Susan Baker (born 9 October 1955) is a

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in the School of Social Sciences and former co-director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. Her research concerns environmental governance in the European Union and

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, gender and the environment.

Biography

Baker was born in

Loughlinstown Loughlinstown () is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road. Loughlinstown is the location of St. Columcille's Hospital, which serves both south Dublin and Wicklow. The European Foundation for ...

, Ireland and moved to

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as a child. She studied philosophy and economics at

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) () is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork (city), Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...

. After completing an MA and working in the United States and

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, she won a government scholarship to study for a PhD in political science at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...

(EUI) in Florence. Baker completed her PhD thesis, on "Dependency, ideology and the industrial policy of Fianna Fail in Ireland, 1958–1972", in 1987, and it was examined by Philippe Schmitter,

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, Jean Blondel and James Wickam. She subsequently lectured at

Ulster University Ulster University (; Ulster Scots: or ), legally the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU. It i ...

in Belfast for six years, and then took up a post at

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

, before moving to Cardiff. In 200102, she held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre. Baker became the first woman to be appointed to a King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science in 2003, spending the 200304 academic year visiting

Umeå University Umeå University (; Ume Sami language, Ume Sami: ) is a public university, public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present bord ...

while she held the award. In January 2013, she was elected as a Fellow of the

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. Baker co-edited the book ''In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New Governance Practices at the Sub-national Level in Europe'' (Routledge, 2008) with Katarina Eckerberg, and is the author of ''Sustainable Development'', which is part of the Routledge Introductions to Environment Series and was published in its second edition in 2015. She delivered keynote lectures at the Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference in 1999 and 2007. Baker is married to Sean Loughlin, an Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University. The couple met while studying at the EUI and have a daughter.

References

External links

Cardiff University profile page
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