Romain Chenet
Contact details |
| Email: Romain dot Chenet at warwick dot ac dot uk |
| Tel.: +44 (0) 24765 75979 |
| Room: R3.32 (Ramphal Building) |
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Senior Teaching Fellow
- Director of Student Experience for first-year students
- Director of Undergraduate Studies for first-year students
- Senior Tutor (staff-facing only)
- Adjustments & Disability Officer (all GSD students, UG & PG)
- Director of Admissions, Mentoring Lead, Safeguarding Lead
Background
I joined the Global Sustainable Development team in February 2021, having taught part-time in the department from 2018 to 2020. My current role in GSD is split between teaching and administrative management. I hold an MA in Social Research, MA in International Politics, BA in Politics and Sociology, and my doctoral research is on the transformative capacity of post-2015 development policies. Briefly, this project spans development, sociology, and politics in exploring supranational governance through poststructural discourse analysis with a feminist intentionality.
I was previously based in London, working in corporate relations and high-value fundraising management roles for INGOs including UNICEF and the Red Cross to incept and fund long-term development projects, and to respond to humanitarian emergencies with implementation partners such as the Disasters Emergency Committee. Prior to settling in the UK, I lived in Asia (Nepal, India, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia), fostering my interests in development theory and practice. I am a keen writer and my interests include French/Thai cuisine, gardening, Buddhist philosophy, and spending time with my cats.
2021-2022 Modules
Undergraduate:
GD106: Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development (Convening Lecturer).
GD302: Surviving the Apocalypse (Convening Lecturer).
GD309: Debt, Money, and Global Sustainable Development (Seminar Tutor).
Global Sustainable Development Principles and Praxis (Convening Lecturer).
Certificate of Digital Literacy (Convening Lecturer).
Postgraduate:
GD909: Global Challenges and Transdisciplinary Responses (Contributing Lecturer).
GD912: Popular Movements and Sustainable Change (Convening Lecturer).
Teaching and research interests
The post-2015 ‘sustainable development’ era; Intersections of economic, social, and environmental development policy (growth, poverty, inequality, and sustainability); Poststructural discourse analysis; Gender and development; Climate and sustainability governance; NGOs, activism and civil society; Critical approaches (post-development, feminist, alternatives to development, degrowth / Buddhist economics); Epistemological pluralism and decolonisation beyond metaphors and buzzwords; The history, politics, and sociology of development as a global project.
Selected conference papers
Innovative Practices and Pedagogies for International Development Studies 2022, Indiana University, and
Mapping Interdisciplinarity 2022: Finding Our Way, University of Birmingham.
Paper: Levering into fraught interdisciplinarity: A case study in teaching 'population'.
Paper: ‘Firmly in Britain's own national interest': DfID's dying development. Panel: Foreign Aid.
International Development 2019 Conference, IDS, University of Sussex.
Paper: Bilateral aid donors and discontents. Panel: Problematising Aid & Partnerships in Development.
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender 2018 Symposium, University of Warwick.
Panel Discussant: Feminism in/against Neoliberalism in International Development & Social Movements.
Selected publications
Chenet, R. (2020). Pursuing post-structuralism without linguistics. The Sociological Review Online.