Politics and International Relations at Leicester
Current PhD Students
Browse this list of our current PhD students.
To find out more about undertaking research in Politics and International Relations, visit our research degrees pages or contact [email protected].
| Student | Title | |
| Deden Alfathimy | [email protected] | Space Policy in the Global Space Age |
| Sana Amin | [email protected] | The security paradox of the Arab states: An empirical study of state security activism in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Iraq and its effect on individual and collective violence. |
| Bright Chimedza | [email protected] | Electoral preferences in regions in which genocide has taken place. |
| Bee Damara | [email protected] | Defining freedoms: Survivor Activists' Perspectives on the Relationship between Human Trafficking and Colonialism in South Africa. |
| Anuradha Damale-Day | [email protected] | Responsibility in Outer Space Space: Why hasn't it been realised? |
| Sarah Dunn | [email protected] | Russian Anti-Satellite Weapons: Analysing Russian Military Strategy Through Weapons Development and Testing |
| Rabih Fayad | [email protected] | Research around the significance of humanitarian negotiation in enabling durable humanitarian programming in conflict and post-conflict settings |
| Osinimu Femi-Adedayo | [email protected] | Post Violent Conflict and Social Injustice: The Weaponisation of Females in North East and Niger Delta Regions of Nigeria |
| Samer Frangieh | [email protected] | What form of economic opportunities and social cohesion policies and initiatives could support the integration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon? |
| Rachael Griffiths | [email protected] | An examination of Defence Planning during the period 1998 to 2018: are military capabilities within the equipment plan and the capability planning process still an appropriate methodology; do they help or hinder the realisation of national security policy? |
| Susana Guerro | [email protected] | The Moral Theory and Practice of Veganism |
| Tim Jones | [email protected] | Normative political theory and/or versus migrant activism: challenging migration management failures |
| Belo Kabara | [email protected] | Non-state actors in world politics: An analysis of the incorporation of civilian joint task force in the fight against Boko Haram Insurgency in Borno, Nigeria. |
| Yohan Kim | [email protected] | The Affective Othering of ‘Low Skilled’ East and Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in the United Kingdom |
| Tarun Krishnakumar | [email protected] | Law in intelligence and intelligence in Law: (Re)framing the Law-Intelligence relationship. |
| Nadia Laouini | [email protected] | How guardrails of the US democratic system and tribal politics have been challenged and undermined under the Trump administration with its consequences on US domestic |
| Chidinma Mbaegbu | [email protected] | Women’s Activism in Peacebuilding Processes: A Comparative Study on the Role of Women in the North and the Niger Delta Conflicts in Nigeria |
| Anastasia Nkhalamba | [email protected] | Africa-EU Migration, Mobility and Employment Partnership (MMEP)’s impact on migration and mobility in the African continent |
| Martin Nthakomwa | [email protected] | (Re)casting the notion ‘Home’: Refugee hosting spaces in East Africa and Leicester –United Kingdom. |
| Faith Obot | [email protected] | Femicide in Nigeria |
| Jack O'Doherty | [email protected] | Shadow of Intent: A Comparative Assessment of American Nuclear Counterforce Strategy and Viability |
| Morenike Oyenubi | [email protected] | "Conceptualising Environmental Peace: Exploring Solastalgia Amongst Youth in the Rivers State of the Niger Delta" |
| Aurora Pompei | [email protected] | NATO nuclear policy in the post-Cold War era. |
| Saloni Pradhan | [email protected] | Hindu Nationalism and Populist Internationalism |
| Peter Rautenbach | [email protected] | The effects of AI decision support on nuclear escalation: An examination using synthetic data generation, experimental, and wargaming methods. |
| Gordon Thompson | [email protected] | Enhancing future global pandemic resilience: an analysis of global intra health system polycrisis relationships using the framework of power, agency and trust |
| Katie Titherington | [email protected] | The Psychology Around the United States Nuclear Weapons Program in WWII. |
| Hashim Wahdatyar | [email protected] | How do traditional institutions address the challenges posed by the influence of external factors, such as governmental or non-governmental organizations, in conflict resolution processes within traditional societies? |
| Ryan Walsh | rmw33@@le.ac.uk | The Politics of Remembrance: National Conservative Ideology and the Second World War |
| Kate Zotova | [email protected] | Everyday nonviolent resistance in active war zones, a case study of Ukraine and Gaza. |