Research Institute for Social Sciences

• BA International Relations and Strategic Studies, Lancaster University (2008)

• MA International Political Economy, Newcastle University (2010)

• Doctoral research project at Keele University funded by the Research Institute for Social Sciences (2011-2014)

‘Tiananmen: An Archaeology of the Event’

The project aims at examining the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and their violent suppression through the literature on the philosophy of the event, in particular through the work of Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault’s ‘archaeology’. Supervised by Dr Barry Ryan and Dr Helen Parr

Research interests include: Chinese History, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Post-colonial Studies, Critical Security Studies

• 10^th Annual Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium, Keele University, 14^th-16^th June 2012, Discussant (‘Revisiting the Frankfurt School and English School’), Co-organiser, and Presenter (‘Oswald Spengler and the Problematisation of Civilisation/s’)

• Emerging Securities Unit Work-in-Progress Seminar Series, Keele University, 14^th November 2012, ‘Tiananmen: Visibility and Sublimity’