Rate My Professor Nick Clarke

Professor Nick Clarke is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Southampton. His research centres on governance and citizenship, encompassing three primary areas. The first involves innovative responses to globalisation from 2004 onwards, supported by grants from the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, and Local Government Alliance for International Development. This work addresses global citizenship, ethical consumption, and interurban partnerships, as detailed in his co-authored book Globalising Responsibility (2011, Wiley-Blackwell). The second area examines challenges to representative democracy arising from the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the rise of populism, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic since 2013, funded by the ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust. It explores relations between national and local government, and between politicians and citizens, prominently featured in his co-authored book The Good Politician (2018, Cambridge University Press). The third focuses on methodological opportunities provided by Mass Observation for governance and citizenship studies since 2014, also funded by the ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust, including a co-edited special section of History of the Human Sciences on 'Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic' and his edited book Everyday Life in the COVID-19 Pandemic (2024, Bloomsbury).