Politics and International Relations staff

Dr David Brenner

David Brenner is Lecturer in International Relations. His research explores the politics of conflict, security and development.

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.

Dr Will Davies

Will Davies is a political economist with interests in neoliberalism, history of economics and economic sociology.

Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso

Jasna has written on various aspects of Yugoslav history and politics and is currently working on the politics of memory and transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav region.

Professor Michael Dutton

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

Dr Elizabeth Evans

Elizabeth's research centres around gender and politics, exploring the interaction between gender, feminist activism.

Dr Simon Griffiths

Simon writes teaches and researches British politics and public policy, providing commentary for radio and press.

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 Rachel Ibreck

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

Dr Maria N Ivanova

Maria’s research interests are theories of money and finance, crisis theories and 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.

Professor Carl Levy

Carl has published on modern Italian politics and history; and policymaking and regulation within the European Union.

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 public speech, argument, and their effects on subjectivity.

Dr Johnna Montgomerie

Johnna’s interests are household debt’s relationship to Anglo-American financialisation in the new age of austerity.

Dr Andrea Mura

Andrea focusses on economy, religion and citizenship, with reference to psychoanalysis and the work of Jacques Lacan.

Professor Saul Newman

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

Andreas Panayides

Dr Rajyashree Pandey

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

John Reardon

John Reardon is artist in residence in the Politics Department where he supports all practice-based work on the MA Art & Politics course.

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 Derek Wall

Derek’s research is focussed on radical political economy, green politics and social movement theory.