Affiliated Researchers

Y Ariadne Collins is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She holds a doctorate in Environmental Sciences and Policy, a Master’s in Research in International Environmental Policy and Politics and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Guyana. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin before taking up this role. 

Her research interests include climate change governance and environmental policy and politics, especially in relation to the historical and cultural uses of forests in the Guianas. More specifically, she conducts research on neoliberalism and development through an analysis of market-based conservation and post-colonial development. Ariadne’s work is particularly attuned to the legacy of the colonial encounter in structuring the societies of Guyana and Suriname, often identifying and interrogating connections between this historical experience and the market methods for effecting behaviour change around the use of forests.