I enjoy teaching and have been lucky enough to win a few teaching awards, e.g.:

• The British International Studies Association-Higher Education Academy Award for Excellence in Teaching International Studies.
• The Vice-Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.

I currently lead two modules: ‘Global Security: Concepts and Debates’ and ‘American Foreign Policy’, as well as contributing teaching to a range of other modules.

I am fortunate to have been able to supervise lots of excellent PhD students, many of whom have gone on to academic and policy careers:

• Georgina Taylor – on ontological security and Ukraine/Russia.
• Laura Rose Brown – the effects of gendering nuclear weapons policy
• Charles Gray – a political sociological analysis of the discipline of International Relations
• Waad Arif (completed) – News Framing and Domestication: How CNN and Al-Arabiya, in their English and Arabic online news services, report terror attacks with different kinds of perpetrators – Assistant Professor at King Saud
• Harry Swinhoe (completed) – Islamic State’s construction of strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy – Lecturer at Exeter
• Natalie James (completed) – An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Experience of the Prevent Duty in Further Education – Research Fellow at York
• Ryan O’Connor (completed) – Discourses of Intervention: An Analysis of Multiple Sites of Production and Their Contribution to the Legitimacy of Action – Senior Lecturer at BCU
• Ben Fermor (completed) – The changing discourse of American foreign policy: Identity construction in Barack Obama’s Middle Eastern Policy – Associate Lecturer at York
• Will Mace (completed) – Resilient Civic Republicanism – works in local government (Surrey)
• Ciaran Gillespie (completed) – Aid & the ouroborus : US foreign military assistance and human security in Pakistan – Lecturer at Surrey
• Samantha Cooke (completed) – Politics, power and matrimony : understanding women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran – Lecturer at LJMU and Senior Lecturer at Gloucestershire