Rate My Professor Mark Tebboth

Mark Tebboth is Associate Professor in the Environment and Global Development in the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia. He joined the School of International Development as a Lecturer in Environment and International Development in November 2018 and was subsequently promoted to his current position. An interdisciplinary social scientist, his research focuses on how people and populations respond to and adapt to risks arising from global environmental change, with particular interests in human migration and mobility, forced displacement, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. He has worked in the Greater Horn of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, and leads or co-leads projects including Successful intervention pathways for migration as adaptation (SUCCESS), Climate Change Local Adaptation Pathways (CLAPs), and Voices of Recovery.

Tebboth graduated from the University of Sussex in 2001 with a joint degree in Geography with Environmental and Development Studies. He completed an MSc in Climate Change and International Development at UEA with Distinction, receiving the Blaikie Prize for the best dissertation in the politics of the environment, and earned his PhD at UEA on the impact of extreme events on rural-to-urban migration in China, with key findings published in 2019 in Global Environmental Change. Prior to his lectureship, he served as a Senior Research Associate on the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project in East Africa. He is a theme leader in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, co-leader of the Climate@UEA initiative, and co-convenes the Masters in Climate Change and International Development. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on natural resource governance, climate change, and migration, and is a member of the Global Environmental Justice group and the Migration Research Network.