Duncan Depledge

Senior Lecturer in Geopolitics and Security in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. His current work tackles the implications of climate change and the global energy transition for the future character of military operations and war. Duncan's latest research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. He has recently published papers on the concept of 'low-carbon warfare' in International Affairs (2023), and on the UK Ministry of Defence's latest thinking regarding the need for a military energy transition in the European Journal of International Security (2024). Duncan is also a Senior Research Associate of the Climate Change & In(security) Project, University of Oxford and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining Loughborough University in 2019, Dr Depledge was the founding director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions (2015-2019). He holds a doctorate from Royal Holloway, University of London, MPhil in Geography (University of Cambridge), MA in Political Theory (University of Sheffield) and BA (Hons) in History (University of Sheffield).