Peter Manning is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. He joined the University of Bath in 2016. He has previously lectured in Sociology at Liverpool Hope University and as a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Pete’s research has explored the connections between human rights, transitional justice, peacebuilding and memory. Pete is now increasingly concerned with the intersections of environmental and ecological issues with these fields.

Pete’s first book, Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia (2017), considered the different ways that memory is implicated in the ongoing prosecutions at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Routlege, Memory Studies: Global Constellations series). Pete was the Principal Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF project "Elephant conservation and indigenous experiences in Cambodia: Shaping environmental awareness through participatory filmmaking with young people" (2019-2021). He has was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF Network Plus Awards "Education Justice and Memory" (2020-2024) and "Changing the Story" (2017-2022). These projects variously explored the opportunities and challenges in the delivery of genocide education, particularly through arts methodologies, and the politics of indigeneity and its intersections with ecological harms in conflict. Pete has also worked on network analysis of transitional justice actors and has a new book that explores the life trajectories and meaning making practices among ex-combatants after Cambodia's civil war that is currently in preparation.

Biographical details correct as of 13.03.26