Teaching
I am committed to practices of active learning and bring a feminist understanding to all of my teaching on gender, conflict and security. I am currently supervising several Undergraduate as well as post-graduate dissertations. I am open to PhD applications in the fields of International Relations, Critical Security Studies, Transnational LGBTQ Politics, Critical Peace Studies, Decoloniality, Feminist Security Studies, and Gender Studies. I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in November 2021.
Publications on pedagogy
Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond), Teaching in Higher Education, (with Jennifer Philippa Eggert & Lewis Turner), 2025
Queer Theory “Teaching Queer International Relations Theory: A Conversation on Queer Activism, Politics, and Hope in the International Relations Classroom” (with Caitlin Biddolph) In: Frueh, J., Ala, J., Murphy, M.P., Diehl, P.F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory. Political Pedagogies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024
Queer pedagogies: insights for the international studies classroom from an international perspective. (with Serrano-Amaya, F., & Ritholtz, S. (2024). ) In H. A. Smith, M. A. Boyer, & D. J. Hornsby (Eds.), Oxford handbook of international studies pedagogy (pp. 132-149). Oxford University Press, 2023
What I teach
University of Manchester (2024-) United Nations and Security Studies (MA); Security Studies (MA); Research Design and Skills (MA)
Queen’s University Belfast (2020-2024): Gender, Peace and Security (MA) CSJ 7039, Fall: I developed and convene this module. Read the 2020 module guide here.; Theories and Issues in International Relations (MA), PAI 7026, Fall: This is is the core module of the International Relations MA program. This module is team taught.; Conflict Intervention (MA), PAI 7027: As Module Convenor I developed the first six weeks as well as the last two weeks of this module. This module is team taught.; Conflict Mediation and Transformation (MA), CSJ 7008, Spring : This module is team taught, including several weeks with practice in mediation. In 2019/2020 I re-developed the module structure, this included organizing speakers from groups including Mediation NI to join our classroom for discussion about and practice in mediation. Spring, Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, CSJ 7001 (MA), Research Methods, HAP 7001 (MA); Gender and Politics, PAI 3008 (UG), Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, CSJ 7001 (MA), Research Methods, HAP 7001 (MA); Middle Eastern Politics (UG), Peace and Conflict (UG), Ethnic and National Minorities in European Politics (UG)
Select invited lectures
2020-2025
Transgender Intersections with Peace and Conflict Studies Webinar [watch here], April 2022, Invitation by Peace Review Special Issue editors Joss Inton-Campbell and Mikee Inton-Campbell
Queering Women, Peace and Security, April 2021, [watch here.] Queer Politics webinar.
Queer Reflections on Transnational Activism, March 2021, Invitation by Dr. Toni Haastrup to speak to her Transnational Activism class at Stirling University.University of Stirling, United Kingdom
An Intersectional Approach to Queering Women, Peace and Security. February 2021, Critical Global Politics Cluster Research Seminars, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Intersections of Gender, Conflicts and Queer Theory, December 2020, Imagine Centre for Conflict Transformation project "Dialogue, Advanced Peacebuilding School and Multimedia Collaborations in the Context of Conflicts in the South Caucuses"
Queering Through Collaboration: Connecting LGBTQ and WPS Networks [podcast recording], February 2020, Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University in Belfast, UK,
What is gender and who are women? Queer Questions for Women, Peace and Security, November 2019, Politics & Gender Seminar, Newcastle University, UK
2015-2019
Queer futures for Women, Peace and Security, June 2019, Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security, University of Sussex, UK
What is gender and who are women? Queer Questions for Women, Peace and Security, May 2019, Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship, University of Essex, UK
Queerphobia and the Colombian peace referendum, February 2018, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
Queering Women, Peace and Security, December 2018, University of Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
Queering Women, Peace and Security, November 2018, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Women and peace and security: In the global and in the everyday, 2017, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Women and peace and security: In the global and in the everyday, 2017, The Juilliard School, New York, New York
International LGBTQ Human Rights: The Global Focus on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2016, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Reproductive Justice: Expanding the Framework, 2015, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Reproductive Justice Activism, 2015, The University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts