Dr Romain Chenet
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Contact details |
| Email: Romain dot Chenet at warwick dot ac dot uk |
| Room: R3.16 (Ramphal Building) |
| See here on pronouncing my name / pronouns |
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Term-time* office hours: Click here to bookLink opens in a new window Administrative enquiries: UGGSD@warwick.ac.uk |
Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies (all GSD degrees).
- Equity Officer (School for Cross-Faculty Studies); Warwick University Chaplaincy Buddhist Faith Advisor; Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development - Steering Group Member; Warwick Gender Taskforce Member; WIHEA Fellow.
Background
My role involves teaching and management, with current responsibilities as GSD's Director of Undergraduate Studies and School Equity Officer. I was previously also the department's Senior Tutor, Director of Admissions, and Director of Student Experience (for Y1 students). My research background spans across development, sociology, and politics in exploring globality with poststructural analysis of discourse and other applied methods - galvanising my curiosity for the emerging field of global studies. I am completing additional postgraduate study myself, have diverse interests in adjacent scholarship, and welcome research enquiries on many topics - see examples further down on this page!
I was previously based in London and worked on global corporate relations and high-value fundraising management for large INGOs to build development projects and respond to humanitarian emergencies. Before settling in the UK, I often lived in Asia (Nepal, India, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia), shaping my experiences with development. My personal interests include cooking, gardening, Buddhist art and philosophy, and living with cats.
Taught modules
Undergraduate:
Sustainable Development: Past, Present, FuturesLink opens in a new window (Convening Lecturer)
Surviving the ApocalypseLink opens in a new window (Convening Lecturer)
Aid, Humanitarianism, Sustainable Development, and NGOsLink opens in a new window (Convening Lecturer)
Gender and the Sustainable Development AgendaLink opens in a new window (Convening Lecturer)
Postgraduate:
Leading Transformation in the AnthropoceneLink opens in a new window (Convening Lecturer)
Teaching and research interests
The evolution of ‘sustainable development’ as a mythology; Discursive intersections, silences, and exclusions in institutional policies and practices; Poststructural discourse analysis; Gender and development; Governance and power; NGOs and civil society; Culture(s) and lifeworlds; Buddhist cosmologies; Critical development approaches (post-development, feminisms, 'alternatives', degrowth, queer and trans* theory); Pluralism and decolonisation beyond buzzwords (via epistemology and ontology); The history, politics, and sociology of development as a global project.
Recent publications
Chenet, R. (2025). Inscribed capital, human bodies: Interpellating contemporary World Bank expressionsLink opens in a new window. In: Crisis and body politics in twenty-first century cultural production, (eds. Sinclair, M. and Spear, C.). New York: Routledge.
Chenet, R. (2024). Gendered visions beyond development’s impasses: reflections from a UK university classroom. Development in Practice, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2363931
Selected conference events
Panel organiser/presenter (with Dr M. Gavris): Renewals: exploring diverse meanings of ‘development’ in our shared polycrisis.
Panel organiser (with Dr E. Loveman): From oblivion to re-enchantment: Exploring and actualising diverse knowledges. Midlands Conference in Critical Thought 2025, University of Derby.
Paper: Building intersectional space(s) into ‘gender and development’ teaching.
Panel organiser (with Dr B. Brazeau): Apocalypse, crisis, and constructing our endings.
Midlands Conference in Critical Thought 2024, Nottingham Trent University.
Paper: Levering into fraught interdisciplinarity: A case study in teaching 'population(ism)'.
Innovative Development Practices and Pedagogies 2022, Indiana University.