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 the commission of peacetime atrocity crimes in North Korea over the last two decades.

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

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

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