Professional qualifications

  • PhD Keele University
  • MA Lancaster University
  • BA University of East Anglia

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research supervision

I am open to applications for doctoral supervision of research in environmental ethics, philosophy or politics.

Centre for Environmental Humanities.

Teaching

I currently lead Political Ideologies, Sustainability In Action, and Environmental Politics. I also teach on other Politics modules including Introduction to Politics, Power and Political Institutions, and Political Philosophy and supervise final year Politics, PPE and EPP projects under the umbrella of Politics Project and related modules.

I have taught on a wide range of other modules across Politics, Philosophy and Geography subject areas during my time at Bath Spa, including Protest and Persuasion, Worlds of Ideas, Truth and Reality; Ethics and Values; Philosophy Religion and the Environment; Ecology and Nature; Environment People and Place; Climate Change and Sustainability; Climate and Society; Geography Dissertation; Sustainability in Life and Work; Nature Conservation in Context; Principles of Environmental Management; Environment and Society and Ecosystem Management.

From 2021-2025 I led Bath Spa's pioneering MA in Environmental Humanities, convened its core modules Environmental Humanities: Issues and Approaches and Interdisciplinary Research Methods for Environmental Humanities, and led my own specialist modules Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and Managing Sustainability, and supervised student dissertations on topics within my areas of expertise.

Funded Research

From 2014-2019 I provided the environmental ethics component of an AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project entitled "Future Pasts", led from Bath Spa by Professor Sian Sullivan. See .

Research outputs

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Sullivan, S, Ganuses, W.S, Hannis, M, Impey, A, Low, C and Rohde, R (2019) Future pasts: landscape, memory and music in West Namibia. 2nd ed. Future Pasts, 黑料正能量, Bath. ISBN 9781911126140

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Sullivan, S, Hannis, M, Impey, A, Low, C and Rohde, R (2017) Future pasts: landscape, memory and music in West Namibia. Future Pasts, 黑料正能量, Bath. ISBN 9781911126058

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Hannis, M (2015) Freedom and environment: autonomy, human flourishing and the political philosophy of sustainability. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9781138777279

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Hannis, M and Sullivan, S (2023) 'Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa.' In: Kryder-Reid, E and May, S, eds. Toxic heritage: legacies, futures, and environmental injustice. Routledge, pp. 23-34. ISBN 9781003365259

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Hannis, M (2021) 'We'll always have Paris.' In: B枚hm, S and Sullivan, S, eds. Negotiating climate change in crisis. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9781800642621

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Hannis, M (2020) 'Why virtue is good for you: the politics of ecological eudaimonism.' In: Bai, H, Chang, D and Scott, C, eds. A book of ecological virtues: living well in the Anthropocene. University of Regina Press, Regina. ISBN 9780889777569

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Cottine, C, Hannis, M and Sullivan, S (2018) 'Dialogue.' In: Hartman, L.M, ed. That all may flourish: comparative religious environmental ethics. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, pp. 297-300. ISBN 9780190456030

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Hannis, M and Sullivan, S (2018) 'Relationality, reciprocity and flourishing in an African landscape.' In: Hartman, L.M, ed. That all may flourish: comparative religious environmental ethics. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, pp. 279-296. ISBN 9780190456030

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Hannis, M (2017) 'After development: in defence of sustainability.' In: Foster, J, ed. Post-sustainability: tragedy and transformation. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138296497

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Hannis, M and Rawles, K (2013) 'Compensation or bribery? Ethical issues in the treatment of communities hosting radioactive waste.' In: Oughton, D, Hansson, S and Baxter, M, eds. Social and ethical aspects of radiation risk management. Radioactivity in the Environment . Elsevier, London. ISBN 9780080450155

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Hannis, M (2012) 'Nature, consumption and human flourishing.' In: Weintrobe, S, ed. Engaging with climate change: psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary perspectives. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9780415667623

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Hannis, M (2009) 'Planning for permaculture? Land-use planning, sustainable development, and 'ecosystem people'.' In: Bohm, S, Lohmann, L and Dabhi, S, eds. Upsetting the offset: the political economy of carbon markets. MayFly. ISBN 9781906948061

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2017) '鈥淢athematics maybe, but not money鈥�: on balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting.' Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 30 (7). pp. 1459-1480. ISSN 0951-3574

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Hannis, M (2017) 'After development? In defence of sustainability.' Global Discourse, 7 (1). pp. 28-38. ISSN 2326-9995

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2015) 'Nets and frames, losses and gains: value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England.' Ecosystem Services, 15. pp. 162-173. ISSN 2212-0416

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Hannis, M (2015) 'The virtues of acknowledged ecological dependence: sustainability, autonomy and human flourishing.' Environmental Values, 24 (2). pp. 145-164. ISSN 0963-2719

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Hannis, M (2011) 'Land-use planning, permaculture and the transitivity of development.' International Journal of Green Economics, 5 (3). pp. 269-284. ISSN 1744-9928

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Hannis, M (2005) 'Public provision of environmental goods: neutrality or sustainability? A reply to David Miller.' Environmental Politics, 14 (5). pp. 577-595. ISSN 0964-4016

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Hannis, M (2017) Killing nature to save it? ethics, economics and the trophy hunting of black rhinoceros. In: BSU Environmental Humanities Research Centre Public Lecture, 13 December 2017, 黑料正能量, UK.

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2017) 鈥楳athematics maybe, but not money鈥�: on balance sheets, numbers and nature in ecological accounting. In: Capitalizing Nature: Forms and Strategies for Economizing the Environment, 19th to 21st Century, 12 -13 June 2017, Centre Alexandre Koyr茅, Paris, France.

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2016) Ontology after truth? Ethnography and ethics in an unraveling world. In: Bath Spa's Research Centre for Environmental Humanities presents a Public Panel Discussion: Doing Interdisciplinarity with Depth, 15 December 2016, 黑料正能量, Bath, UK.

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Heap, T, Juniper, T, Huxham, M, Mace, G, King, M, Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2016) Does nature come with a price tag? In: Earthwatch Debate Series, 5 May 2016, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2014) 鈥淢athematics maybe, but not money鈥�: on the nature of numbers, and the numbers of nature. In: Ecological Accounts: Making Non-Human Worlds (In)visible During Moments of Socio-ecological Transformation, 26 August 2014, University of St. Andrews, UK.

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Sullivan, S, Hannis, M, Jutta, K, O'Neill, J and Robertson, M (2014) New directions in conservation: a closer look at 鈥榲alue鈥� and offsetting. In: 2nd Forum on Natural Commons, on Challenging Biodiversity Offsetting and the Financialisation of Nature, 2 June 2014, Regents Park Hub, London, UK.

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Hannis, M (2016) Killing nature to save it? Ethics, economics and rhino hunting in Namibia. Future Pasts Working Paper No.4. ISBN 9781911126041

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2016) Relationality, reciprocity and flourishing in an African landscape: perspectives on agency amongst ||Khao-a Dama, !Narenin and ||Ubun elders in west Namibia. Future Pasts Working Paper No.2. ISBN 9781911126010

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Sullivan, S, Hannis, M, Impey, A, Low, C and Rohde, R.F (2016) Future pasts? Sustainabilities in west Namibia - a conceptual framework for research. Future Pasts Working Paper No.1. ISBN 9781911126034

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2014) Nets and frames, losses and gains: value struggles in engagements with biodiversity offsetting policy in England. LCSV working paper series no. 5. ISBN 9780992818944

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Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2012) Offsetting nature? Habitat banking and biodiversity offsets in the English land use planning system. Green House. ISBN 9780956954572

exhibition

Ganuses, W.S, Sullivan, S and Hannis, M (2019) Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia [curators]. COSDEF Community Arts Venue, Swakopmund, Namibia, 5 - 15 June 2019.