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With my PhD students, November 23, 2018

Prospective PhD Students

I am open to supervising projects
  • with a historical approach to IR and which focus on (some aspect of) the evolution of the international system and the modern state, especially if the focus is on non-Western regions; 
  • focused on the relationship between foreign policy, social status, stigmatisation, ontological security, historical trauma, collective memory etc.; 
  • conceptualising some aspect of hierarchies in world politics;
  • that aim to develop non-Eurocentric genealogies and/or histories of modern concepts such as sovereignty, state, nationalism, terrorism etc.​
Due to the high volume of inquiries I receive (and also for reasons of fairness), I am unable to give specific feedback on pre-submission application materials (including research proposals). If you think your research interests match mine, feel free to name me as a potential supervisor in your application. Prior contact with me has no bearing on the chances of success of your application. I interview all applicants I am considering for PhD supervision, but only after they pass the initial admissions committee screening.

Current PhD students (As primary)

 COL. WILL STRICKLAND (EXPECTED FINISH 2023)
JaNE DARBY MENTON (EXPECTED FINISH 2022)
Thesis Title: Narrating Foreign Affairs: Elites, the Press, and the Public in the New Digital Age
Second Supervisor: Prof David Runciman
​​MARIE PRUM (EXPECTED FINISH 2021)
Thesis: The Identity Politics of Sovereignty
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Prof. Duncan Bell
Dept: POLIS
LIANG CE [ANYA LIANG] (EXPECTED FINISH 2021)
Thesis: Glorious Past, Vulnerable Present:  Great Powers Re-emergence in International Politics
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Prof. Jason Sharman
Dept: POLIS
HAKAN SANDAL (EXPECTED FINISH 2020)
​Thesis: The Kurdish LGBT Movement: Survival Under Colonial Practices
Start Date: 2016
Second Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox
Dept: Centre for Gender Studies
​LUCAS DE OLIVEIRA PAES (EXPECTED FINISH 2020)
Thesis: Networked Hierarchies: Readdressing the Regional-Global Nexus in International Politics​
Start Date: 2017
Second Supervisor: Dr Mark Shirk
Dept: POLIS

Former PhD Students (As primary)

JAAKKO HEISKANEN (2016-2020)
Thesis Title: The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Structural Transformation of the International Order
Placement: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. POLIS, University of Cambridge
​DYLAN LOH (2015-2019)
​Thesis title: "Diplomacy in the Making: A Practice-Based Account of China’s Foreign Ministry in the Field of Diplomacy"
Placement: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
PEERA CHAROENVATTANAKUL (2014-2018)
​Thesis title: "Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand’s Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War".  
Placement: Lectureship at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.