Postgraduate research
Politics and International Relations
Governments, Parties, Parliaments and Public Opinion
- The European Union and British Politics
- Public opinion of foreign policy issues in Britain
- Religion and Politics in Britain
- Politics of Memory
- Politics of Memoir and Life-Writing
- Politics of Northern Ireland and Legacies of Conflict
- Politics of Left-wing Memory
- The Centre Right in Britain, particularly the Conservative Party and UKIP
- British Politics and European Integration, particularly Euroscepticism
- Public opinion regarding immigrants and immigration in Europe and Britain
- Political trust
- Public opinion regarding the European Union
- Turkish (domestic) politics
- Politics in Southern Europe
- US Social Policy
- US Party Politics
- The Clinton Presidency
- The George W Bush Presidency
- US Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War
- The European Parliament
- The Westminster Parliament
- Comparative Legislatures, particularly Committees and Parties in Legislatures
- Eurosceptic Political Parties
International Relations. Intelligence and Security Studies
- International Relations Theory
- Theories of conflict and cooperation in International Relations
- Trust, empathy, and emotions in international politics
- Foreign policy analysis
- Politics of nuclear weapons
- Concepts and ethics of political violence and nonviolence
- Protests and civil disobedience
- Feminist movements
- Latin American conflicts and resistance movements
- Feminist Political Ideas
- Theories of violence and nonviolence
- Peace and pacifism
- Nonviolent action/civil resistance
- Cosmopolitanism
- Feminist theories of peace and violence
- Migration, migration governance and racialisation within UK and EU migration management practices.
- Criminalisation of migration and of migrant groups.
- Humanitarian governance; migrant sea rescue in the Mediterranean and elsewhere.
- Otherness and othering, especially with regard to liminal figures in societies, eg undocumented migrants; the stateless; the homeless; and with the way such figures define the understanding of subjectivity and territory of estrangement between inside and outside of communities, states and beyond.
- Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Deterrence, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation
- Contemporary US Foreign and Security Policy
- Strategic Studies
- Diplomatic History
- Critical approaches to global health
- Disability studies
- Feminist and queer IR theory
- Biopolitics
- Technoscience and biomedicine
- Politics of identity, violence, and representation in global politics.
- ‘Just wars’; how has war become intimately linked to human rights in the post-Cold War era?
- How have liberal states sought to normalise and legitimise war in humanitarian terms?
- The politics of scandals in a so-called ‘age of outrage’. What are the possibilities and limits of scandals as an instrument of transparency and accountability? How do scandals offer unique opportunities to better understand the composition, character and function of power, norms and values in global politics.
- Secrecy and state violence
- Race and racial thinking in security and intelligence (historical and contemporary)
- Sound and listening in international politics/sociology
- Post/colonial lineages of counter-terrorism
- Security (Theory and Practices), Sovereignty, Agency, and Intervention after the Cold War
- Changing Theorisation of War and Conflict in the Developing World
- The Yugoslav Break-Up and Wars
- Britain’s war powers
- War, democracy and authority
- Africa
- Conflict (nonviolence and violence)
- Natural resources
- Inequalities
- Gender
- Development
- Vernacular security
- Decolonial participatory methodologies
- Citizenship
- Refugees
- Fragile states
- Statelessness
- Broader fields of human rights and global ethics.
- Intelligence
- Counterinsurgency, low intensity conflict and military interventions
- The private security industry (private security companies and/or private military companies)
- International security
- Internal state security
Feminism, Global Ethics and Political Theory
- Feminist theory
- Modern slavery
- Trafficking
- Theories of property in slavery (past and present) and in feminist theory and practice
- Animal rights/animal ethics
- Ethics of activism and protest
- Philosophy of veganism
- Political philosophy in the broad analytic tradition
- Liberal theories of justice
- Concepts and ethics of political violence and nonviolence
- Protests and civil disobedience
- Feminist movements
- Latin American conflicts and resistance movements
- Feminist Political Ideas
- Theories of violence and nonviolence
- Peace and pacifism
- Nonviolent action/civil resistance
- Cosmopolitanism
- Feminist theories of peace and violence
- Migration, migration governance and racialisation within UK and EU migration management practices.
- Criminalisation of migration and of migrant groups.
- Humanitarian governance; migrant sea rescue in the Mediterranean and elsewhere.
- Otherness and othering, especially with regard to liminal figures in societies, eg undocumented migrants; the stateless; the homeless; and with the way such figures define the understanding of subjectivity and territory of estrangement between inside and outside of communities, states and beyond.
- Ethics and International Political Theory
- Politics of Memory
- Politics of Memoir and Life-Writing
- Politics of Northern Ireland and Legacies of Conflict
- Politics of Left-wing Memory
- Politics of identity, violence, and representation in global politics.
- ‘Just wars’; how has war become intimately linked to human rights in the post-Cold War era?
- How have liberal states sought to normalise and legitimise war in humanitarian terms?
- The politics of scandals in a so-called ‘age of outrage’. What are the possibilities and limits of scandals as an instrument of transparency and accountability? How do scandals offer unique opportunities to better understand the composition, character and function of power, norms and values in global politics.
- Secrecy and state violence
- Race and racial thinking in security and intelligence (historical and contemporary)
- Sound and listening in international politics/sociology
- Post/colonial lineages of counter-terrorism
- Africa
- Conflict (nonviolence and violence)
- Natural resources
- Inequalities
- Gender
- Development
- Vernacular security
- Decolonial participatory methodologies
- Citizenship
- Refugees
- Fragile states
- Statelessness
- Broader fields of human rights and global ethics.
- Political Thinkers in the Global South
- Global Political Thought/Comparative Political Theory
- South Asian Political Thought
- Race, Caste and Political Theory
- Political Emotion