International Political Economy, Global Governance, International Development, Geopolitics, and Global Environmental Politics.

My research examines various issues across international political economy, global governance, global development, and global environmental politics.

Regarding global development, I am specifically concerned with ongoing shifts in the policy field of development cooperation, including: the rise of new state and private actors; the privatisation (and financialisation) of a hitherto public policy; transformations in state form and function, and; shifts in the nature of development finance. 

My second strand of research examines global governance: the matrix of institutions, norms, ideas, and practices beyond the level of the nation-state. I am particularly interested in the rise and normalisation of 'mulistakeholderism' as an ostensibly novel and more inclusive governance modality across various issue areas in global governance. Alongside this, I am conducting research into the changing economic orthodoxy of major global economic governance institutions in response to the rise of the so-called 'New State Capitalism' observed across the Global North and Global South.

In the context of global environmental politics, I conduct research into emerging forms of global plastics governance, specifically with regards to ongoing negotiations on a UN Global Plastics Treaty, and specifically the role of multistakeholderism in these processes, alongside corporate strategies and power. Further, my research examines the shifting geopolitics and political economy of petrochemical production.

I hold a PhD from the University of Durham, and my thesis — 'Global Development Governance in the Interregnum: Legitimacy and the Global Partnership for Effective Develoment Cooperation' — was awarded the Global Policy Institute's Oustanding Thesis Prize in April 2021. Before my post at QUB, I undertook post-doctoral study at the Margaret Anstee Centre at the University of Cambridge. 

I will be convening the following moduels in 2025-26:

PAI 7103: Global Development

PAI 7030: Global Political Economy 

I will also be teaching on the following modules:

PAI 7070: International Public Policy

PAI 3063: Politics of the Global Economy 

PAI 2069: Political Economy of the Global South 

HAP 7001: Approaches to Research Design