Outer Space Policy, Politics and Law
I’m looking forward to speaking at this event, with a theme this year of “Public / Private”. I’ll be on a panel discussing access and ownership of space. The programme which covers Saturday and Sunday is incredibly diverse, taking in films, walks, food, music, and much more. It will also...
A friend/ colleague gave me a ‘heads up’ about this event… billed as “An intergalactic festival of music, science, arts, culture and the exploration of space”. A self-proclaimed ‘geeky festival’, hooray! From the Bluedot website: “Bluedot with OVO Energy is an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep...
Yours truly will be speaking! New Scientist Live is marketed as “The World’s Most Exciting Festival of Ideas”, held in London over the weekend of 28 September to 1 October at ExCel London. I just got distracted in realising that Margaret Atwood will be there! Note to self: casually approach Margaret...
I am so incredibly flattered to have been one of the subjects interviewed for this project by the artist Aleksandra Mir. The project is called Space Tapestry, and there are three main events (chapters) to it: Space Tapestry: Earth Observation & Human Spaceflight, Modern Art Oxford, 2017 24 June – 12 November...
As many will know, our colleague and friend Molly Macauley was killed on 8 July, whilst walking her dogs near her home in Baltimore. The journal Space Policy, of which I am privileged to be Editor in Chief, released an emotional and respectful Special Issue commemorating Dr Macauley and her work....
I’ll be amongst those speaking at this one day conference at the Royal Aeronautical Society on Wednesday 19 October 2016. You can read the Conference PDF or Register for this event Near Earth Asteroids ~ Opportunity or catastrophe? In the past decade there have been a number of Near Earth Objects...
Hello all, from Burma (Myanmar), where I am catching up on a bit of work before I head out to do the Circle Line train around Yangon (Rangoon). Gender and space issues rolled into one topic: brilliant. This is a BBC World Service programme for The Documentary, available to listen...
It is with tears that I offer my sadness at the death of Molly Macauley Colleague Role Model Mentor Friend It pains me to even type this, but apparently she was stabbed to death last Friday 9 July 2016 whilst walking her dogs in a Baltimore Park. Professor Macauley was...
From the Assuring Access to Space event website: 13 July 2016, 9:00 to 17:00 RUSI Whitehall assuring_access_to_space_draft_programme.pdf We are on the cusp of a new space era. New technology poised to make dramatic changes to how and why we use space, and with increasing competition both in military and commercial...
I can’t wait to attend this event, it looks brilliant! Details from the Above and Beyond website “Experience what space flight is really like and glimpse into its future in our new family-friendly, interactive exhibition Above and Beyond, now open at the National Maritime Museum.” Watch the Above and Beyond trailer...
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She is a frequent presence in the global media (print, radio, television, documentary) and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy and is on the Board of Directors of METI International. She is one of an elite number of people to be endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Margaret Mead Award Lecture by the British Science Association in recognition of her cutting edge research. She is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. She has a sub-specialism in women, peace and security and gender based violence (GBM).
