PhD Students

Supervisors: Dr Jaremey McMullin and Professor Ali Watson

Research Interests: Peace Interventions in African civil wars, with a specific focus on the impact external actors have on peace sustainability in Sudan and South Sudan. I am also interested in the Postcolonial and Decolonial theories.

Supervisor: Dr Raymond Hinnebusch and Dr Hsinyen Lai

Research Interests: Conflict, wars, Middle East political economy, forced migration and diaspora studies, humanitarian aid and international development in the Arab region.

Supervisors: Dr Malaka Shwaikh and Dr Fiona MacCallum Guiney

Research Interests: Iraq, MENA, Protest, Revolution, Citizenship, Statehood, Power, Critical Discourse Analysis

Supervisors: Professor Rick Fawn and Dr Matteo Fumagalli

Research Interests: I am interested in Black Sea/Eurasia regional issues, alliance formation, interstate competition, Caucasus peace and conflict issues, defence policy, the democracy-security nexus, and Georgian domestic politics.

Supervisors: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou and Dr Fiona McCallum Guiney

Research Interests: Narrative and Storytelling, Political Anthropology, Post-War Reconciliation (Narratives of War), Anthropology of Childhood, Anthropology of the Middle East (Lebanon).

Supervisors: Dr Matteo Fumagalli and Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli

Research Interests: Post-Soviet Union, Eurasia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Authoritarianism and Regional integration.

Supervisors: Professor Raymond Hinnebusch and Dr Jasmine Gani

Research interests: peacebuilding, intra-state conflict, external intervention in civil wars, strategy and strategic culture, Middle East politics and international relations, Russian politics, rising powers, and global power politics.

Supervisors: Dr Fiona McCallum-Guiney and Dr Jeffrey Murer

Research interests: Conflict, Peacebuilding, Marginalisation, Identity, Gender, Displacement, Everyday Resistance, and their intersections.

Supervisors: Professor Raymond Hinnebusch and Dr Antje Brown

Research Interest: Broadly, my interests are: violent non-state actors, fragile states, civil wars, and hydropolitics; more specifically, I am interested in the impact of water on state and non-state actor behaviour, as well as corollary global security issues that arise from water’s
availability, allocation, and instrumentalisation.

Supervisors: Professor Raymond Hinnebusch and Dr Diego Muro

Research Interests: Middle Eastern/Persian Gulf Security Issues, Sectarian Politics, Terrorism, Identity Politics and Psychological Warfare.

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Marsden and Dr Matteo Fumagalli

Research interests: Political and social violence in Central Asia, C/PVE, far-right and ultra-nationalist political movements; disengagement, rehabilitation and re-integration.