Directorate
The Institute is led by four Directors drawn from the three academic faculties at Durham, and aided by an administrator and secretary. Two additional staff support the Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (Cofund) scheme.
The Directorate is supported by a distinguished Advisory Council which meets once a year.
Professor Veronica Strang Executive Director
Veronica Strang is an environmental anthropologist. She trained at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and has previously held positions at the universities of Oxford, Wales, Goldsmiths and Auckland. Having been a Fellow at the IAS in 2009, she took up her current post in Durham in May 2012. Her research focuses on human environmental relations and began with input into The Brundtland Report. For the last twenty five years she has focused in particular on societies’ engagements with water. In 2000 she was awarded a Royal Anthropological Institute Fellowship and in 2007 a UNESCO International Water Prize. Her books include Uncommon Ground: cultural landscapes and environmental values (1997); The Meaning of Water (2004); Gardening the World: agency, identity and the ownership of water (2009) and Ownership and Appropriation (2010).
Professor Robert Barton Director
Robert Barton is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, founder of Durham’s Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, and has been President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association. He studied Psychology and Zoology at Bristol University and is interested in research at the intersection of evolutionary biology, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. His PhD was on the behaviour of wild baboons, but these days he works mainly on the evolutionary biology of the brain. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College Oxford in 2011, participating in an international interdisciplinary project on human cognitive evolution, and has recently held a Leverhulme Fellowship to write a book on Rethinking the Brain: an evolutionary approach.
Professor Barbara Graziosi Director
Barbara Graziosi has been Professor of Classics at Durham since 2010. She was educated in Trieste (Italy), Oxford and Cambridge, was appointed Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, in 1999, and held a summer fellowship at the Center of Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, in 2005. She recently published a history of the Olympian gods, and is directing a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on biographies and portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets.
Professor Martin Ward Director
Martin Ward is currently the Head of the Department of Physics, and also holds the Temple Chevallier Chair of Astronomy. He has previously held positions at Cambridge, Oxford and Leicester, before coming to Durham in 2004. He is an observational astrophysicist whose research interests include black holes and quasars. He was a consultant for the European Space Agency and is involved in the next generation Hubble Telescope project. He is interested in science public outreach, and has been a guest on Patrick Moore’s The Sky at Night and Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time.
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