Academic Staff

Selected Research Publications

• 2024; Duriesmith, D., Kiefer, M., McMullin, J.R., Messerschmidt, M., and Quest, H., ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Researching Masculinities during Peace Processes,’ Peacebuilding, 12(4), 449–462.
• 2024; McMullin, J.R., ‘Good Ones and Bad Ones: Gendered Distortions and Aspirations in Research with Conflict-Affected Youth in Liberia,’ Peacebuilding, 12(4), 575–599, first author with Deimah Kpar-Kyne McCrownsey and James Suah Shilue.
• 2024; McMullin, J.R. and Pauls, E., ‘Audio-Visual Media: Documentary Filmmaking,’ in Stacey L. Connaughton and Stefanie Pukallus (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication (Routledge), 301–310.
• 2022; McMullin, J.R., ‘“What Is the Benefit of this Project?” Representation and Participation in Research on Conflict-affected Youth,’Conflict, Security & Development, 22(5), 517–541.
• 2022; McMullin, J.R., ‘Hustling, Cycling, Peacebuilding: Narrating Reintegration through Livelihood in Liberia,’ Review of International Studies, 48(1), 67–90.
• 2021; McMullin, J.R., ‘Decent and Indecent Exposures: Naked Veterans and Militarized (Counter-)Violences after War,’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 23(1), 27–57.
• 2019; McMullin, J.R., Liberia: Legacies of Peace. Documentary film series.
• 2013; McMullin, J.R., Ex-combatants and the Post-conflict State: Challenges of Reintegration, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (Rethinking Political Violence Series).

Research Interests

• Qualitative research methods, field research, and ethics in vulnerable settings
• Ex-combatant disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
• Veterans’ politics and post-war welfare policy
• Youth livelihood, social movements, and political participation
• Resistance and protest movements after war
• Documentary filmmaking and peace research

Selected Research Publications

• 2025; Ardila, C., ‘Against victory: decolonising justice after war,’ (E-pub ahead of print), Millennium: Journal of International Studies, OnlineFirst, 25.
• 2025; Ardila, C., ‘Epistemic democracy and political reconciliation,’ Res Publica.
• 2022; Ardila, C., ‘Christopher Finlay, Is Just War Possible?‘ Journal of Moral Philosophy 19(1), 99-102.

Research Interests

• Critical approaches to international political theory and international law
• Human rights and transitional justice
• Decolonial studies and pluriversal politics
• Democratic theories and political reconciliation

Selected Research Publications

• 2025; Barnes, N., Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press).
• 2022; Barnes, N., ‘The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro,’ Comparative Political Studies (OnlineFirst). Supplementary appendix can be found here.
• 2021; Barnes, N., Poets, D. and Stephenson, Jr., M. O. (eds), Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Publishing). Online virtual exhibition can be seen here.
• 2021; Barnes, N., ‘The Global Comparative Study of Gangs and Other Non-State Armed Groups,’ In E. Erez & P. Ibarra (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press).
• 2020; Albarracín, J. & Barnes, N., ‘Criminal Violence in Latin America,’ Latin American Research Review 55(2), 397-406. Co-authored with Juan Albarracín.
• 2017; Barnes, N., ‘Criminal Politics: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Organized Crime, Politics, and Violence,’ Perspectives on Politics 15(4), 967-987.
• 2016; Arias, E.D. and Barnes, N., ‘Crime and plural orders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,’ Current Sociology 65(3), 448-465.

Research Interests

• Visual arts and community change
• The intersection of criminal and political violence
• The origins and evolution of organized criminal groups
• Criminal governance
• Police militarization in Brazil/Latin America
• Ethnography and the ethics of fieldwork

Selected Research Publications

• 2025; Collins, Y.A. et al, ‘‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers,’ Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8(3), 955-977.
• 2024; Collins, Y.A., Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (University of California Press).
• 2022; Collins, Y. A., ‘The extractive embrace: shifting expectations of conservation and extraction in the Guiana Shield,’ Environmental Politics 31(4), 706-728.
• 2022; Collins, Y. A., ‘Guyana in the Eye of the Storm in 2021: Convergence, Stasis and Reverberation,’ Revista de Ciencia Política 42(2).

Research Interests

• Qualitative Research Methods
• Climate Change
• International Environmental Policy and Governance
• Voluminous Environments and Atmospheres
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Colonial Histories

Selected Research Publications

• Dyzenhaus, A. (Forthcoming), ‘The More Things Change: Race, Segregation and Land Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa,’ World Politics.
• 2025; Dyzenhaus, A. and Holmes C., ‘Negotiating the Boundaries of Farmerhood: Class, Race and Identity in the new rural South Africa,’ Politics, Groups and Identities.
• 2024; Dyzenhaus, A., ‘Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector,’ Comparative Politics 57(1). 
• 2024; Pruett, L., Dyzenhaus, A., Karim, S., and Freeman, D., ‘Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia,’ Journal of Peace Research 62(2). 
• 2022; Biz, H., Panin, A., Wellman, E., Blair, G., Pruett, L., Opalo, K., Alarian, H., Grossman, A., Tan, Y., Dyzenhaus, A., and Owsley, N., ‘RCTs in the Global South: Assessing Risks, Localizing Benefits, and Addressing Positionality,’ PS: Political Science and Politics 42(2). 
• 2021; Dyzenhaus, A., ‘Patronage or Policy? The Politics of Property Rights Formalization in Kenya,’ World Development 146. 

Research Interests

• Political economy of land
• African politics
• Race
• Redistribution
• Elections

Selected Research Publications

• 2023; Fierke, K.M. and Mackay, N., ‘The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief and Collective Agreements not to Know,’ International Relations. 
• 2023; Fierke, K.M., ‘Perspective Chapter: Experiments in Entangled Time,’ in: Baker, O.K. (Ed.), Quantum Entanglement and High Energy Physics, IntechOpen.
• 2022; Fierke, K.M. and Mackay, N., ‘Those Who Left/Are Left Behind: Schrodinger’s Refugee and the Ethics of Complementarity,’ Global Studies Quarterly.
• 2022; Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World (Bristol University Press). 
• 2020; Fierke, K.M. and Mackay, N., ‘To ‘See’ is to Break an Entanglement: Quantum Measurement, Trauma and Security,’ for DerDerian, J. and Wendt, A. (Eds.), special issue on Quantizing IR, Security Dialogue.

Funded Research

•  ‘Mapping the Empire: The Contemporary Legacy of Historical Trauma and Forced Displacement,’ July 2020- December 2023 (£343,928), funded by the Human Family Unity Foundation 

Research Interests

• Constructivism
• Historical Trauma 
• Memory and Political Violence 
• Emotions and Empire
• Quantum Social Theory and Asian Philosophy

Selected Research Publications

• 2023; ‘Entry, access, bans and returns. Reflections on positionality in field research on Central Asia’s ethnic minorities,’ In Uddin, N. and Paul, A., (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork (Sage).
• 2022: Development aid and domestic regional inequality: the case of Myanmar. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2022 (with Achim Kemmerling).
• 2022: Krym. Rossiya…Navsegda? Critical Junctures, Critical Antecedents, and the Paths Not Taken in the Making of Crimea’s Annexation. Nationalities Papers, 2022 (with Margaryta Rymarenko).
• 2022: Myanmar’s Mulsim communities unbound: the Rohingya and beyond. In Nasir Uddibn, eds, The Rohingya crisis: human rights issues, policy issues and burdeen sharing, Sage.
• 2022: The post-Soviet Koreans. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2022.
• 2022: The next swing of the pendulum? Cross-border aid and shifting aid paradigms in post-coup Myanmar. EUI RSC PP, 08, 2022

Research Interests

• Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar, Laos, Bangladesh)    
• Arts and conflict transformation
• Social movements and resistance under authoritarian rule
• Ethnic minorities and mobilisation
• Development aid
• Higher education and peace-building
• Central Asia and the South Caucasus

Selected Publications

• 2003; Gethins, S., Saferworld, The Caucasus:Armed and Divided – Small Arms and Light Weapons proliferation and humanitarian consequences in the Caucasus, Report Conclusion, ‘An opportunity for progress.’
• 2003; Gethins, S., Saferworld, Tackling small arms and light weapons proliferation in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia: the view from Government.
• 2013; Gethins, S., ‘Westminster trouble over Scots and EU polls,‘ Scotsman, 7 February 2013.
• 2015; Gethins, S., ‘PrimeMinister has not made the case for war, bombing could pro-long the conflict,’ Herald, 29 November 2015.
• 2016; Gethins, S., ‘The EU has an impact on us all,‘ Herald, 7 February 2016.
• 2016; Gethins, S., ‘Russia is big – it’s what a Common EU Foreign Policy was built for,‘ The National, 31 May 2016.
• 2016; Gethins, S., ‘Scotland will do all it can to stay in the EU,‘ The iPaper, 24 June 2016.
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘Scotland seeks a Life Raft in Brexit’s stormy seas,’ The European Parliament Magazine, 17 February 2017.
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘Can Scotland act as a bridge between the UK and EU?‘ The European Parliament Magazine, 21 March 2017.
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘Let’s celebrate the 60^th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome,‘ The Times, 21 March 2017.
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘Scotland’s MPs can work together to ensure our place in the Single Market,‘ The National, 7 August 2017. 
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘MPs need to take a new approach over Brexit – an argument for consensus in politics,‘ The Observer, 10 September 2017.
• 2017; Gethins, S., ‘If Northern Ireland can have a Special status then so can Scotland,‘ The Times, 7 December 2017.
• 2018; Gethins, S., ‘As we mark St Andrews day let’s unlock Scotland’s foreign policy potential,‘ The National, 2 December 2018.
• 2018; Gethins, S., ‘Stephen Gethins’ Debate on Scotland’s Foreign Policy Footprint,’ Hansard, 3 December 2018.
• 2019; Gethins, S., ‘An Independent Scotland will be a Bridge to Europe for whatisleft of the UK,‘ The National, 2 June 2019.
• 2019; Gethins, S., ‘UK Arms export guidelines are not working,‘ The House Magazine, 24 June 2019.
• 2019; Gethins, S., ‘All the promises of the Brexiteers have turned to dust,‘ The Sunday Post, 8 September 2019.
• 2019; Gethins, S., ‘Here’s how you can say no to Boris andyesto Europe,‘ Scotsman, 16 July 2019.
• 2019; Gethins, S., ‘We must bring British children trapped in Syrian camps home before it is too late,‘ The House Magazine, 28 October 2019.
• 2020; Gethins, S., ‘How Scotland can honour the legacy of heroic nurses like Louisa Jordan,‘ The National, 21 April 2020.
• 2020; Gethins, S., ‘Why is Scotland not using its clout on the Global Stage?‘ The National, 28 April 2020.
• 2021; Gethins, S., Nation to Nation: Scotland’s Place in the World (Edinburgh: Luath Press).

Research Interests

• Political decision making processes in foreign policy
• Scotland’s foreign policy footprint and its role in conflict resolution
• The role of devolution in peacebuilding

Selected Publications

• 2024; Goozee, H., & Fey, J., ‘Mapping “global mental health”: histories, practices, and research,’ in L. Ned, M. Rivas Velarde, S. Singh, L. Swartz, & K. Soldatić (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of disability and global health (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group), 293-306. 
• 2022; Redwood, H., & Goozee, H., ‘Shifting accounts of justice: the legalisation and politicisation of international criminal justice,’ Social & Legal Studies, 31(4), 623-643. 
• 2021; Goozee, H., ‘Decolonizing trauma with Frantz Fanon,’ International Political Sociology, 15(1), 102-120. 

Research Interests

• Trauma and violence
• Justice and healing 
• The politics of medicalisation
• Decolonial and feminist approaches 
• Ethics and reflexivity in research

Selected Publications

• 2025; Giri, K., War through an intersectional lens: female combatants and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, Oxford studies in gender and international relations (Oxford University Press).
• 2023; Giri, K., ‘Rebel governance of marriage and sexuality: an intersectional approach,’ International Studies Quarterly, 67(2), Article sqad028. 
• 2021; Giri, K., ‘Do all women combatants experience war and peace uniformly? Intersectionality and women combatants,’ Global Studies Quarterly, 1(2). 
• 2024; Giri, K., Cueva, A.R.B. Hamilton, C., & Shepherd, L., ‘A decolonial feminist politics of fieldwork: centering community, reflexivity, and loving accountability,” International Studies Review, 26(1). 

Research Interests

• Intimacy and violent politics
• Rebel governance of intimacy
• Intersectionality and social justice in armed conflict, climate change, and migration
• Gender and war
• Emotions and International Relations
• Justice and ethics in digital governance and artificial intelligence

Selected Publications

• 2024; Aponte González, A. F., Hirschel-Burns, D., & Uribe, A. D., ‘Contestation, governance, and the production of violence against civilians: Coercive political order in rural Colombia,’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(4), 616-641.
• 2021; Hirschel-Burns, D., ‘Sowing the Seeds: Why do some armed groups socialise civilians more than others during civil war?‘ Civil Wars, 23(4), 545-569.

Research Interests

• Rebel governance and rebel justice provision
• Civil war
• The drug trade
• Latin American politics
• Qualitative and mixed methods

Selected Research Publications

• Krystalli, R., ‘The gifts of attention: Love, place, and watching the forest breathe,’ Global Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.
• 2025; Krystalli, R., ‘The poetry of ambivalence: A nudge towards tending,’ In: Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change, edited by Akwugo Emejulu, Marlies Kustatscher, and Callum McGregor (Bristol University Press).
• 2024; Krystalli, R., Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question (Oxford University Press).
• 2024; Barthwal-Datta, M., Krystalli, M., & Shepherd, L., ‘Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in thew world politics classroom,’ Journal of International Political Theory.
• 2023; Krystalli, R., ‘Teaching and learning reflexivity in the world politics classroom,’ International Political Sociology 17(4), 1-17.
• 2022; Krystalli, R. & Schulz, P., ‘Taking love and care seriously: An emergent research agenda for remaking worlds in the wake of violence,’ International Studies Review 24(1), 1-25.

Research Interests

• Attention
• Love and care in the face of loss
• Flourishing
• Narrative and storytelling in the study of politics

Selected Research Publications

• Forthcoming; Mills, L. and Gentry, C., ‘Messy Security: Aesthetics, Disorientation, Discomfort,’ Critical Studies on Security.
• Forthcoming; Post-9/11 US Cultural Diplomacy: The Impossibility of Cosmopolitanism, Routledge New International Relations Book Series (London: Routledge)
• 2023; Mills, L., ‘“These uniforms have been places.” From combat to paper to exchange: a CMS research encounter,’ in Cree, A. (Ed.), Creative Methods in Military Studies (Rowman & Littlefield.), 77-98.
• 2023; Mills, L., “Facing Torture through Art and the Afterlives of War: Behind the Mask” in R. Cox, R., Donnelly F., & Lang, Jr., A. (Eds.), Contesting Torture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge), 139-164.
• 2022; Mills, L. and Cole, L.C., ‘Unravelling the threads of war and conflict: Introduction,’ Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations 3(1), 1–6 (Open Access).  
• 2022; Mills, L., Jamalullail, S.S., Bacic, R., & Cole, L.C., ‘International Relations and/as Thread-work: A Dialogue on Threads, War, and Conflict,’ Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations, 3(1), 7-23 (Open Access).
• 2021; Mills, L., ‘Personal photographic encounters of/with the pandemic’s pathological politics,’ Critical Studies on Security, 9(2), 155-168 (Open Access).
• 2021; Mills, L., “Managing Uncertainty: the everyday global politics of post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy” in Surowiec, P., & Manor, I., (Eds.), Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy), 277-303.
• 2020; Mills, L., ‘Empire, emotion, exchange: (dis)orienting encounters of/with post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy,’ Cultural Studies 34(5), 763-788.

Research Interests

• Creative and innovative methods/pedagogies
• Everyday life and global politics
• Cultural and public diplomacy
• Critical military studies, notably military/veteran afterlives
• Aesthetics of/in international relations

Selected Research Publications

• 2021; Peter, M. and Osland, K.M., ‘UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches,’ Contemporary Security Policy 42(2), 197-210.
• 2020; Peter, M., ‘The road to Darfur: ethical and practical challenges of embedded research in areas of open conflict,’ in Bliesemann de Guevara, B. and Bøås. M. (Eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts (Bristol: Bristol University Press), 185-99.
• 2019; Peter, M. and de Coning, C. (Eds.), United Nations peace operations in a changing global order (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
• 2019; Peter, M. and Osland, K.M, ‘The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: Implementation and perception of The EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo,’ European Security, online first.
• 2017; Peter, M. and Strazzari, F., ‘Securitisation of research: Fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali,’ Third World Quarterly 38(7), 1531–50.
• 2016; Peter, M. and Strazzari, F., ‘Securitisation of research: fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali,’ Third World Quarterly, published online 21 December 2016.
• 2016; Peter, M., ‘Legitimnost in relevantnost: Prihodnost mirovnih operacij Organizacije Združenih Narodov,’ Teorija in praksa 53(3), 676–693. (Legitimacy and relevance: The future of the United Nations peace operations).

Research Interests

• IR theory (critical and constructivist approaches, international political sociology)
• Global governance and international organisations
• Peace operations and peacebuilding
• The politics of international law

Selected Research Publications

• Forthcoming 2025; ‘Remote Warfare and the Global Order,’ In Oxford Handbook of Remote Warfare (edited by Theo Farrell and Jai Galliott).
• Forthcoming; Rossi, N. and Riemann, M. (Eds.), ‘Introducing Security Studies: An Applied Introduction,’ in Security Studies an Applied Introduction.
• 2023; Rossi, N., ‘A True Crime Story: The Role of Space, Time, and Identity in Narrating Criminal Authority,’ European Journal of International Security, 1–19.
• 2023: Bashovski, M. and Rossi, N., ‘Introduction: Political Subjectivity in Times of Crisis,’ Globalizations.
• 2023: Rossi, N., ‘Populism without a people: neoliberal populism and the rise of the Italian far right,’ Journal of Political Ideologies.
• 2022: Rossi, N. and Riemann, M., ‘From subject to project: crisis and the transformation of subjectivity in the armed forces,’ Globalizations.
• 2021: Rossi, N. and Riemann, M., ‘The Perils of Public Health based approaches to Conflict Resolution,’ Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 33(4).

Research Interests

• Political Subjectivity
• The intersection of Violence and Political Authority
• Discourse Analysis and Narratives
• Militarisation, militarism, and exceptionalism
• Critical Pedagogy
• Education, emotions and conflict resolution

Selected Research Publications

• 2025; Saunders, N., ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights,’ In Espiritu, Y.L. (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies.
• 2025; Saunders, N., ‘Security, Digital border Control Technologies, and Immigration Admissions: Challenges of and to Non-Discrimination, Liberty and Equality,’ European Journal of Political Theory 24(2), 155-175.
• 2025; Saunders, N., ‘The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Petra Molnar,’ Border Criminologies, 24 January 2025.
• 2024; Saunders, N., ‘Moving Beyond Settlement: On the need for normative reflection on the global management of migration through data,’ Journal of Global Ethics 19(3), 282-293.
• 2024; Saunders, N. and Sager, A., ‘Ethics of Border Controls in a Digital Age,’ Journal of Global Ethics 19(3): 273-281.
• 2023; Saunders, N., ‘Torture in a Land of Safety? Slow Violence and Immigration in the UK,’ In Lang, T., Donnelly, F., and Cox, R. (Eds.), Contesting Torture (London: Routledge).
• 2022; Saunders, N. and Al-Om, T., ‘Slow Resistance: Resisting the Slow Violence of Asylum,’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies 50(2): 524-547.
• 2022; Saunders, N., ‘Clamouring for Legal Protection, by Robert F. Barsky,’ Border Criminologies, 9 September 2022. 
• 2020; Saunders, N., ‘Time, Migration, and Forced Immobility: Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, by Inka Stock,’ Refuge 36(3), 78-79.
• 2020; Saunders, N., ‘International Law: Its Promise and Limits,’ In Gratton, P. and Soysal, Y. (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt (London: Bloomsbury Academic). 
• 2019; Saunders, N.E.G., and Hayden, P., Solidarity at the margins: Arendt, refugees, and the inclusive politics of world-making,’ in Hiruta, K. (Ed.,), Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Philosophers in Depth), 171-199.
• 2018; Saunders, N.E.G., ‘Beyond asylum claims: refugee protest, responsibility, and Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,’ The International Journal of Human Rights 22(7), 847-868.
• 2017; Saunders, N., International political theory and the refugee problem (London: Routledge, research on the global politics of migration series).
• 2017; Donnelly, F. & Saunders, N.E.G., The Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016: rallying around which flag?, Blog, 10 Mar 2017, Open Democracy.

Research Interests

• Conceptualisations of, and questions about, political responsibility, social justice, political subjectivity, and ‘decolonising’ political theory
• Issues of forced migration, human rights, and citizenship

Selected Research Publications

• 2025; Shwaikh, M., ‘Permissibility of Violence in Israeli Prisons,’ in Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
• 2025; Hasan, N., ‘I Bequeath Life to You, for We Die without Life Knowing Us”—Nima Hasan Writing from the Ends of the Homeland‘, compiled and edited by Rania Jawad and translated by Malaka Shwaikh. Translated from English into Slovenian by Gabriela Babnik.
• 2025; Shwaikh, M., ‘Education is Resistance,’ London Review of Books.
• 2025; Shwaikh, M., ‘Beyond Gaza Ceasefire: Towards Supporting Education and Mental Health,’ Security in Action.
• 2024;Shwaikh, M., ‘Against Resilience,’ London Review of Books.
• 2023; Shwaikh, M. & Gould, R.R., Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective, International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict, Available to download here.
• 2022; Shwaikh, M., ‘Prison Periods: Bodily Resistance to Gendered Control,’ Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Available to download here. 
• 2021; Mulubale, S. & Shwaikh, M., ‘Unequal to the Task of Transitional Justice: The Fractured Justice System of the International Criminal Court,’ Social and Legal Studies.
• 2020; Shwaikh, M. & Gould, R., Prison Hunger Strikes as Civil Resistance: A Global Perspective on Political Resistance in Prisons, Monograph, International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC Press).
• 2020; Shwaikh, M. & Gould, R.R., ‘The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom: Intertwined Stories from the Frontlines of UK-Based Palestine Activism,’ Biograph An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (Hawaii University Press).
• 2018; Shwaikh, M., ‘The Dynamics of Prison-Based Hunger Strikes,’ Jerusalem Quarterly 75, 78-90.
• 2016; Shwaikh, M. & Martijn, V.G., ‘Fighting without Weapons: Palestinian Documentary Films and Acts of Resistance,’ Asian Affairs, 47(3), 443-464.
• 2016; Shwaikh, M., ‘The Role of International Law in World Politics,’ Cambridge International Law Journal, online entry.

Research Interests

• Academic freedom
• The politics and international relations of the ‘Middle East’
• Peacebuilding from decolonial, critical theoretical and feminist perspectives
• Prison hunger strikes: necropolitics and necroresistance
• Critical approach(es) to (civil) resistance

Welcomes inquiries from potential PhD students with research interests in:

• Prisons
• Hunger strikes
• Palestine

Biography

Ruth leads the University Mediation Service and is an accredited Mediation trainer. Ruth teaches the mediation component on the MLitt/MPhil in Peacebuilding and Mediation. As well as being a practising mediator, Ruth has recently joined the Board of Directors of Scottish Mediation. Ruth is also an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and maintains her private practice. Ruth is an assessor with Student Minds Mental Health Charter and has reviewed other related services in her previous role as Deputy Director of Student Services and as Chair of the University Equally Safe and the Mental Health Task Force. Ruth enjoys researching the skills that comprise mediation; negotiation, communication, interpersonal effectiveness, problem solving, evidence-based wisdom, personal resilience and emotional regulation.