• 1.-11. juni 2015 external lecturer at Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research Beijing, Kina, teaching in "Climate Change Politics and Governance in China"

• Political Sociology of Governance and Sustainable Management in the West Nordic Region

• Science, Economics and Politics of Sustainability, Climate, and Environment

• Governance and Sustainable Management in the Faroe Islands

• West Nordic Geopolitics from a Faroese Perspective

• Global governance, climate change, energy, risk society, Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, science-policy-society relationship, ecological economics, sustainable development, green growth, Bourdieu in International Relations, community of practice, social movements, New Institutionalism, theories of power, rhetoric, narrative, frame analysis, transdisciplinarity, Arctic and Nordic, China, Japan, Korea, and EU.

• Blaxekjær, L. (Forthcoming). New practices and narratives of environmental diplomacy, In. Gustavo Sosa-Nunez and Ed Atkins, Environment, Climate Change and International Relations, E-IR publications. 127-142. Online open access at www.e-ir.info

• Blaxekjær, L. (Forthcoming). The emergence and spread of green growth. Environmental Politics (Volume, number, and old_pages not available).

• Blaxekjær, L. (Forthcoming). Diplomatic Learning and Trust. How the Cartagena Dialogue Brought UN Climate Negotiations Back on Track. Global Environmental Politics. (Volume, number, and old_pages not available).

• Blaxekjær, L. (2015). Korea as Green Middle Power: Green Growth Strategic Action in the Field of Global Environmental Governance. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Published online 29 November 2015.

• Blaxekjær, L. and Nielsen, T.D. 2014. Narrative Positions of New Political Groups under the UNFCCC. Climate Policy. Published online 17 October 2014. 

Lau’s research examines different forms of global climate politics - as structures and practices - either within the UNFCCC or between states and non-state actors. The project is a contribution to the recent research agenda termed "Bourdieu in International Politics". This agenda has yet to develop a specific framework on language as practice, which this research specifically aims to do. This is done through a combination of different theoretical concepts from fraiming, narrative studies, and rhetoric with the Bourdieusian relational ontology at the centre. The project is particullary intereseted in how narratives, framing and rhetoric have both ideational and material expressions.

• Jan 2014-Aug 2017    Project manager: Green Growth Dialogue. Purpose is to establish a new research network, strengthen green growth dialogue and policy development in the West Nordic region, and strengthen collaboration between West Nordic universities and Canadian research communities. The project is partly funded by NORA (Nordic Atlantic Cooperation).

• Jan-Oct 2015    Project leader: Building Bridges with the African Group of Negotiators. Commissioned by Nordic Council of Ministers working group on UN climate negotiations (NOAK). Collaboration between five researchers from Sweden, Norway, UK, and the Faroe Islands.

• Apr-Nov 2014    Project member: Policy analysis of The Like-Minded Developing Countries in Climate Change, a new negotiation group in UN climate negotiations, Commissioned by Nordic Council of Ministers working group on UN climate negotiations (NOAK). Collaboration between seven researchers from Sweden, Norway, USA, China, and Denmark.

• 2011-2014    Fieldwork at COP17-20, South Africa, Qatar, Poland, Peru and negotiations in Bonn, June 2014. Conducted interviews with several delegations, experts, practitioners. Specifically followed negotiations on post-2015 agreement. Collected material on negotiations and also green growth. Networking. Academic Result: Three academic papers and two policy reports.

• Oct 2014    Fieldwork, Global Green Growth Forum 2014, Copenhagen. Conducted interviews and collected materials.

• June 2013    Co-organised panel on green growth in Asia at Asian Dynamics Initiative’s 5th International Conference: \'Growth: Critical Perspectives from Asia\'. University of Copenhagen.

• 2012-2013    Co-editor of special issue on global climate change.

• Sep-Dec 2012    Developed Master’s course (with Prof. Jens Hoff) on climate change politics from global to local level, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• 2012    Supervised Master’s thesis on City of Copenhagen as Green Growth Actor (Grade: 10).

• 2011-2012    Elected member and vice-chair of the Department PhD Committee and Board of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Member of the Academic Board on PhD Education, University of Copenhagen.

• Nov 2011    Fieldwork, EU Commission and Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. Interviews and conference participation. Networking.

• Oct 2011    Fieldwork, Global Green Growth Forum 2011, Copenhagen. Conducted interviews and collected materials.

• 2011-    Co-founder and President (Vice-president since 2013), Danish Research Network on Climate Politics.

• 2011-    Member of Steering Committee, Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen.

• 2011    Supervised Master’s thesis on Role of Ideas in Danish Climate Politics (Grade: 10).

• 2008-2011    As Head of Section, Ministry of Science, I was project manager on several projects: Committee on digitisation of university exams; International conference on IT and innovative learning environments; The National Food Forum (Det Nationale Fødevareforum). I also participated in other projects: Establishment of Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research; International Evaluation of Danish Universities 2009 (focus on innovation and public-private partnerships).

• 2008    Research assistant on Jørgen Delman & Chen, Nordic Opportunities for Collaboration with China in Energy Research and Innovation, NIAS og Nordisk Energiforskning.

• 2007    Research assistant on Delman, Jørgen & Stig Toft Madsen, Nordic Triple Helix Collaboration on Knowledge, Innovation, and Business Development in China and India, NIAS.

• 2015-2017: Project manager, Green Growth Dialogue.

  Purpose is to establish a new research network, strengthen green growth dialogue and policy development in the West Nordic region, and strengthen collaboration between West Nordic universities and Canadian research communities. The project is partly funded by NORA (Nordic Atlantic Cooperation).

• Project member: Policy analysis of The Like-Minded Developing Countries in Climate Change, a new negotiation group in UN climate negotiations, Commissioned by Nordic Council of Ministers working group on UN climate negotiations (NOAK). Collaboration between seven researchers from Sweden, Norway, USA, China, and Denmark.

• 2015: Project leader, Building Bridges with the African Group of Negotiators. Commmissioned by Nordic Council of Ministers working group on UN climate negotiations (NOAK). Collaboration between five researchers from Sweden, Norway, UK, and the Faroe Islands.

• Blaxekjær, L. (2016). New Practices and Narratives of Environmental Diplomacy, In. Gustavo Sosa-Nunez and Ed Atkins, Environment, Climate Change and International Relations, E-International Relations Publishing, pp. 143-161. Free download: http://www.e-ir.info/2016/04/24/edited-collection-environment-climate-change-and-international-relations/

• Blaxekjær, L. (Forthcoming). The emergence and spread of green growth. Environmental Politics (Volume, number, and pages not available).

• Blaxekjær, L. (Forthcoming). Diplomatic Learning and Trust. How the Cartagena Dialogue Brought UN Climate Negotiations Back on Track. Global Environmental Politics. (Volume, number, and pages not available).

• Blaxekjær, L. (2015). Korea as Green Middle Power: Green Growth Strategic Action in the Field of Global Environmental Governance. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Published online 29 November 2015.

• Blaxekjær, L. and Nielsen, T.D. 2014. Narrative Positions of New Political Groups under the UNFCCC. Climate Policy. Published online 17 October 2014.  

• Blaxekjær, L., Jacobsen, S.G. and Engmann-Jensen, M., (eds.) 2013. International klimapolitik - perspektiver for en global aftale i 2015 (Special Issue on international climate politics). Politik. 16 (3):1-65.

• Blaxekjær, L., Jacobsen, S.G. and Engmann-Jensen, M. 2013. Introduktion. Politik. 16 (3):3-5.

• Skovgaard, J. and Blaxekjær, L. 2013. Global klimapolitik: Fra Bali til Paris (Global climate politics: From Bali to Paris). Politik. 16 (3):7-16.

• Blaxekjær, L. 2011. Book review of Moris, Narelle, 2010, Japan-Bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s, Routlegde. Politik. 14 (2):57-58.

• Blaxekjær, L. and Schlæger, J. 2008. Lean i Japan: New Public Management og Lean i offentlig administration. (Lean in Japan, New Public Management and Lean in Public Administration). Politik, 11 (1):96-104.

• Blaxekjær, L. (Book proposal in review). Third Generation Governance: A New Paradigm for the Anthropocene. 210 pages.

• Blaxekjær, Lau Øfjord (2015). Transscalar governance of climate change: an engaged scholarship approach, Copenhagen: Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, PhD Dissertation 2015/8 

• Name:   Lau Øfjord Blaxekjær

• Date of birth:   31 March 1979

• Adress:   Bóndabrekka 13, 100 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

• Mail:   LauB@setur.fo 

• Phone:   +298 292599 

• Twitter:   @LauBlaxe

Language Skills

• English:    Fluent, TOEFL score equivalent to iBT 115 out of 120.

• Japanese:        Conversational level.

• German:        Conversational level.

• French:        Conversational level.

• Nordic languages:    Danish mother tongue, fluent in Norwegian and Swedish. Learning Faroese.

• Feb 2011-present    PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Expected viva in May 2015.

• Sep-Dec 2013    Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University & McGill School of Environment.

• Aug 2008    MSc Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• Average 11,7.

• Master’s thesis on Japanese politics: 12.

• Six months internship at Embassy of Denmark, Tokyo, Japan.

• Dec 2007    MSc Asian Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

• 2003-2005    Elective study in Japanese Studies, University of Copenhagen.

• Oral and written Japanese.

• Japanese history, culture, and society.

• June 2004    BSc in Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• 2014-2017    Postdoc and Coordinator of Master’s programme in West Nordic Studies, Governance and Sustainable Management, Department of History and Social Sciences, University of the Faroe Islands. Developed programme curriculum and core courses.

• June 2015    Lecturer, Graduate course on China and climate politics, Sino-Danish Centre for Resarch and Education, Beijing, China (with Prof. Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen).

• 2008-2011    Head of Section, Danish University and Property Agency, Danish Ministry of Science.

• 2006-2008    Research Assistant, NIAS, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

• 2007-    Co-founder and co-owner of online merchandise company, Yourdesign I/S.

• 2002-2005    Student counsellor at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• 2000    Elementary school teacher (full time), Eskildstrup Skole, Falster.

• 2014-2016 NORA grants for Green Growth Dialogue workshops: 620,000 DKK

• 2015-2016 University of the Arctic grants for developing West Nordic Studies: 910,000 DKK

• 2015-2017 NordPlus Network for West Nordic Studies: 660,000 DKK

• 2014 Nominated for the Oran R. Young Prize awarded by the Earth System Governance Project and The MIT Press for paper presented at Earth System Governance Conference July 2014.

• 2011 University of Copenhagen Asian Dynamics Initiative Travel Grant: 10,000 DKK.

• 2008 Runner-Up, Best Master’s Thesis 2008, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• 2006 Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation’s Scholarship Grant: 60,000 DKK.

• Misc. grants: 55,000 DKK.

Dissemination og knowledge

• Frequently used guest lecturer, panellist, and commentator (selected performances):

• Keynote speaker for Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ seminar about green growth, 6 October 2014.

• Guest lecturer on global climate governance at University of Massachusetts Amherst, 13 March 2014.

• Panelist at Asian Development Bank’s official launch of Asian Development Outlook 2013, 19 April 2013.

• Climate Change Politics from Global to Local. Master’s course at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Autumn 2012 and Summer course 2014. Developed and taught course together with Prof. Jens Hoff.

• I have developed the following four core courses, which I will be teaching as part of the Master’s program in West Nordic Studies, Governance and Sustainable Management at University of the Faroe Islands.

• Political sociology of governance and sustainable management in the West Nordic region. From autumn 2015.

• Science, economics and politics of sustainability, climate, and environment. From autumn 2015.

• Governance and sustainable management in the Faroe Islands. From autumn 2016.

• West Nordic geopolitics from a Faroese perspective. From autumn 2016.

• Green Growth Dialouge - Intensive Summer School, Nuuk, June 2016

• Green Student-House Project, from Autumn 2016