School of Social and Political Science

Background

Supervisors

Professor Andrew Neal (Politics) Dr. Lotte Buch-Segal (Anthropology)

Research project

My doctoral thesis investigates the effects of terrorism on the formation of victim subjectivities, using the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing as a case study. More broadly, my research interests are concentrated in terrorism, political violence, and critical security studies.

Qualifications

2016 — MA (Hons) International Relations (University of Edinburgh)

• Dissertation: "Individual Mobilisation into Armed Political Movements: The Case of Sinn Féin and the IRA, 1964-1998"

2017 - MLitt Terrorism and Political Violence (University of St. Andrews)

• Dissertation: "Terrorism as Psychological Control in Totalitarian States: State Terrorism in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945"

Tutoring

2019 to present — I have tutored on a range of courses within PIR, including: International Co-operation in Europe and Beyond, Political Thinkers, Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics in a Globalised World, and Introduction to Politics and IR 1A and 1B.