School of Social and Political Science

Background

Qualifications

1999: BA Hons in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Johns College, Oxford University)

2005: MPhil in Philosophy (University College London)

2008: PhD in Philosophy (University College London)

Biographical sketch

Elizabeth took her first degree in PPE at St John's College, Oxford. She spent four years as a journalist, primarily for the Financial Times Group, before returning to academia in 2003. She completed her PhD and held a part time lectureship in in political philosophy (2007-2008) at University College London.

Elizabeth joined Edinburgh University in 2008 on a fixed term lectureship in political theory, then held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship from 2009-2012. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2016.

Selected publications

Trade books

2023

Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids - and Everyone Else, MIT Press

2022

What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care, Bloomsbury

Monograph

2013

Climate Change and the Moral Agent: Individual Duties in an Interdependent World, Oxford University Press

Research articles and chapters

2024

"Why It Can Be Permissible to Have Kids in the Climate Emergency."
​Journal of Applied Philosophy

"School for Sedition? Climate Justice, Citizenship, and Education." 
​Journal of Moral Education

2021

"Population Ethics for an Imperfect World: Basic justice, reasonable disagreement, and unavoidable value judgements." Journal of Development Studies

"Intergenerational Ethics & Individual Duties." Stephen Gardiner ed. Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford University Press)

K. Dooley, C. Holz, S. Kartha, S. Klinsky, T. Roberts, H. Shue, H. Winkler, T. Athanasiou, S. Caney, E. Cripps, N. K. Dubash, G. Hall, P. G. Harris, B. Lahn, D. Moellendorf, B. Müller, A. Sagar, P. Singer. ‘On the basis of equity: Quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement.’ Nature Climate Change 11: 300-305

2020

"Individual Climate Justice Duties: The Cooperative Promotional Model and Its Challenges", Jeremy Moss and Lachlan Umbers eds. Climate Justice and Non-State Actors: Corporations, Regions, Cities, and Individuals (Routledge)

2017

"Do Parents Have A Special Duty To Mitigate Climate Change?", Politics, Philosophy & Economics (Online First)

"Justice, Integrity and Moral Community: Do parents owe it to their children to bring them up as good global climate citizens?", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (1): 41-59

"Population, Climate Change, and Global Justice: A Moral Framework for Debate", Journal of Population and Sustainability 1 (2): 23-36

2016

“Climate Change, Population, and Justice: Hard Choices to Avoid Tragic Choices”, Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 8 (2): 1-22                

"Population and Environment: The Impossible, the Impermissible, and the Imperative", Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson eds. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press)

2011

"Climate Change, Collective Harm and Legitimate Coercion", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (2): 171-193. Reprinted in: Gideon Calder and Catriona McKinnon eds. Climate Change and Liberal Priorities (London: Routledge, 2011)

"Collectivities without Intention", Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (1): 1-20

2010

"Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World: Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems?", Res Publica 16 (1): 1-22

Edited symposium

"Breakthrough’ symposium: "Henry Shue, Climate Justice Pioneer", British Journal of Politics and International Relations 21(2)

Review essays

2016

“On Climate Matters: Offsetting, Population, & Justice", Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Symposium on John Broome: Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (London & New York: Norton, 2012).

2011

"Where We Are Now: Climate Ethics and Future Challenges", Review Essay, Climate Law 2: 117-133