Blanche de Moidrey

I am a postgraduate researcher at the Global Development Institute in the School of Education, Environment, and Development and a research associate with The CareLab. 

My PhD research project, supervised by Dr. Charis Enns and Prof. Tanja Bastia and funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) is a comparative case study of care practices for the more-than-human in Scotland and New Zealand. Ultimately, my research seeks to carve spaces of care for the more-than-human beyond capitalism. I argue for the necessity of moving beyond the harmful dichotomous thinking of humans versus nature, which is fundamental to Western epistemology and essential for the functioning of capitalism, and instead engaging with care. I engage with care ethics from both feminist and Indigenous perspectives, drawing on a relational ontology to explore alternative ways of being and knowing with the more-than-human

I have presented research findings at the BISA PGN conference in Edinburgh (2025), Humanities Seminars at Darwin College, University of Cambridge (2024) and the International Conference for Undergraduate Research (2022).  

I am also a member of the Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) and Power, Inequality, and Activism (PIA) research groups. 

I taught the first-year module 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Development' for the BSc Global Development program in the academic year 2024-2025.

I am available to teach in politics, development studies, and human geography on topics related to climate change, knowledge production, gender, feminist, and Indigenous theories. 

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blanche-de-moidrey-917b86180/