Royal Holloway, University of London

Faculty Member, Geography

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Royal Holloway, University of London

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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-10)
Web Editor, The Geographical Journal


Alasdair Pinkerton graduated with an MA in Geography from the University of St. Andrews in 2001. He then moved to Royal Holloway, where he completed the MA Cultural Geography (2002) and an ESRC-funded PhD, entitled "Radio Geopolitics: the BBC World Service as Britain's 'Voice around the World'." His PhD was supervised by Prof. Klaus Dodds and was completed in late-2006. Alasdair has also been seconded to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) where he authored a parliamentary report on the issue of 'Pervasive Computing' and the increasing ubiquity of micro-electronic technology within our built environment.

Alasdair researches in the areas of critical geopolitics, the media, and the 'international relations' of public diplomacy. He has developed particular interests in the geopolitics of the South Atlantic (Falkland Islands, Argentina and Chile) and South Asia (India, Pakistan and Afghanistan). His latest project is supported by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-10) and investigates the geo-strategic role of international broadcasting during the Cold War. In January 2009 Alasdair was awarded a further British Academy Small Research Grant to undertake a project to investigate US public diplomacy strategy at the height of the Cold War, 1950-1965.

He has recent publications in the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society', 'Twentieth Century British History', and the 'Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'.

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