Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin,

Lecturer

Biography

Dr Becky Alexis-Martin joined academia after a successful prior career in emergency management. Her research arises at the point where peace, science and technology, humanitarian aid, justice and human rights coalesce. Her research has tackled challenges including: modelling the behaviours of city-dwellers during nuclear events, understanding the lives of nuclear test veterans and their families, exploring the afterlives of nuclear bunkers, writing on the lived experiences of those scarred by nuclear accident and warfare, sharing the aesthetics of 1950s atomic America, and identifying the humanitarian and environmental needs of local nuclear weapons test affected communities worldwide. Her first monograph, "Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impacts of Nuclear Warfare" was the recipient of the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. She is available for collaboration, consultancy, and PhD supervision. Background:PhD, Social and Mathematical Sciences. University of Southampton "RADPOP: A New Spatiotemporal Modelling Framework for Radiation Protection". MSc, Environmental Diagnosis and Management. Royal Holloway, University of London.BSc (Hons) Natural Sciences. University of Birmingham.Affiliations:Fellow of the Royal Geographical SocietyChartered Member of the Institute for Environmental HealthFellow of the Higher Education AssociationPublications: Selected Peer-Reviewed Books, Papers, Policy Reports, and Special EditionsAlexis-Martin, B. and Malin, S. 2024. Gender and Environmental Justice. Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Bloomsbury (in press).Alexis-Martin, B. and Kremakova, M. 2024. Editorial: Sociology of War. Sociological Review.Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. From now until Doomsday: Can societal norms help us to prevent our own obliteration? Sociology of War. Sociological Review.Alexis-Martin, B., Johnson, O., and UI Ain, Q. 2024. Addressing the Impact of UK and US Testing in Kiribati. Norwegian People’s Aid. April 2024 (report).Alexis-Martin, B., Maslen, M., Kaller, K., Donaldson, B., UI Ain, Q. 2024. TPNW: Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation in the Pacific. Asia Pacific Leadership Network (report).Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. War and Conflict. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities. Routledge (in press).Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. Blasts from the Past: Echoing Memories and Making Fragile Kin Sixty Years after the H-Bomb. Environmental Humanities (under contract).Alexis-Martin, B. 2023. Geographies of Nuclear War. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.Alexis-Martin, B., 2023. Nuclear Mobilities. In: The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. Routledge.Alexis-Martin, B., Donaldson, B, Tiemory, E, Minor, E. 2022. Impacts from the British Nuclear Tests in Kiribati. United Nations Association Report for the First Meeting of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations. Vienna. 20-23 June 2022.Alexis-Martin, B., 2022. Book Review: The State of a Nuclear State: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado. Cultural Geographies, 29(2), pp.329-330.Bowman, B., Bell, K. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2021. Youth, Climate, and Environmentalism. In Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism (pp. 132-147). Routledge.Alexis‐Martin, B., Turnbull, J., Bennett, L., Bolton, M., Davies, T., Dunlop, G., Hawkins, D., Hogue, R.H., Holloway, P., Malin, S.A. and Mangioni, T.L., 2021. Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues. International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology.Alexis‐Martin, B., Bolton, M.B., Hawkins, D., Tisch, S. and Mangioni, T.L., 2021. Addressing the Humanitarian and Environmental Consequences of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapon Tests: A Case Study of UK and US test Programs at Kiritimati (Christmas) and Malden Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Global Policy, 12(1), pp.106-121.Alexis-Martin, B, Malin, S, and Jensen, C. 2020. Rocky Flats and Environmental Health: Contested Illnesses and Contended Spaces. In Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. Iversen, K. ed., Fulcrum Publishing.Alexis-Martin, B., Sandys, K. and Mulvihill, M., 2020. ‘Mine are the Dead Spaces': A Discussion of Bunker Work’s Atmospheres, Limits and Routines. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13(1), pp.54-74.Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Creating Object-Based Learning for the Anthropocene: A Critical Reflection. International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 7(3), pp.215-223.Alexis-Martin, B. 2020. Nuclear Warfare and Weather (Im)mobilities. In Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects (eds. Barry, Borovnik, Edensor). Routledge.Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Ginkgo. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 263-266). MUP.Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Radium. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 237-240). MUP.Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Arsenic. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 199-201). MUP.Alexis-Martin, B., Kuntsman, A. and Xin, L., 2020. Editorial. Special Edition: Digital COVID. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(1).Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Sensing the Deathscape: Digital Media and Death during COVID-19. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(1), pp.11-1.Alexis-Martin, B., Malin, S., Winde, F. 2019-2020. Special Edition: Extracting Social Justice from Uranium. The Extractive Industries and Society.Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Untangling Uranium. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.517-519.Malin, S.A. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Embedding the Atom: Pro-neoliberal Activism, Polanyi, and Sites of acceptance in American uranium communities. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.535-543.Malin, S.A. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Assessing the State of Uranium Research: Environmental Justice, Health, and Extraction. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.512-516.Alexis-Martin, B., Waight, E. and Blell, M., 2019. Nuclear Families: A Social Study of British Nuclear Test Veteran Community Families. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK.Alexis-Martin, B. 2019. Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impacts of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima. London: Pluto Press. ISBN: 0745339204. Won British International Studies Association L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2020. Shortlisted for Bread and Roses Award 2020.Alexis-Martin, B., 2019. Geographies of Nuclear Warfare: Future Spaces, Zones, and Technologies. In: A Research Agenda for Military Geographies. Edward Elgar Press. pp.40–56. ISBN: 9781786438867Alexis-Martin, B., 2019. The Nuclear Imperialism-Necropolitics Nexus: Contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur Oppression in our Nuclear Age. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60(2), pp.152-176.Alexis-Martin, B., 2018. Book review: Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. Cultural Sociology, 12(2)Alexis-Martin, B., 2018. The Derelict Afterlives of Para-nuclear Waste. Toxic News. European Research Council.Malin, S., and Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. Flatlining: Exploring hidden toxic landscapes and the embodiment of contamination at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, USA. Toxic News. European Research Council.Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: the Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(9), pp. 1366-1368.Alexis-Martin, B., and Davies, T., 2017. Towards Nuclear Geography: Zones, Bodies and Communities. Geography Compass, 11(9), e12325Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. An Unnatural Environmental History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Environment & Society, Summer, no. 21. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. It was a Blast!'—Camp Life on Christmas Island, 1956–1958. Environment & Society, Autumn, no. 19. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. Grapple Slings and Moonshine: Conversations with the Men who Tested Atomic Weapons on Christmas Island. Toxic News. European Research CouncilAlexis-Martin, B., 2016. The Chernobyl necklace: the psychosocial experiences of female radiation emergency survivors. BELGEO, 1, pp.1-10. Selected MediaAlexis-Martin, B. (April 25 2024) New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up. The Conversation.Alexis-Martin, B. (October 19 2023) Veterans join Pacific Islanders in bid for nuclear testing compensation. The Telegraph.Alexis-Martin, B. (2 November 2023) The forgotten history of Britain's nuclear weapons tests Imperial War Museum. (Short film)Alexis-Martin, B. (August 8 2023) A Field Guide to International Studies. British International Studies AssociationAlexis-Martin, B. (September 7 2023) Generating Atomic Epistemic Justice: Changing What we Don’t Know. United Nations Association. Alexis-Martin, B. Ten Steps to Equity: Making Fieldwork Accessible. The Times. Making fieldwork accessibleAlexis-Martin, B and Leigh, J. (March 7 2023). Ten Steps to Equity: Academic Recruitment. The Times.Alexis-Martin, B. (February 14 2023) Use a Defibrillator and Fix a Broken Heart. Cosmic Shambles Network.Alexis-Martin, B. (August 11 2022) Our Friend the Atom. Real Life. Snap, Inc.Alexis-Martin, B. (July 24 2022) Disabled academics need more protection against biased hiring. The TimesAlexis-Martin, B. Fallout: Series 4. BBC Radio 4. (First broadcast 30 Dec 2021). Expert consultant.Alexis-Martin, B. (October 27 2020) Nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history. The Independent.​​Alexis-Martin, B. (September 12 2020) Trump’s nomination makes a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Independent.​​Alexis-Martin, B. (August 26 2020) The story of women scarred in Hiroshima reminds us the threat of nuclear war has never gone away. The Independent.Alexis-Martin, B. (June 13 2020) The devastating atomic history of Christmas Island. The Independent.Alexis-Martin, B. (June 2 2020) Trump is looking to restart nuclear tests for the first time in 28 years, and we should all be worried. The Independent.Alexis-Martin, B. et al. (August 15 2019) Climate Crisis: Migration cannot be the only option for people living on 'drowning' islands. BBC Futures.Alexis-Martin, B. (4 July 2019) The atomic history of Kiritimati – a tiny island where humanity realised its most lethal potential. The Conversation.Alexis-Martin, B. (September 14 2018) Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows. The Conversation.Alexis-Martin, B. (6 April 2018) Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens. www.deadmaidens.comAlexis-Martin, B. (7 September 2018) In the shadow of Fat Man and Little Boy. The Guardian.Alexis-Martin, B. (6 August 2017) Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima. The Guardian.Alexis-Martin, B. (8 February 2017) Architecture of the apocalypse: is it time to bring back nuclear bunkers? The Conversation.Alexis-Martin, B. (30 January 2017) Finger on the button: should Trump's nuclear weapons access be restricted? The Guardian.Alexis-Martin, B. (16 December 2016) If nuclear war broke out, where's the safest place on Earth? The Guardian.Alexis-Martin, B. (9 December 2016) The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it? The Independent.Alexis-Martin, B. (31 October 2016) Colorado’s survivalists hunker down for the election – and the apocalypse. The Conversation.Alexis-Martin, B. (9 August 2015) Nuclear fallout: the mental health consequences of contaminated places The Guardian.Conferences and EventsSelected Conference Esteem Invited Speaker: The Search For Nuclear Justice. BASIC, APLN. 17th April 2024. Online.Invited Speaker: The Environmental Cost of Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Tests. CND. 14th March 2024. Online.Invited Speaker: Technische Universität Berlin. Disarming Doomsday. 8th December 2023. Online.Invited Speaker: Delivered Civil Society Statement at UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Second Meeting of States Parties 1st December 2023. United Nations, New York.Invited Speaker: “The Legacy of British Nuclear Weapons Colonialism”. Nuclear Information Service. 10th November 2023. Online.Keynote: Nuclear Geographies and Global Issues. Freie Universität Berlin. 28th October 2023.Training Workshop: “The Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Weapons”. International Committee of the Red Cross. Movement Support Group (MSG) for the 2022-2027 Action Plan on the non-use, prohibition, and elimination of nuclear weapons. 14th October 2023. Online.Invited Speaker: UN Office of Disarmament Affairs: Article 6 and 7 of the TPNW. March 2023. Online.Invited Speaker: First Meeting of United Nations Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. June 2022.Plenary: Royal Geographical Society International Conference 2019.Keynote: RGS-IBG Postgraduate Conference 2019.Organiser: Manchester Children’s Peace Day 2019.