Professor Klaus Dodds researches in the areas of geopolitics, media and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He has published five books including Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007), Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction (Pearson Education, 2005) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris, 2002).

He was an academic consultant on the Discovering the Arctic website operated by the Royal Geographical Society.

In November 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and human geography. In academic year 2010-11, he will be a visiting fellow at St Cross College, Oxford and HARC fellow at Royal Holloway.

Klaus Dodds and Richard Powell (University of Liverpool) have been awarded an ESRC Seminar series award (January 2010-July 2011) for the following topic - ‘Knowledges, resources and legal regimes: the new geopolitics of the Polar Regions’. Further information is available here.

For a recent short commentary on the Arctic and changing governance see: http://atlantic-community.org/index/articles/view/Sea_and_State_Change

He is a series editor (alongside Alan Ingran - UCL and Merje Kuus - University of British Columbia) of 'Critical Geopolitics', which publishes monographs and edited volumes on the subject matter. Details of the Ashgate published series can be found at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=3440.