Doctoral research

Gender-related PhD research

  • Nancy McLennan, ‘Transnational feminist organising: pathways from protest to policy’
  • Kate Byron, 'A gendered analytic approach to explore the (re)configuration of the human subject in machine learning practices'.
  • Karen Desborough, 'Street sexual harassment of women and grassroots movements against it'
  • Dan Godshaw, '(Im)mobile masculinities at the border: identity, power and personal relations in UK Immigration Removal Centres'
  • Natalie Jester, 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Constructing UK state identity in British media reporting of the conflict in Libya (2011-13)'
  • Rosie Nelson, ‘Bisexuality and the LGBT Social Justice Movement: A Queer Qualitative Exploration of Biphobia and Monosexism’
  • Rosie Walters, 'Connecting the Dots? Young women's participation in the UN Foundation's Girl Up campaign'

PhD alumni

  • Dr Audrey Reeves is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Virginia Tech
  • Dr Elisa Wynne-Hughes is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Cardiff
  • Dr Penny Griffin is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales in Australia
  • Dr Ana Jordan is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lincoln
  • Prof Johanna Kantola is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Tampere in Finland
  • Dr Rosa Malley was previously Special Projects Officer at Hacked Off and currently works for the law firm Mishcon de Reya
  • Dr Christina Rowley is head of International Strategy at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • Dr Laura Shepherd is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of New South Wales in Australia
  • Dr Carole Sparey is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham