Eric Hoddy
Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Eric is a social scientist with research interests in climate and development, human rights and social movements, human rights leadership, and transitional and transformative justice. His most recent research focuses on climate adaptation and legal consciousness in urban informal settlements, and transformative justice in transitional and post-conflict settings.
Eric has held research positions with Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (Sweden), the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at The University of Sheffield (UK), and the WorldFish research centre (Malaysia).
Eric serves as the Risk and Ethics Officer for the Department of Politics and IR. Eric is happy to consider supervision of PhD projects related to:
- Sustainable development and human rights
- Climate, environment and activism
- Social movements
- Transitional justice
Research
Overview
Recent funded research: TRANSIST is a joint interdisciplinary project between Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and the University of York (Stockholm Environment Institute and York Law School), ‘From everyday forms of resistance to transformational climate change adaptation of the urban poor’, funded by the Vetenskapsrådent VR (Sweden). The research, undertaken in Maputo, Mozambique, investigates relationships between everyday risk perceptions, resilience and everyday legal cultures, and their influence on the potential for transformational change.
Previous funded research includes an ESRC fellowship on ‘Developing the research and practice agenda on transformative justice’, which focused on the needs and priorities of a community of poor farmers in Tunisia in the context of democratic transition.
Current pump priming project funded by CAHR’s Generating Respect Hub: Transitional Justice in the Anthropocene.
Publications
Selected publications
A socio-legal perspective on land market informality and accountability in urban land governance, 2025. World Development. With Simon Halliday, Jon Ensor, Amelia Macome, Christine Wamsler, Emily Boyd.
Adverse Incorporation and Local Economies of Peace, 2025. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Human Rights Leadership: An Action Research Project, 2024. UNESCO HRD Hub working paper no.3, University of York.
Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research, 2024. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. With Simon Halliday, Jon Ensor, Amelia Macome, Christine Wamsler, Emily Boyd.
Human rights leadership in challenging times: an agenda for research and practice, 2023. The International Journal of Human Rights. With John Gray.
Safeguarding the land to secure food in the highlands of Peru: The case of Andean peasant producers, 2022. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. With Silvia Sarapura Escobar.
Teaching
Postgraduate
- Applying Human Rights
- Green Politics
- Project Placement (South Africa placement co-lead)
External activities
Overview
- Peer Review College member, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Member of the Advisory Committee to the UNESCO Chair in Sport for Development, Peace and the Environment (SDPE)
- Editorial Board member, International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
