris, M. (2024) ‘Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in’. New Political Economy, online before print: https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2024.2389506
- Dymski, G., Gavris, M. and Huaccha, G. (2023), ‘Viewing the impact of Brexit on Britain’s financial centre through an historical lens: Can there be a third reinvention of the City of London?’. Advances in Economic Geography, 67(2-3), pp 76-91.
- Gavris, M. (2021), ‘Revisiting the fallacies in Hegemonic Stability Theory in light of the 2007-2008 crisis: the theory’s hollow conceptualization of hegemony’. Review of International Political Economy, vol. 28(3), pp. 739-60.
- Gavris, M. and Heyes, J. (2021), 'Varieties of labour administration in Europe and the consequences of the Great Recession’. Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 42(4), pp. 1282-1304.
- Bailey, D., Coffey, D., Gavris, M., Thornley, C. (2019) ‘Industrial policy, place and democracy’. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 12(3), pp. 327-45.
Book chapters
- Heyes, J., Rychly, L., Gavris, M., and Luz Vega, M. (2021) Introduction to The Governance of Labour Administration, in Heyes, J. and L. Rychly (eds.), The Governance of Labour Administration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar and Geneva: ILO
Podcasts
- WICID Methods Lab Podcast: Policy AnalysisLink opens in a new window (with Romain Chenet and Marco Haenssgen).