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 hypirpgr@le.ac.uk.
| Student | Title | |
| Anwar Afhim | arka2@ | Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-related asylum claims: a queer critique of UK Home Office practices |
| Salado Ahmed | ss889@ | The gendered impact of the EU’s securitised migration policies: A case study of Greece. |
| Deden Alfathimy | dhaa1@ | Space Policy in the Global Space Age |
| Sana Amin | sa792@ | 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. |
| Gaverne Bennett | gb319@ | Collective memory and the Politics of Commemorating Blackness in the UK, 1981-2021. |
| Christopher Bullock | crb29@ | A Cultural Approach to Intelligence Theory: Understanding China’s Intelligence Behaviour. |
| Samuel Canter | sc791@ | Strategies of Offset: The United States Approach to Military Competition Against Nuclear Powers. |
| Cindy Cao | cpyc1@ | Cambodia post 2017: A challenge to Normative Power Europe? |
| Ludovica Castelli | lc477@ | Metamorphosing Nuclear Futures: The case of the Nuclear Domino Metaphor in the US proliferation discourse. |
| Bright Chimedza | btc12@ | Electoral preferences in regions in which genocide has taken place. |
| Bee Damara | bd179@ | Defining freedoms: Survivor Activists' Perspectives on the Relationship between Human Trafficking and Colonialism in South Africa. |
| Anuradha Damale-Day | ard28@ | Responsibility in Outer Space Space: Why hasn't it been realised? |
| Sarah Dunn | scgd1@ | Russian Anti-Satellite Weapons: Analysing Russian Military Strategy Through Weapons Development and Testing |
| Rabih Fayad | rf210@ | Research around the significance of humanitarian negotiation in enabling durable humanitarian programming in conflict and post-conflict settings |
| Osinimu Femi-Adedayo | oofa3@ | Post Violent Conflict and Social Injustice: The Weaponisation of Females in North East and Niger Delta Regions of Nigeria |
| Samer Frangieh | sf284@ | What form of economic opportunities and social cohesion policies and initiatives could support the integration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon? |
| Rachael Griffiths | radg1@ | 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? |
| Tim Jones | tpj8@ | Normative political theory and/or versus migrant activism: challenging migration management failures |
| Shama Junejo | spj16@ | Who Governs Pakistan: A Case Study of Military Ethics to Identify the Driving Factors of Pakistani Military's Political Interventionism into Socio-Political Structure of Pakistan |
| Belo Kabara | bsk14@ | 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 | syk19@ | The Affective Othering of ‘Low Skilled’ East and Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in the United Kingdom |
| Tarun Krishnakumar | tk336@ | Law in intelligence and intelligence in Law: (Re)framing the Law-Intelligence relationship. |
| Nadia Laouini | nl209@ | 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 | ccm22@ | 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 | agn7@ | Africa-EU Migration, Mobility and Employment Partnership (MMEP)’s impact on migration and mobility in the African continent |
| Martin Nthakomwa | mpkn1@ | (Re)casting the notion ‘Home’: Refugee hosting spaces in East Africa and Leicester –United Kingdom. |
| Faith Obot | faeo1@ | Femicide in Nigeria |
| Jack O'Doherty | jwod1@ | Shadow of Intent: A Comparative Assessment of American Nuclear Counterforce Strategy and Viability |
| Foteini Panagiotopoulou | fp74@ | Migrant organizational networking, cooperation and political action in Europe. |
| Susana Pickett | sp659@ | The Moral Theory and Practice of Veganism. |
| Aurora Pompei | ap955@ | NATO nuclear policy in the post-Cold War era. |
| Saloni Pradhan | sp884@ | Hindu Nationalism and Populist Internationalism |
| Peter Rautenbach | pjmr1@ | The effects of AI decision support on nuclear escalation: An examination using synthetic data generation, experimental, and wargaming methods. |
| Nickolas Schenk | nms22@ | The Moral Right to Citizenship: A Theory of Just Membership for Non- citizen Stateless Persons. |
| Katie Titherington | kmt25@ | The Psychology Around the United States Nuclear Weapons Program in WWII. |
| Hashim Wahdatyar | mhw11@ | 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? |
| Kate Zotova | kz103@ | Everyday nonviolent resistance in active war zones, a case study of Ukraine and Gaza. |