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.

• From everyday forms of resistance to transformational climate change adaptation of the urban poor
• Developing the research and practice agenda on transformative justice
• Transitional Justice in the Anthropocene

Publications

Selected publications

Halliday, S., Hoddy, E., Ensor, J., Macome, A., Wamsler, C. and Boyd, E. (Forthcoming, 2024). How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique. Social and Legal Studies.

Hoddy, E. et al. (2024). Human Rights Leadership: An Action Research Project. UNESCO HRD Hub working paper no.3, University of York. 

Hoddy, E., Halliday, S., Ensor, J., Wamsler, C. and Boyd, E. (2023). Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 14(3).

Sarapura–Escobar, S. and Hoddy, E.T., (2023). Safeguarding the land to secure food in the highlands of Peru: The case of Andean peasant producers. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6.

Danton, J.A.G., Hoddy, E. and McGill, D. (eds). (2023). Justicia transformativa y conflicto agrario. Elementos para un debate necesario [Transformative Justice and Agrarian Conflict: Elements for a Necessary Debate]. Santo Tomas University Press.

Hoddy, E. and Gray, J., (2022). Human rights leadership in challenging times: an agenda for research and practice. The International Journal of Human Rights, 27(4).

Hoddy, E., (2021). Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings: From transitional justice to transformative agrarian justice. Journal of Human Rights, 20(1), pp.91-109.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Applying Human Rights
• Transitional Justice and Human Rights
• 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.