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Name
Dr Clare Newstead
School
School of Arts and Humanities
Staff group(s)
History, Languages and International Studies
Telephone
+44 (0)115 848 3105
Fax
+44 (0)115 848 6385
Address
School of Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton campus
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire

Job title

Programme Leader for International Studies and in LIS

Job responsibilities

Clare Newstead teaches across the undergraduate programme in Human Geography and contributes to post-graduate courses in Culture, Communication and Media, and International Relations. Her interests include: globalisation, development, cultural studies, post-colonial and feminist theory, and the Caribbean. She is also Research Leader for the Geography team.

Publications

Dr Clare Newstead

Research Centre or Group

  • Geography
  • Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Research, scholarly and professional interests

  • Regionalism, neoliberalism and governmentality
  • Post-coloniality and Caribbean nationalism
  • Geography, literature and learning to relate across distance

Current projects

  • 2005-2007 HEFCE Promising New Researcher Fellowship, Nottingham Trent University Race, Regionalism and the Slippery Geographies of Oppositional Politics in the Caribbean, £25,000
  • 2005 British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant A post-colonial geography of economic geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver
  • 2002 Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington DC, Regional economic integration and new spaces of democracy in the Caribbean, US$9, 500
  • 2001 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Award, Regional economic integration and the changing spaces of politics in the Caribbean, US$9, 900

External academic and professional activity

  • Society for Caribbean Studies, Organising Committee
  • Book review editor, H-Caribbean
  • Eric Williams Memorial Collection, University of the West Indies

Information for prospective research students

Clare welcomes students interested in the following areas of research

  • Neo-liberalism and governmentality, particularly in the Global South
  • Post-colonial regionalism
  • The Caribbean
  • Politics of resistance to neo-liberalism
  • Critical Development Studies

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