PhD Affiliates

Research Interests

• State militarisation
• Global South Governance
• Impact of Technology in Security
• Criminalised Governance
• International Organised Crime
• Middle Eastern Studies

Research Interests

• Ethics of Care
• Psychology
• Queer Theory
• Anthrozoology
• Ecosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Phenomenology
• Hermeneutics
• Poststructuralism 

Selected Publications

• Black, G. (2022) “On Historical Worthiness: De-Carlyle-Izing the Academy”. Journal of History of Ideas. https://www.jhiblog.org/2022/04/06/on-historical-worthiness-de-carlyle-izing-the-academy/ 
• Black, G. (2024) “Becoming Contra: An Analysis of Rights of Non-Human Sociopolitical Belonging”. Journal of History of Ideas. https://www.jhiblog.org/2024/04/17/becoming-contra-an-analysis-of-rights-of-non-human-sociopolitical-belonging/ 
• Black, G. (2024) “The Animal Apparatus: Taxonomic Stratification as an Anglo-Imperial Technology”. Green Theory and Praxis Journal, 16 (1), 93-102. http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org/gtpi-volume-16-issue-1-february-2024/ 
• Black, G. (2023) “Therians: An Anthrozoomorphic Scapegoat”. Political Theology Network. https://politicaltheology.com/therians-an-anthrozoomorphic-scapegoat/ 
• Black, G. (2022) “The Statute of Subaltern Statues: Empowering the Decolonization of Academic Decolonization”. Journal of History of Ideas. https://www.jhiblog.org/2022/05/09/the-statute-of-subaltern-statues-empowering-the-decolonization-of-academic-decolonization/ 

Research Interests

• Critical Political Economy of Conflict
• Political (Un)Settlements
• Transnational Business
• New Materialisms
• Horn of Africa

Research Interests

• The intersection of interdisciplinary research on Terrorism Studies and Critical Terrorism Studies.
• Post-structural analysis
• Critical discourse

Selected Conference Participation

• 2022: ‘Beyond the certainties of “Terrorism Studies”: A story of experts, knowledge and clusters’, 14^th Annual Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research, 2022.

Research Interests

• Marginalised groups in conflict-affected environments and peacebuilding
• Everyday resistance, gender and minorities
• Identity
• Displacement and IDP protection

Selected Publications

• 2021: Edgcumbe S, ‘Roma in Iraq and Syria: On the Margins if IDP Protection‘, Researching Internal Displacement, Working Paper No.9, 2 December 2021.
• 2021: Edgcumbe S, ‘Rural Women in the Balkh and Herat Provinces of Afghanistan: Simultaneous Resistance to, and Reproduction of, Patriarchal Power Structures‘, Journal of Resistance Studies, 7(1), 2021, pp10-45.
• 2020: Edgcumbe S: ‘Extremism, Contested Territory and Diversity: An Opportunity for Development of Iraq’s National Policy on Displacement in 2020?‘, The Refugee Law Initiative’s Internal Displacement Research Programme Working Paper Series, Working Paper No.7, June 2020.

Selected Conference Participation

• 2019: ‘Rural Afghan Women as Agents for Change and the Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding’, Conflict Research Society Annual Conference.
• 2022: “Beyond the certainties of ‘Terrorism Studies’: A story of experts, knowledge and clusters”, 14^th Annual Conference of the Society for Terrorism Research, 2022. 
• 2022: ‘The Political Violence of Erasure in Times of Conflict and Peacebuilding’, Postgraduate Research Conference, Queens University Belfast.
• 2022: ‘Addressing Stigmatisation: IDPs Who “Never had Shoes” Require Improved Protection’, Refugee Law Initiative Annual Conference. 

Research Interests

• Peace and conflict studies
• Identity theory
• The use and abuse of history
• Education and conflict resolution in South Asia and the South Caucuses

Research Interests

• Civic and ephemeral texts
• Play as environmental communication strategy
• Political ecology
• Franz Kafka’s short stories
• The role of personal writing in peacebuilding

Selected Publications

• Lemal, N. 2025. ‘Navigating the precarious Anthropocene with Nina Mingya Powles‘, English, Oxford University Press.
• Lemal, N. 2020. ‘Art’s Revenge upon Intellect: Reading Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood beside Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”‘, The Modernist Review.

Research Interests

• Migration, borders, boundaries, and displacement and exile studies
• Social inclusion
• Politics of recognition
• Politics of performance
• Politics of solidarity
• Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Research Interests

• Care
• Third World approaches to conflict
• Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
• Queer peacebuilding

Research Interests

• Ancient war
• Trauma
• The role of socio-political boundaries
• Liminality
• Identity in ancient military interactions
• The role of ‘whiteness’ and the impact of colonial research frameworks in the study of ancient history. 

Selected Publications

• 2022: Mubarak, S. (2022). Review of SOLDIERS AND SILVER: MOBILIZING RESOURCES IN THE AGE OF ROMAN CONQUEST by Michael J. Taylor, 2020. Michigan War Studies Review

Selected Conference Participation

• 2023: Panel Co-organiser with Dr. Jeremy Armstrong: New Directions in Early Roman Warfare at the SCS/AIA Joint Annual Meeting 2023, 5–8 January 2023.
• 2023: ‘The Sieges of Veii and Rome: City Boundaries and Military Trauma’, paper at the SCS/AIA Joint Annual Meeting 2023, 5–8 January 2023.
• 2022: ‘The Plot Thickens: Repatriation and Burial of War-dead in the Mid-Republican Period’, Accepted paper at Dealing with the Dead Conference, 17–18 June 2022, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
• 2022: ‘Montani atque agrestes’? – New Contexts for the Samnites, paper presented at the School of Languages and Cultures/Classics Seminar Series, 21 August 2021, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
• 2021: ‘Classics and its ‘Whiteness’: Colonialism and Systemic Exclusion in the Discipline of Classics and Ancient History’, paper presented at the Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series, 1 June 2021, University of Auckland, NZ.
• 2020: ‘Benefits of Booty: Economic exchange through the Roman Triumph’, paper presented at Exchanging Ideas conference, 3-6 Feb. 2020, University of Auckland, NZ.
• 2020: ‘Investigating institutions: the role of the pomerium in power and organisation in the Roman Republic’, paper presented at ASCS, 28-31 Jan. 2020, University of Otago, NZ.
• 2019: ‘Communication in conquest: Facilitating boundary reassertion and negotiation in Roman Republican Triumphs’, paper presented at the Celtic Conference in Classics, 26 – 29 June 2019, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
• 2018: ‘Platforms and Plunder: the Roman Republican Triumph as a Vehicle for Negotiation’, paper presented at the Day of Papers in Ancient History, 25 Oct. 2018, University of Auckland, NZ.
• 2018: ‘Renegotiating the Road to Glory: an Alternative Approach to the Roman Republican Triumph’, paper presented at Money and the Military in Antiquity conference, 19 Oct. 2018, University of Auckland, NZ.

Research Interests

• Variation in the Receipt of Public Goods and Services
• Comparative Politics 
• Quantitative Methods 
• Mixed Methods  
• Police Studies 
• Protest Dynamics 
• Geospatial Methods 

Selected Publications

• R&R: Political Science (PS), ‘Discussion of Gender and Citations in Submission Guidelines of 102 Political Science Journals’ [withdrawn and submitted to EPS] 
• R&R: European Political Science (EPS), ‘Discussion of Gender and Citations in Submission Guidelines of 102 Political Science Journals’

Selected Conference Participation

• 2023: ‘“The Weight of Too Much Liberty”: A Predictive Spatio-temporal Model of Police Response to Partisanship in England’, European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Glasgow (de facto panel chair)
• 2023: ‘“The Weight of Too Much Liberty”: A Predictive Spatio-temporal Model of Police Response to Partisanship in England’, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, Los Angeles
• 2024: ‘The Effect of Constituency-Level Partisanship on Police Response’, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference, Philadelphia  

Research Interests

• Transnational Revolutionary Violence
• Transnational Non-Violence
• A contemporary ‘English School’ approach to conflict
• Conflict and International Society
• Hermeneutics

Selected Publications

• O’Meara, K. (2022) ‘Understanding the Illegality of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine’, E-International Relations, 13 March. Available at: https://www.e-ir.info/2022/03/13/understanding-the-illegality-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/

Research Interests

• Systematic theology
• Hermeneutics
• Politics and their overlap with one another
• Peace

Selected Publications

• 2023 (forthcoming): ‘An Introduction to Penultimate Hermeneutics’ in Ronald Michener and Mark Lamport (eds.), Handbook on Postconservative Theological Interpretation (Forthcoming in 2023).
• 2023 (forthcoming): Book Review: Lincoln Harvey, Jesus in the Trinity: A Beginner’s Guide to the Theology of Robert Jenson (2020) in Crucible (Forthcoming, 2023).
• 2022: Book Review: Lynn McChlery, ‘How do You Know it’s God? The Theology and Practice of Discerning a Call to Ministry’ in Crucible: The Christian Journal of Christian Ethics (Oct, 2022), 59-61.

Selected Conference Participation

• 2020: ‘A Bonhoefferian Response to the genus maiestaticum and the genus tapeinoticum’, Christ Among the Disciplines, 2020
• 2023: ‘Theology in Practice: A Conversation Between Christoph Schwöbel and Sayyid Qutb’, Christoph Schwöbel: Theology in Conversation, 2023
• 2023: ‘Beyond Polarization: Penultimate Hermeneutics and the Necessity for Dialogue in Polarized Relations’, European Academy of Religion Conference, 2023

Research Interests

• Transnationalism
• Love and intimacy
• Gender and emotions
• Migration