I am an Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and teach across a range of modules within the School of Society and Culture. My research interests, broadly defined, lie at the intersection of international security and human rights, and include a particular concern with the range of political, legal, and ethical issues surrounding the prevention of mass atrocities (genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity).

There are three main strands to my current research. The first is a book project and related articles that build on previous doctoral work at the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, assessing how the principle of RtoP has been used to address peacetime atrocity crimes in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) since 2005.

The second strand of research involves a series of articles building on previous work in the NGO sector, examining how UK atrocity prevention policy and related protection commitments are integrated across the government's various early warning, development, defence, and diplomatic activities.

The third strand is a longer-term book project that offers a revisionist account of the negotiating history around the Responsibility to Protect and its ultimate adoption at the UN World Summit in 2005. This draws on newly released archival material and interviews with key individuals involved in the debates around RtoP and humanitarian intervention between 1999 and 2005.

• PIR4001: Democracy and Democratisation (module leader)
• PIR4002: Discovering World Politics (module leader)
• PIR5002: Global Governance and the United Nations (module leader)