Team

The Centre’s research team are listed below.

Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches our team study all aspects of conflict and security. If you are interested in studying with us or collaborating on a research project please do get in touch with us. Any media enquiries please use the contact details.

Leadership team

Co-director

Research interests:

  • Dynamics of intra-state conflicts
  • Peace processes and peace settlements
  • Statehood
  • Sovereignty

Co-director

Research interests:

  • The relationship between domestic politics and state behaviour in the international system

Deputy director

Research interests:

  • Political transitions
  • Post-conflict development
  • Politics of armed liberation movements and political parties 
  • Legacies and politics of mass atrocities

Centre members

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • International relations
  • Foreign Policy
  • Area studies

Professor

Research interests:

  • Protection and rights by Afghan and Iraqi military interpreters and other Locally Employed Civilians

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Dynamics of intra-state conflict
  • Political methodology

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Middle Eastern politics
  • Conflict and conflict resolution (particularly in the context of post-war recovery and peace building)

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Spatial agency, and spaces of peace and conflict in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Post-conflict studies and divided cities

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Sexual and gender-based violence in military and conflict spaces

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • The changing role of discretion within algorithmic-led decision-making in security contexts

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • International Relations
  • Political Sociology
  • Latin American Politics

Senior Lecturer (International Security)

Research interests:

  • Global politics of nuclear weapons
  • Nuclear disarmament

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Contentious politics and social movements
  • Civil war
  • Computational social sciences
  • Ethnography
  • Middle East

Professor

Research interests:

  • Decentralisation
  • Parties and electoral politics
  • Gender and politics
  • Gender and conflict
  • Southeast Asia

Research interests:

  • Civil war
  • Social mobilisation
  • Ex-combatant Reintegration
  • Civilian Protection Norms and Practices
  • Fieldwork Methods and Ethics

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Minority resistance and responses to mass atrocities
  • Trajectories of illiberal peace: continuity, change, collapse
  • Illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia

Centre member

Research interests:

  • Authoritarianism and illiberalism
  • Policing and security
  • Political violence; state and non-state violent actors
  • Gender and politics
  • Research ethics and their regulation

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Family, Intimacy and Borders
  • Migration Studies and Colonialism
  • Borders and the Afterlife of Colonial Control
  • Eco-Bordering

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Civil war
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Transitional justice
  • Decoloniality
  • Transitional justice
  • Arts-based research methods

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Contemporary just war theory
  • Global ethics (particularly in relation to environmental issues and migration)
  • Contemporary political theory (such as the literatures on political obligation)

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Moderation and radicalisation of non-state armed groups (including how states respond to threats)

Associate members

Professor of Global Literature (Department of English and Related Literature)

Research interests:

  • Contemporary South Asian literature written in English
  • Literary representations of British Muslims

Kajsa Dinneson

Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor (Department of Environment and Geography)

Research interests:

  • Resilient Food systems
  • Reimagining Approaches to Water and Waste

Lecturer (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology)

Research interests:

  • Intergroup relations, prejudice and discrimination
  • Impression formation, social categorization, and stereotyping
  • Social identity complexity and identity integration
  • Values and morality
  • Cross-cultural research and open science collaborations

Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Response (Department of Health Sciences)

Research interests:

  • Disaster and conflict affected communities 
  • Ethics

Reader

Research interests:

  • Global health

Postgraduate researchers

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Exploring trajectories of groups' mobilisation and behaviour among Islamist radical movements in Malaysia

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Neutrality of Omani Foreign Policy

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Effectiveness of the Economic Sanctions in Nuclear Non-proliferation

Research interests:

  • Current and new models of public diplomacy

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Internal dynamics of non-state armed organizations, rebel fragmentation and cohesion, and peace processes

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Why Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have not been able to resolve existing problems with each other so far

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Why violence prevails: Understanding jihadism in Kashmir

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Exploring perplexities of Capacity Development Initiatives in Post-Conflict Countries: Examining Afghanistan’s civil aviation sector.

Ms Maria Hellborg

Postgraduate researcher

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • China and ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative: A Post-Structuralist Reading

Mr Mamoon Khawar

Postgraduate researcher

Research interests:

  • Understanding the Role of Warlords in Post-War State-Building: The Role of Warlords in Afghanistan's Post-2001 State-Building Process.