I am a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen's.  I am also one of the co-convenors of the BISA Global Health Working Group and creator of the Snapshots podcast series available here. 

For the 2024/25 Academic year I am the Advisor of Studies for International Relations and Conflict Studies and International Relations Joint Degrees.

I have a BA in Philosophy (Cardiff), an LLM in Law and International Security and a PhD in International Relations (both Sussex).  Previously I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sussex and a Teaching Fellow both at Sussex and University College London.  My project funded by the Leverhulme Trust investigated the role that biotechnology is playing in efforts to combat the threats of emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.  This built upon my doctoral studies that was funded as part of a wider project supported by a grant from the European Research Council.  In them I investigated the role of biotechnology within the U.S. government’s effort to develop and stockpile medical countermeasures to combat the threat of bioterrorism.

My research is focused on the way that security and politics intersect in the arena of global health. I am particularly interested in the role that biotechnology is playing in contemporary security practices including in disease surveillance and the development of pharmaceuticals in response to pandemics and bioterrorism. Various aspects of my research have contributed to debates on bioeconomies, resilience and the nature of molecular life in security studies.

A recently completed monograph with Routledge entitled The molecularisation of security: medical countermeasures, stockpiling and the governance of biological threats, investigates the role of biotechnology in the government response to pandemics and bioterrorism.  This book was awarded the Global Health Section’s Andrew Price-Smith Book Award at the International Studies Association Conference in 2024.  A review of the book in International Affairs is available here.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I have taught on and convened a range of security and global health courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

In the academic year 2024/25 I am the convenor of and lecturer on the 2^nd year undergraduate courses International Relations and Security and Terrorism.