I thoroughly enjoy teaching! And I’ve been lucky enough to win a few teaching awards (e.g. BISA’s). I usually teach things like ‘Security Studies’ and ‘American Foreign Policy’, writing a textbook for the former:

I am fortunate to have been able to supervise lots of excellent PhD students, many of whom have gone on to academic and policy careers:

• Cerys Croxen-John – on US foreign policy, masculinity, and counter-terrorism in S. America and the Middle East
• Georgina Taylor – on ontological security and Ukraine/Russia.
• Laura Rose Brown – the effects of gendering nuclear weapons policy
• Charles Gray – a political sociological analysis of the discipline of International Relations
• Waad Arif (completed) – News Framing and Domestication: How CNN and Al-Arabiya, in their English and Arabic online news services, report terror attacks with different kinds of perpetrators – Assistant Professor at King Saud
• Harry Swinhoe (completed) – Islamic State’s construction of strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy – Lecturer at Exeter and now Nottingham
• Natalie James (completed) – An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Experience of the Prevent Duty in Further Education – Research Fellow at York
• Ryan O’Connor (completed) – Discourses of Intervention: An Analysis of Multiple Sites of Production and Their Contribution to the Legitimacy of Action – Senior Lecturer at BCU
• Ben Fermor (completed) – The changing discourse of American foreign policy: Identity construction in Barack Obama’s Middle Eastern Policy – was Associate Lecturer at York
• Will Mace (completed) – Resilient Civic Republicanism – works in local government (Surrey)
• Ciaran Gillespie (completed) – Aid & the ouroborus : US foreign military assistance and human security in Pakistan – Lecturer at Surrey
• Samantha Cooke (completed) – Politics, power and matrimony : understanding women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran – was Lecturer at LJMU, now Senior Lecturer at Gloucestershire