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.

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

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

Feminist theory
Modern slavery
Trafficking
Theories of property in slavery (past and present) and in feminist theory and practice

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 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