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Dr Duncan Weaver

Course Leader MA International Relations and Course Leader Criminology

Phone
+44 (0)1473 338945
Email
d.weaver@uos.ac.uk
School/Directorate
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Duncan Weaver approaches teaching and research from a critical criminological and political position. He is interested in the bridging points between critical criminological theory and critical geopolitical and security theory. He was previously Senior Instructor (ARU), Lecturer (City College Norwich) and Graduate Teaching Assistant (Keele). Duncan holds a BA and PhD in International Relations and Politics (Keele) plus a Security MScEcon (Aberystwyth). He also completed two years' teacher training (Suffolk New College). PhD applicants with interests in the policy issues and theoretical interventions evident in his publications are encouraged to make contact. 

Duncan has successfully designed, mobilised and delivered a number of security-related degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His most recent project related to the construction and mobilisation of Suffolk's MA International Relations. He was also involved with professional police education, contributing to the mobilisation and delivery of Police Constable Degree Apprenticeships and Degree Holder Entry Programmes (ARU) and Professional Policing programmes (CCN). Duncan holds course leadership in MA International Relations and undergraduate Criminology. He also leads a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Publications:

Weaver, D. (2026, under contract) Public Participation and National Security. Palgrave.

Weaver, D. (2024) 'Extinction Rebellion: Greening Vanguardism?', Social Movement Studies, 23(1), 113-121. 

Weaver, D. (2023) The Aarhus Convention: Towards Environmental Solidarisation. Palgrave.

Weaver, D. (2022) 'Project Kraken: surveillance and liminality 'on the edge' of land and water', Geopolitics, 27(1), 333-359.

Weaver, D. (2020) 'Wakhan: concomitance of the local and international in marginal boundaries', Geopolitics, 25(5), 1168-1198.

Weaver, D. (2020) 'Spatiality and world politics' in N. Sandal (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of International Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-37. 

Weaver, D. (2020) 'William of Rubruck: cosmopolitan curiosity and restraint in an age of conquest and mission', Comparative Civilizations Review, 83, 44-66.

Weaver, D. (2018) 'The Aarhus Convention and process cosmopolitanism', International Environmental Agreements, 18(2), 199-213.

Invited popular items:

Weaver, D. (2020) 'Project Kraken at 13', Safe Seas: Research Network for Maritime Security and Ocean Governance.

Conference papers:

'Ecofascism in contemporary Europe', Tragedy of the Greens Workshop, Central European University Vienna, 2025.

'Artificial intelligence and UK freedom of information law', with Dr Sean Whittaker, Centre for Freedom of Information Annual Conference, Dundee, 2024.

'Ecofascism old and new', with Professor Nigel South, British Society of Criminology Conference, Strathclyde, 2024.
'Aarhus Convention Articles 4 and 5, and Artificial Intelligence', with Dr Sean Whittaker, Dundee, 2024.
'Aarhus Convention Article 3.7 and Arctic International Forums', Critical Arctic Studies Symposium, Lapland, 2023.
'Environmental solidarisation: lessons from the Aarhus Convention', EISA Pan European Conference, Potsdam, 2023.
'Designing out injustice: lessons from the Aarhus Convention', Together for Transformation, Suffolk, 2023.
'William of Rubruck', British International Studies Association early career conference, Portsmouth, 2019.
'Greening Realism', Royal Society of Edinburgh realism workshop, Edinburgh, 2013.
'Global Ontologies', Aberystwyth-Lancaster Colloquium, Keele, 2013.
'Critical National Infrastructure Protection', Theoretical Currents II, Lincoln, 2012.

In recent years, Duncan has provided training to Freedom of Information professionals on the implications of artificial intelligence for UK FOI law; he has delivered training to Crown Prosecution Service staff on risk horizon scanning; and he was invited to attend a multi-stakeholder planning conference ahead of UK maritime security reform. Duncan speaks occasionally to local media about issues of security interest.