Research Institute for Social Sciences

In 2010, I graduated from Keele University with first class honours in International Relations and Politics. My thesis examined the way in which freshwater scarcity exacerbates insecurity and violence in failing states.

In 2011, I obtained a Security Studies MScEcon, awarded with merit, from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth. My thesis called for critical infrastructure protection to figure more prominently in national security research.

Returning to Keele in 2011, I proposed a doctoral project on cutting-edge developments in the International Relations of the Environment.

My PhD thesis, scheduled for submission in 2014, hopes to be the first International Relations work to devote its attention to the aspirations and achievements of the Aarhus Convention since being signed in 1998. The thesis is animated by an English School, international society narrative.

The project offers (a) extensive documentary analysis of the Convention and the many sources pertaining to it, and (b) new insight generated from intensive fieldwork.

This project was fully funded by a Keele University Graduate Teaching Assistantship, which has enabled me to tutor undergraduate courses such as Foreign Policy, Introduction to IR, IR of the Environment, Global Politics, and Securing Global Order.