Staff in the Department of Politics and International Relations

Dr Bernadette Buckley

Bernadette is interested in the complex relationships between art, war and terrorism.

Francisco Carballo

Francisco addresses Latin American politics from below, decolonial and postcolonial theory and rough politics.

Professor Will Davies

My research looks at how expert knowledge is deployed politically in neoliberal societies.

Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso

Memory politics and transitional justice; nationalism; history and politics of the Balkans

Dr Sahil Dutta

Sahil's research focuses on financialisation, money, managerialism, and British political economy.

Professor Michael Dutton

Michael’s work circles his principal intellectual interest, social theory, and his principal geographic archive, China.

Professor Elizabeth Evans

Elizabeth works on issues related to feminism, disability, representation, parties, social movements and politics.

Dr Simon Griffiths

Simon teaches, writes about, and comments on, contemporary British politics, the history of political thought in the UK, and public policy.

Dr Paul Gunn

Paul’s work looks at political complexity, error, and ignorance, and the institutional mechanisms available in contemporary political economy that can address these problems.

Dr Carla Ibled

Carla's research focuses on neoliberal discourses, psychoanalytical theory, critical theory and cultural studies

Dr Rachel Ibreck

Rachel’s research centres on the human rights, justice, conflict and civil society, principally in Africa.

Dr Maria N Ivanova

Maria Ivanova’s research interests include social theory and political economy, theories of money and finance, crisis theories, international and comparative political economy, and the political economy of the United States.

Dr Jeremy Larkins

Jeremy’s primary research area is in the cultural and intellectual history of international political theory.

Dr David L Martin

David’s expertise is in the fields of postcolonial theory, cultural geography, medical humanities and the history of religion.

Professor James Martin

James Martin is a political theorist with interests in philosophy and ideologies

Dr Andrea Mura

Andrea has research interests in continental philosophy, comparative political thought and psychoanalysis

Professor Saul Newman

Saul explores issues of sovereignty, legal theory, post-anarchism, and human rights and statelessness.

Andreas Panayides

Andreas is Lecturer in Political Theory with a research focus on contemporary analytical political philosophy and theories of social justice

Professor Rajyashree Pandey

Rajyashree examines the categories of woman, body and gender in context of medieval Japanese literature and Buddhism.

Dr Peter Rees

Peter Rees is a political theorist and postdoctoral researcher focusing on migration, citizenship and rights.

Dr. Ekaterina Rozanova

Ekaterina teaches international relations and researches soft power, culture, and security.

Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Eskandar's research focuses the contemporary politics and modern history of the Middle East.

Professor Sanjay Seth

Sanjay has published on modern Indian history, political and social theory, and postcolonial theory.

Dr Nick Taylor

Nick is a political economist with interests in the history of the welfare state and history of economic thought.

Dr Martina Tazzioli

Martina Tazzioli is a reader in Politics & Technology. Her research focuses on migration governmentality and its contestations, collective subjects, border security and the datafication of mobility.

Jessica Ussher