I am Lecturer in Diplomacy, Foreign Policy and International Relations Theories, and Programme Director for our MA in Diplomacy (including distance-learning). I am specialised in naval affairs, maritime security and maritime geopolitics, as well as in European security and the geopolitical actorness of the EU.

My research interests cover the maritime dimension of the European Union; maritime security (including counter-piracy, counter-trafficking, counter-immigration, counter-terrorism); current naval developments, maritime strategy and maritime geopolitics; the European Union's geopolitics (including its geopolitical vision and discourse); energy security and the Arctic region; and borders and frontiers in IR.

I am a member of the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS); my research project tackles maritime security and piracy discourses in Europe.

-Maritime security and Maritime/Naval affairs
-European Security
-The EU's geopolitical actorness
-Geopolitical discourses and Critical geopolitics
-Borders and frontiers in IR

MA, MRes, PhD (University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies), PGCAP (Lancaster), FHEA, FRGS

Departmental roles

- Member of the Richardson Institute Management Committee

- Programme Director for the MA programmes in Diplomacy (campus-based and distance-learning)

Faculty role

- Member of the Undergraduate Course Committee

External affiliations

- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)

- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

- Research Fellow, Centre for European Security, University of Salford

- Associate Researcher, the Pierre du Bois Foundation for Current History, Switzerland

- Associate Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Development, UCLan

- Member of the editorial board of the Romanian Review of European Governance Studies

I have two main research projects.

1) I am currently writing a monograph on the maritime dimension of European security (contract with Palgrave)

2) Within the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), ESRC-funded, I work on the maritime security and piracy discourses in Europe

Undergraduate

POLI.100 Section 4: "Principles of International Relations"

PPR.221 International Relations and Security, Section 3: "Security"

PPR.331 The European Union and the World (course convenor)

Postgraduate

I am the course convenor for the following postgraduate modules:

PPR.410 Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations

PPR.430 Theories and Concepts in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

PPR.431 Issues and Practice in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Programme Director

I am Programme Director for our Masters in Diplomacy:

-MA in Diplomacy and International Relations (Distance-learning)

-MA in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (Campus-based)

-MA/LLM in Diplomacy and International Law (Campus-based)

-MA in Diplomacy and Religion (Campus-based)