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Ross Beveridge
Ross Beveridge
Current Position
Urban Studies Foundation Senior Research Fellow
Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
UK
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7660
Email: [email protected]
Qualifications
10/200610/2010
Newcastle University (GB), School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
PhD.
10/200010/2001
Newcastle University (GB), School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
MA International Studies
07/199910/1995
Manchester University (GB),
BA (Hons) History
Previous Employment
From
11/2010
Research Fellow/ Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter
11/200210/2005
Department of Institutional Change and
Regional Public Goods, Leibniz Institute
for Regional Development and Structural
Planning (IRS)
Leibniz Institute for Regional
Development and Structural Planning
(IRS)
Global Urban and Regional Research Unit
(GURU), Newcastle University
12/200110/2002
School of Geography, Politics and
Sociology, Newcastle University
Research Assistant
11/200502/2006
Researcher / Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter (short-term contract)
Research Associate
Publications
Book
Beveridge, R. (2012) A Politics of Inevitability: the Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global
City Discourse and Governance in 1990s Berlin (Wiesbaden: VS Springer).
Refereed Journal Articles
Beveridge, R. & Koch, P. (accepted for publication in 2016) “The Post-political Trap: reflections
on politics, agency and the city”, Urban Studies (lead article in symposium on the “Post-political
City”)
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Beveridge, R. (accepted for publication) “The (Ontological) Politics in Depoliticisation Debates:
Three Lenses on the Decline of the Political”, Political Studies Review
Becker, S., Beveridge, R. & Naumann, M. (2015) “Remunicipalisation in German cities:
contesting neo-liberalism and re-imagining urban governance?”, Space and Polity, Vol. 19, No.1,
76-90.
Beveridge, R., Hüesker, F. & Naumann, M (2014) “From post-politics to a politics of possibility?
Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company”, Geoforum 51, No. 1, S. 66–74.
Beveridge, R. & Naumann, M. (2014) “Global norms, local contestation: Privatisation and
de/politicisation in Berlin”, in Special Issue, ‘Depoliticisation, Governance and the State’, Policy
and Politics, Vol. 42, No. 2, 275–291
Beveridge, R. & Kern, K. (2013) “The ‘Energiewende’ in Germany: background, developments
and future challenges”, Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 3–13.
Beveridge, R. (2012) “Consultants, depoliticization and arena-shifting in the policy process:
privatizing water in Berlin”, Policy Sciences, Vol. 45, No. 1, 47-68.
Beveridge, R. & Monsees, J. (2012) “Bridging Parallel Discourses of Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM): Institutional and Political Challenges in Developing and Developed
Countries”, Water International, Vol. 37, No. 7, 728–744.
Beveridge, R. & Guy, S. (2009) “Governing through translations: intermediaries and the
mediation of the EU’s Urban Wastewater Directive”, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning,
Vol. 11, No. 2, 69–85.
Beveridge, R. & Guy, S. (2005) “The rise of the eco-preneur and the messy world of
environmental innovation”, Local Environment, Vol. 10, No. 6, 665–676.
Book Chapters
Beveridge, R. and Naumann, R. (2015) “Another urban infrastructure is possible: contesting
energy and water networks in Berlin” in Coutard, O. and Rutherford, J. (eds.) Beyond the Networked
City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. London: Routledge.
Becker, S., Röhring, A. & Beveridge, R. (Forthcoming 2015) “Energy Transitions and
Institutional Reconfiguration: Reassessing Structure and Agency” in Moss, T. and Gailing, L.
(eds.) Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition: Power, Socio-Materiality and Space. London: Palgrave.
Becker, S., Beveridge, R., Naumann, M. (2015) “Reconfiguring Energy Provision in Berlin.
Commoning between Compromise and Contestation” in Dellenbaugh, M., Kip, M., Bieniok, M.,
Müller, K. and Schwegmann, M. (eds.) Urban Commons. Moving Beyond State and Market. Basel:
Birkhäuser, 196-213 (Bauwelt Fundamente 154)
Beveridge, R. & Richter, A.(2014) “Die post-politische Stadt” in Belina, B., Naumann, M. and
Strüver, A. (eds.): Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 53–58.
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Beveridge, R. & Naumann, M. (2013) “The Berlin Water Company. From "Inevitable"
Privatization to "Impossible" Remunicipalization” in Bernt, M.; Grell, B.; Holm, A. (eds.) The
Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Bielefeld: transcript (Urban Studies),
189–203.
Beveridge, R. & Guy, S. (2010) “Innovation to Intermediaries: Translating the EU Urban
Wastewater Directive” in Guy, S., Marvin, S., Medd, W., Moss, T. (eds.) Shaping Urban
Infrastructures: Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks. London: Earthscan, 92–
107.
Beveridge, R. & Moss, T. (2008) “The Parrett Catchment Project: between rhetoric and reality” in
Moss, T. and Monstadt, J. (eds) Restoring Floodplains in Europe. Policy Contexts and Project Experiences.
London: IWA Publishing, 286–314.
Beveridge, R. & Hüesker, F. (2008) “Nichtöffentlichkeit als Prinzip. Die Teilprivatisierung der
Berliner Wasserbetriebe“ in Wasserkolloquium (eds) Wasser: Die Kommerzialisierung eines öffentlichen
Gutes. Berlin: Karl Dietz, 58–74.
Manuscripts in Submission
Müller, T., Beveridge, R. & Kern, K. “Social Sustainability in Urban Development Projects: The
cases of Malmö Augustenborg and Potsdam Drewitz” (Submission in 09/2015 to Urban Affairs
Review)
Beveridge, R., Naumann, M. & Moss, T. “Politics, Space and Scale in Water reuse” (Submission
in 03/2016 to Water Alternatives).
Manuscripts in Preparation
Beveridge, R. & Koch, P. “Political Imaginaries and the possibilities of the city: urban change and
the political” (submission to IJURR)
Cumbers, A., Beveridge, R., Becker, S. and Naumann, M. “The politics and spatialities of
remunicipalisation and new forms of public ownership” (submission to Progress in Human
Geography)
Online Publications
Beveridge, R., Monsees, J. & Moss, T. (2012), The IRS Handbook. Analyzing Institutional and Political
Contexts of Water Resources Management Projects. Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und
Strukturplanung, 58 Pages. Available: http://www.irs-net.de/download/publikationen/WarmInen.pdf
Reviews
Beveridge, R. (2010) “Planning, Projects, Practice: A Human Geography of the Stockholm Local
Investment Programme in Hammarby Sjöstad” by Jonas R. Bylund, 2006 Stockholm: Stockholm
University, Urban Studies, Vol. 47, No. 14, 3159–3160.
Beveridge, R. (2007) “Postmodern Public Administration: Revised edition, by Hugh Miller and
Charles J. Fox. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Science and Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 8, 603–604.
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Scholarships and Awards
04/2015 12/ 2015
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences (GES), International Project
Partnership Scheme 2015, University of Glasgow
10/200907/2010
Postgraduate Grant: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
10/200610/2009
Newcastle University Doctoral Studentship (School of Geography, Politics
and Sociology).
05/200607/2006
Research Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
02/200604/2006
UACES Scholar, University Association for Contemporary European Studies
(UACES), the United Kingdom Academic Association for European Studies.
Research Applications (Funded)
WaRM-In. Strengthening Integrated Water Resource Management through institutional
analysis: an analytical tool and operative methodology for research projects and
programmes
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Joint application with Dr. Timothy Moss (IRS): €225.000
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (11/2010-06/2012)
Research Applications (Submitted)
Unblocking Low-Carbon Transition: Constructing Coalitions for Infrastructure Renewal
in UK, Germany and Denmark
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Joint application with Prof. Andrew Cumbers (University of Glasgow): £ 495.000
UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) (submitted 09/2015)
LOCPOL: Locating the Political: (de)politicisation and climate change in the postindustrialising cities of Glasgow and Malmö.
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Joint Application with Dr. David Featherstone (University of Glasgow): £252.835
EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual European Fellowship (submitted 09/2015)
The Politics of Depoliticisation: locating the political in urban climate governance
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Sole Applicant: €196.800
German Research Foundation (DFG): Individual Research Grants Scheme (submitted
09/2015)
Urban Transitions towards Sustainability: Pathways, Local Experiments and Learning in
Networks (UrbTransSus).
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Joint Application with Prof. Kristine Kern (IRS): €456.162
Open Research Area (ORA) (submitted 02/2013)
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Research Experience
Pocacito. Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow – foresight for sustainable pathways towards
liveable, affordable and prospering cities in a world context
Funded within EU 7th Framework Programme (1/2014-12/2016)
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Main Role: Work Package coordinator: Urban Sustainability Inventories (leading 12 partner
institutions in collection and analysis of good practice in European urban sustainability at
city, district and policy sector levels)
WaRM-In. Strengthening Integrated Water Resource Management through institutional
analysis: an analytical tool and operative methodology for research projects and
programmes
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (11/2010-06/2012)
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Main Role: co-investigator: social science approaches to institutional and political analysis;
co-author of analytical handbook
Intermediaries. New Intermediary Services and the Transformation of Urban Water
Supply and Wastewater Disposal Systems in Europe
Funded within EU 5th Framework Programme (11/2002-10/2005)
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Main Role: main researcher at Newcastle University: conducted case study on urban
wastewater innovation and the literature reviews on liberalisation of EU utility policy
Teaching
Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) (April 2015 - ):
o Lecturer and Seminar Leader:
BA course (Summer Semester): Political Economy and Social Structure in Modern Society
Potsdam University (November 2012 – September 2014):
o Lecturer and Seminar Leader on MA modules (Co-taught 2012-13, Sole-taught: 20132014):
Governing Sustainable Cities (2012-14)
Climate Governance (2013-14)
o Masters dissertation supervision 2013-14 (with Kristine Kern):
T. Müller (2014): “Securing the Social Dimension of Sustainability in Urban Development
Projects? Urban Governance in Potsdam and Malmö”.
Newcastle University (2003-2009):
o Seminar Leader: BA Modules 2006 – 2009:
European Political Systems (2006-2009)
Introduction to International Politics (2006-7)
o MA and BA Dissertation supervision (2003 – 2005): MA Urban Development
Dissertation Supervisor & BA Final Year Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor (Urban
Studies).
o BA Urban Studies Final Year Dissertation Examiner (2004-2005)
Other teaching:
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o October 2009 – March 2011: Seminar Leader, Department of Geography, Hamburg
University: Writing Academic English (compulsory MA module).
o Guest Lectures (2005-7): Potsdam, Hamburg and Cottbus Universities.
Conference and Workshop organisation
“Dynamics of (De)politicisation: Broadening the Research Agenda”
International Workshop of the Anti-politics and Depoliticization Specialist Group of the British Political Studies
Association and CEU Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 10. Oktober
2014 (Co-organiser).
“Arena-shifting and Urban/Regional Politics: Depoliticization, Conflict and Democracy”, Panel
Chair (with Philippe Koch), 8th Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference, Vienna, 3.-5. Juli 2013.
Selected Presentations
“Another urban infrastructure is possible: struggles over water and energy networks and urban
politics in Berlin” (with M. Naumann), German Congress of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin,
1-6 October, 2015
“The Post-political trap: reflections on politics/ political, agency and the city” (with P. Koch),
Workshop: ‘Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group of Political Studies Association (PSA),
Sheffield University, 12. June 2015
“Post-politics and depoliticisation in the city” (with P. Koch), Workshop: Anti-politics and
Depoliticisation Specialist Group of Political Studies Association (PSA), Central European University,
Budapest, 10. October 2014
“Ideas, Strategies and Structures: a Relational Institutionalist Approach to Energy Transitions”
(with S. Becker), 5th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Utrecht, 27.-29. August 2014
“De/ politicisation in urban governance: concepts and empirics” (with P. Koch), 8th Interpretative
Policy Analysis Conference, Vienna, 3.-5. July 2013
“From Policy Transfer and Diffusion to Policy Mobility? Exploring global-urban connections in
energy governance” (with K. Kern), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los
Angeles, 9.-13. April 2013
“Energy and Water Remunicipalization in German Cities: re-imagining urban governance?”(with
M. Naumann), Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, ,Edinburgh, 3.-5. Juli 2012
“Depoliticization and arena-shifting in 1990s Berlin”, Political Studies Association Annual Conference,
Belfast, 3.-5. April 2012
“Living with post-politics: IWRM and its critics’, Royal Geographical Society Annual International
Conference, London, 31. August-2. September 2011.
“Consultants and the policy process: privatising water in Berlin’. Second Berlin Forum Innovation in
Governance, Berlin, 19.-20. Mai 2011.
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Languages
English (Native Speaker), German (Fluent, written and spoken)
Peer Reviews
Urban Studies
Politics and Policy
Geoforum
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Water Policy
Memberships and scientific positions
Co-convener: “Anti-politics and Depoliticisation Specialist Group” of the UK Political Studies
Association (PSA).
Member: UK Political Studies Association (PSA)
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