by Vicky Man | 8th July 2026
Thesis Title: World Order Thinking: A History of International Thought since 1968. Thesis Abstract: This thesis is a cultural history of international thought in the late twentieth century. It examines how the major social transformations of the 1960s reshaped...
by Vicky Man | 21st February 2025
Thesis Title: La Strage di Cutro: Narrating From and With the Wake Abstract: This project situates the 2023 Strage di Cutro, the drowning of 94 forced migrants in their attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Calabria, Southern Italy, within global...
by Liisa Matomaki | 30th November 2023
Thesis Title: What are the experiences of children from the Kosovo Conflict 1998-1999 and can they transcend beyond the classic narrative of children solely as war victims? Abstract: According to Save the Children, in 2018, 1 in 6 children were more at risk from...
by Liisa Matomaki | 24th November 2023
Thesis Title: Living with Killing: The Taliban, Trauma, and the Consequences of Extreme Violence Abstract: This project will look at how the Taliban live with the psychosocial consequences of the extreme violence they perpetrated and endured during their 2001-2021...
by Vicky Man | 12th December 2022
Thesis Title: Silence and the Politics of Performativity: Engaging with the Choreography of Silence Doing Things in the Context of UK Peace Politics Abstract: Luke’s work focuses on how we understand an aporia within democratic accounts of political participation and...
by admin | 8th December 2022
Thesis Title: On Politics and Justice: British Military Justice following War Crimes Allegations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001-Present Abstract: Though the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2011-2021) often bring to mind heroic images of weary soldiers...
by admin | 4th August 2022
Thesis title: Contesting the preventive state? Toward the socio-genesis of counter-radicalisation expertise Abstract: How did some social workers and civil servants in parts of northern Europe gain recognition as experts in investigating and reversing the trajectories...
by admin | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Between Politics and Law: The Question of the European female Islamic State returnees Abstract: First supervisor: Vivienne Jabri Pathway:11 -Global Order, Violence & Security Practice Cohort: 2021-22
by Liisa Matomaki | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: The Matter of Difference: Exploring the affective embodiment of differential ontology in walls Abstract: This project exploits the contradiction of walls. They epitomise fixed physicality yet maintain fluidity in their meaning. A wall might be solid to...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: The Homeless and the Human in International Relations Abstract: This research will interrogate the idea of ‘home’ and its relationship with the ‘human’ in contemporary international relations theory. It will make new contributions to the debates on...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Tracing the nexus between trauma and technology in the modern understanding of political violence Abstract: The origins and effects of trauma are not only intertwined with technological developments in the 19th century, but trauma is disseminated through...
