Academic Staff

Dr Jaremey R. McMullin, CPCS Director (Core Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Camilo Ardila Arevalo (Core Affiliate)
Associate Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Nicholas Barnes (Core Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Ariadne Collins (Core Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer in International Environmental Politics

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Selected Research Publications

Research Interests

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

Dr Alex Dyzenhaus (Core Affiliate)
Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

Research Interests

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

Prof Karin M. Fierke (Core Affiliate)
Professor of International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Matteo Fumagalli (Core Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer in International Relations 

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Hannah Goozee (Core Affiliate)
Associate Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Publications

Research Interests

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

Dr Keshab Giri (Core Affiliate)
Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Publications

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

Dr Daniel Hirschel-Burns
Associate Lecturer in Security and Conflict in Policy and Practice

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Selected Publications

Research Interests

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

Prof Alice König
Director of the Visualising War Project and the Ancient Peace Studies Network

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Selected Publications

  • 2026; König, A.R. ‘From Repetition to Rewriting: young people’s dialogic engagement with Remembrance culture’; book chapter in J.M. Beier & J. Tabak (Eds) Militarisms in the Lifeworlds of Children, Manchester University Press
  • 2026; König, A., R. Sutton & J. Tabak (Eds), ‘The Adult Gaze: Looking Again and Children and Young People in Peace and Conflict,’ Journal of International Political Sociology 20(13).
  • 2025; Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres, A.R. König & N. Wiater (Eds) (Routledge). 
  • 2025; König, A.R. ‘(Inter)visualising War; an Introduction’, in A.R. König & N. Wiater (Eds), Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres, Routledge, 1-29. 
  • 2025; König, A.R. ‘War Stories are World-Building: Tracing the Feedback Loop between Narrative and Reality, from antiquity to today,’ in A.R. König & N. Wiater (Eds), Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres (Routledge), 244-67. 
  • 2024; König, A.R. ‘Teaching Classics as an Applied Subject,’ Journal of Classics Teaching 25(49), 8-16.
  • 2024; L. da Giau, O. Meden, M. Ryan & A.R. König, ‘The Visualising Peace Project: youth-led education,’ Association for Citizenship TeachingJournal 59, 52-55. 
  • 2023; F. Consiglio, A.R. König & J. Oberholzter, ‘Visualising Peace: a virtual museum,’ E-International Relations.
  • The Visualising War and Peace Podcast: https://visualisingwar.buzzsprout.com/.

Research Interests

  • Narratives/discourses of conflict
  • Peace storytelling & peace imaginaries
  • Peace education/literacy
  • Critical, empirical and speculative fiction as research method
  • Young voices on peace and conflict 

Dr Roxani Krystalli (Core Affiliate)
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

Research Interests

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

Dr Laura Mills
Lecturer in International Relations       

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Mateja Peter
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Norma Rossi (Core Affiliate)
Associate Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Natasha Saunders
Lecturer in International Relations

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Malaka Shwaikh (Core Affiliate)
Lecturer in Peace & Conflict Studies
Coordinator, MLitt/MPhil Peacebuilding and Mediation

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Selected Research Publications

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

Dr Emilia Ziosi
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Selected Research Publications

Research Interests

  • Illegal trade
  • Organised crime entrenchment in the legal economy
  • Relation between state actors and armed non-state actors
  • Latin American politics
  • Social order
  • Qualitative and mixed methods