Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

I am employed on a part-time basis to carry out research and doctoral supervsion. Currently I have 20 items eligible for the 2012 REF - three co-authored books and 17 co-authored articles in  peer-reviewed journals. I have co-supervised six doctoral students (including four ESRC/NERC studentship award holders) to completion during the REF reference period, and I am currently supervising/co-supervising three doctoral students (including three ESRC/NERC studentship award holders).

Research Interests

Tim Gray began his academic career as a political theorist in 1963, and developed an interest in environmental politics during the 1990s. He has authored/co-authored 5 books and 13 articles/chapters in political thought, and authored/co-authored/edited 7 books and 43 articles/chapters in environmental politics. The topics on which he has published in environmental politics include temperate and tropical fisheries management; the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy; fisheries-dependent communities; fishers’ knowledge and scientific knowledge; discourses in fisheries politics; stakeholder participation in fisheries governance; discard policies; coral reef fisheries management; governance of marine protected areas; distributive justice and fishing opportunities; international whaling politics; water and sanitation politics; politics of genetic resources; population policy; the environmental  movement; environment agencies; windfarm siting policy; international environmental moratoria; and minewater pollution remediation policy.   

Postgraduate Supervision

Tim Gray  has supervised/co-supervised 30 PhD students and seven MPhil students to completion, and is currently co-supervising three PhD students. Fifteen of the 33 PhD students held ESRC/NERC studentship awards. 

Projects

• IBEFish
  Project Leader(s): Professor Tim Gray

Undergraduate Teaching

I no longer have any teaching duties, but I do periodically supervise dissertations by undergraduates and Masters students  

• Bown N, Gray T, Stead S. Contested Forms of Governance in Marine Protected Areas: a Study of Co-Management and Adaptive Co-Management. London: Earthscan, 2012. Submitted.
• Al-Bisher H, Stead S, Gray T. Saudi Maritime Policy: Integrated Governance. London, UK: Routledge, 2011.
• Coren N, Gray T. Commodification of Volunteer Tourism: a Comparative Study of Volunteer Tourists in Vietnam and in Thailand. International Journal of Tourism Research 2012, 14(3), 222-234.
• Patterson A, Gray T. Is the British government’s pragmatic approach to the precautionary principle in three environmental policy areas – OPs, GM crops and BSE – unprincipled or principled?. Environmental Politics 2012. In Press.
• Nagel P, Gray T. Is the EU's Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) with Mauritania a genuine partnership or exploitation by the EU?. Ocean and Coastal Management 2012, 56, 26-34.
• Lieberman S, Gray T, Groom AJR. Moratoria in international politics: a comparative analysis of the moratoria on genetically modified products and commercial whaling. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Caveen AJ, Gray TS, Stead SM, Polunin NVC. MPA policy: What lies behind the science?. Marine Policy 2012. In Press.
• Turner RA, Gray T, Polunin NVC, Stead SM. Territoriality as a driver of fishers' spatial behaviour in the Northumberland lobster fishery. Society & Natural Resources 2012. In Press.
• Al-Bisher H, Stead S, Gray T. The concept of integrated national maritime policy and its application to Saudi Arabia. Maritime Policy and Management 2012. In Press.
• Gray TS. Participatory fisheries governance - Three central themes. In: Gray TS, ed. Participation in Fisheries Governance. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2005, pp.343-356.
• Gray TS. Theorising about participatory fisheries governance. In: Participation in Fisheries Governance. 2005, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Springer.