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Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin

Lecturer

Area
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
b.alexis-martin@bradford.ac.uk
Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin
35 publications
2 awards

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. 

Teaching

Modules

  • Environment, Trafficking and Crime: Transnational Issues and International Governance - PES7062-B
  • Social-Ecological Systems and Crises: Concepts, Cases, Contestations - PES7065-B

Professional activities

  • Shaw Power 100: Most Influential People with Disabilities in Britain (1 May 2022)
  • L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize (1 August 2020)

  • Royal Geographical Society, Fellow
  • Advance HE, Fellow
  • Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, Fellow

Publications

  • Disarming Doomsday The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons Since Hiroshima

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2019)

  • Nuclear Geography and Nuclear Issues

    Becky Alexis-Martin;Jonathan Turnbull;Luke Bennett;Matthew Bolton;Dunlop Gair;Thom Davies;Gair Dunlop;Dimity Hawkins;Rebecca Hogue;Philippa Holloway;Stephanie Malin;Talei Mangioni;Chloe Mayoux;Gwyn McClelland;Teva Meyer;Elin o'Hara Slavick;Linda Ross (2021)

  • Youth, Climate and Environmentalism

    Benjamin Bowman;Karen Bell;Becky Alexis-Martin;Karen Bell (2021)

  • Arsenic

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)

  • Ginkgo

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)

  • Rocky Flats and Environmental Health: Contested Illnesses & Contended Spaces

    Becky Alexis-Martin;Stephanie Malin;Carol Jensen (2020)

  • Nuclear Warfare and Weather (Im)Mobilities: From Mushroom Clouds to Fallout

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)

  • Radium

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)

  • Atomic Hol(e)y Spaces: Exploring Death and Worship in Los Alamos

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2019) https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/advancing-peace-geographies/.

  • Beyond nuclear geographies: Exploring the entangled afterlives of para-nuclear waste

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2019)

  • Trump is looking to restart nuclear tests for the first time in 28 years, and we should all be worried

    Becky Alexis-Martin The Independent.

  • The devastating atomic history of Christmas Island

    Becky Alexis-Martin The Independent.

  • Fallout

    Hannah Dean;Becky Alexis-Martin;Susan Boniface (2021)

  • The story of women scarred in Hiroshima reminds us the threat of nuclear war has never gone away

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) The Independent.

  • The atomic history of Kiritimati – a tiny island where humanity realised its most lethal potential

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2019) The Conversation.

  • Climate crisis: migration cannot be the only option for people living on ‘drowning’ islands

    Becky Alexis-Martin;James Dyke;Jonothan Turnbull;Stephanie Malin (2019) The Conversation.

  • Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows

    Becky Alexis-Martin (2018) The Conversation.