Ms Pauline Deutz
Salford Business School
Current positions
Professor
Biography
Pauline joined Salford Business School as Professor of Circular Economy and Sustainability in Sept 2025. Previously, she was in the School of Environmental Sciences/Department of Geography at the University of Hull since 2000. During her time at Hull, she led and/or participated in projects including 'Cresting' (Circular Economy: Sustainability implications and guiding progress: EU Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network Grant 2018-2021); Evolving a Circular Plastics Economy (EPSRC); THYME: Connection Capacity Fund (Research England); Research Recovery and Remediation of Alkaline Wastes (NERC, ESRC, DEFRA).
Active in the International Sustainable Development Research Society since 2005, Pauline is the co-chair of the Circular Economy and Employment and Good Work tracks. She served on the Board from 2008-2022, including terms as Vice President, President and Past President.
Pauline also taught at all levels across the undergraduate and masters programmes, focusing on sustainability issues but also human geography and skills modules (including field work). She has held a range of roles including Interim Head of School, Director of Studies, Programme Director (BA Geography and MSc Environmental Technology) and Director of Postgraduate Research. In the latter capacity, she was Hull's academic lead for Hull for the White Rose ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
Areas of Research
Pauline’s research fundamentally relates to sustainability: the coordination of environmental, economic and social priorities, with consideration of the perspectives and relationships between different stakeholders and how these are influenced by their geographic content and spatial relationships. Primarily, she has worked on resource-related issues and initiatives under the headings of industrial economy, industrial symbiosis and more recently circular economy and bioeconomy. These are all examples of sustainability economies i.e., policy concepts promoted by governmental bodies and others as routes to generate economic growth through highlighting the potential of a particular technical or organisational approach with a claim to environmental benefits. Pauline is interested in the contradictions inherent in these concepts and their application, particularly in terms of the spatial and social influences and distribution of outcomes. Much of her work has been collaborative, including multi/inter/transdisciplinary projects across a range of social, natural and engineering disciplines.
Pauline is interested in supervising PhD or masters thesis on topics including:
Place-based circular economy or other social-environmental initiatives
Policy design for circular economy
Social implications and influences on circular economy
Stakeholder collaborations for a circular economy
Qualifications
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Higher Education
2012 - 2013 -
Geology
1989 - 1997 -
Geography
1987 - 1989 -
Geography
1983 - 1986