Dr Ian Chapman, PhD
- Senior Lecturer in Business and Economics
- Department of Business, Law, Policing and Social Science
- Business

- Email: ian.chapman@cumbria.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1524 590800
- Location: Lancaster
Qualifications and memberships
PhD, Interdisciplinary, Lancaster University, 2012
MA Creative Writing, St Martin's College, 2006
MA International Studies, University of Wolverhampton, 2002
MLTA, MLTB, Plas-T-Brenin, 2000
PGCE, University of Wolverhampton, 1991
BA Economics, University of Wolverhampton, 1989
Academic and research interests
Global Macroeconomics; Strategy. Creativity in business
Peak Oil, Energy Economics and The End of Globalisation
US culture and politics as seen through film
Noir fiction and the US economy
Research supervision
Kieran J. Steuart. The relevance of social class, communications and general location in contemporary British Labour Party Politics, with a focus on North-West Cumbria. Completed in 2017.
Leander Bindewald. An Analytical Account of Money as a Discursive Institution in Light of the Practice of Complementary Currencies. Completed in 2018.
Simon Taylor. A study to understand how Social Housing Providers (SHPs) manage the conflict between market forces and addressing social needs. Ongoing.
Martin Fowler. Making Political Art Works. Ongoing.
Publications
2018 The Four Horsemen of Economic Collapse, Economic Theory for the Anthropocene, 3rd July, University of Surrey
2017 Elvis Presley, Donald Trump and the Death of the American Dream, Research and Innovation Conference, 7th July, University of Cumbria, Lancaster
2016 From Star Wars to the Dark Ages, International De-growth Conference, September 1st-5th, Budapest
2016 All Downhill from here: Oil Prices and Resource Depletion, Guest Lecture, 18th May, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester
2015 Britain in the twenty-second century: the future really is medieval, Research and Enterprise Conference, 3rdJuly, University of Cumbria, Lancaster
2014 The End of Peak Oil? Why this topic is still relevant despite recent denials, Energy Policy, Vol. 64, pp 93-101
2011 'The End of globalisation, Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference, University of Salford, Manchester, 8-9 June
2009 The revolution in reading: are paper-based books a thing of the past? Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, Department of English studies, University of Stirling, 29-30 May