Dr Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard (she/her)

Appointed in 2024, Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard is a Lecturer in Sustainable Management at the University of Exeter, Business School. She is a graduate in Law, and holds a MSc and a PhD in Environmental & Climate Change Law from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Lívia joined the Business School in 2022 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, to work in the ESF-funded project “Accelerating Circular Skills for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly” (ARCA), where she was responsible for the business engagement with local SMEs to understand their needs and struggles, as well as the skills required, to implement circular principles. Since 2024, she is appointed as Lecturer in Sustainable Management, teaching on the MSc Sustainable Business Management, BSc Business and BA History and Business courses on the Penryn campus in Cornwall.

Interests:

• Climate and environmental justice
• Practices and politics of repair
• Transformative social innovation
• Intersectionality

My research interests revolve around intersectional environmentalism and transformative social innovation, e.g., the potential for system change of social innovations framed as a movement towards sustainability. In this context, I’m also interested in understanding their potential to challenge or exacerbate inequalities, through a lens of intersectionality.

I am a member of the Exeter Centre for Environmental Law and the “Daughters of Themis” International Network of Women Business Scholars.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in Law (LLB)
• MSc in Environmental & Climate Change Law
• PhD in Environmental & Climate Change Law
• AFHEA