AREAS OF DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

I welcome research proposals from prospective doctoral students in the following areas of international political theory and global politics:

Contemporary international relations theory and critical methodologies of world politics, especially critical theory, feminist theories, post-structuralist ethics and politics.

Political theory, continental philosophy and philosophy of the subject, with special reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

The international political thought of Carl Schmitt, and his interlocutors (inter alia Walter Benjamin, Leo Strauss,  Giorgio Agamben).

Cosmopolitan theories, human rights and debates about universalism and relativism.

The rise of global social movements, theorisations of relations between local and global activism, politics and ethics of civil society in world politics.

 

TEACHING

I have taught the following courses:

 

Undergraduate Level: 

 Life, Power and Resistance: Critical Perspectives on the Post-Westphalian Era (3rd year option, Sussex)
Gender: Rethinking Politics (2nd year core course, Sussex)

The Ethics and Politics of Globalisation (3rd year option, SOAS)

The Structure of International Society (1st year core course, LSE)
Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (3rd year option, LSE)
 

Postgraduate Taught and Research Level:

 

The Ethics and Politics of Globalisation (MA option, Sussex)

International Theory (MA core course, Sussex)

General Diplomatic Studies and Practice (MA core course, SOAS)

International Politics (MSc core course, LSE)

World Politics (Diploma seminar, LSE)

 

 

I have also contributed to the following courses:

Undergraduate Level:  

 

Contemporary International Theory (2nd year core course, Sussex)

Concepts in International Relations (1st year core course, Sussex)


Doctoral Level:    


Research Design in a Cross-Cultural Context (DPhil & MSc core course, Sussex)

Doctoral Students’ Research Methods Seminar (SOAS)