PhD Advisors at King's College London 伦敦国王学院
Research-focused faculty at King's College London, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Andi Hoxhaj
Lecturer in Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Law
EU Law
Migration
Corruption
The Rule of Law
Western Balkans
Andreas Baas
Professor of Aeolian Geomorphology · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Brian Murray
Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literature
Victorian literature and culture
Travel writing and empire
Literature, music and religion
The biblical and classical past in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
Reader (Associate Professor) in International and South Asian History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
International and transnational relations
South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Frontiers, borders and borderlands
Decolonisation
State-making and nation-building
Maritime spaces
Christian J. Tams
Professor of Public International Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Christian is a generalist international lawyer, with particular expertise in the fields of dispute settlement, international security, sovereign immunities and investment protection. In these and other fields, he has published 27 books (as author or editor) and around 180 article…
Clyde Ancarno
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Communication, Education, Languages
Davina Cooper
Research Professor in Law & Political Theory · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Law
conceptual innovation and the methodologies to support new conceptual thinking
re-conceptualisations of the state, gender, property, and equality
qualitative fieldwork, caselaw, and simulations of state and legislative practice
radical, utopian, and transgressive forms of sta…
Dr Ashwin Mathew
Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Digital, Everyday practices of Internet governance, Cybersecurity cultures, Critical perspectives on networked technologies, Comparative and relational studies of technical cultures across Global South and Global North
Dr Elisa Oreglia
Reader in Global Digital Cultures · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Digital technology use in the Global South, Critical approaches to ICT and development, ICT policies and infrastructural development in the Global South, Technological innovation in the Global South, History of Internet and digital technologies in the Global South
Dr Fa Chen
Director of English Law & Hong Kong Law LLB and JD Programme, Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
['Company Law', 'Corporate Finance', 'Corporate Governance', 'Capital Markets and Securities Regulation', 'Law and Economics']
Dr Gavin Williams
Lecturer in Music · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
19th- and 20th-Century Music, Sound Studies, Environmental Humanities
Dr John Pearce
Reader in Archaeology · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Classics
Archaeology of the Roman Empire, especially Rome's north-west provinces and Roman Italy
Archaeology of death and burial
Archaeology of documents and literacy
Archaeology of Roman and pre-Roman landscapes
Roman small finds; visual culture and Roman bronzes
Dr Melissa Elechiguerra Labarca
Lecturer in Taxation Education · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Law
International taxation
Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights
Exchange of tax information
Edmund Gordon
Reader in Creative and Critical Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
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Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Early Islamic history and historiography, Arabic historical writing, pre-Islamic world, ethnic and geographical discourses in Islamic representations of antiquity, Arabic reception of late antique Iranian history-writing, foundation narratives of the first Islamic cities, attitud…
Emel Akçalı
Senior Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Environment, Security, International relations; Environmental Geopolitics, Green Energy Transition, Critical Security Studies, Critical Geopolitics, Non-Western /Global IR, Geopolitical Imaginations, Post human IR
Emily Pillinger
Reader in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Classics
Music and the reception of Classics
Creative practice in music as classical reception
Ancient Greek and Latin poetry
Gethin Rees
Lecturer in Digital Products and Industries · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
heritage, geography and software development; understanding how audiences engage with visualisations and digital cartography through ideation and development; Geography and heritage; Web maps, GIS and the spatial humanities; History, heritage and digital applications in South Asi…
Hannah Dawson
Reader in the History of Political Thought · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History of political thought and intellectual history; History of gender and feminism; History of theories of language; Hobbes; Locke
Hessam Mehr
Lecturer in AI for Science and Chemistry · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Chemistry in microdroplets, Inhomogeneous chemical systems, High-throughput analytical methods, Programmable chemistry, Sensors and imaging, Artificial intelligence in chemistry
Jasper Reid
Reader in Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Philosophy
Cartesianism
Cambridge Platonism
Immaterialism
Philosophy and religion
Philosophy and science
Jon Day
Reader in English and Creative Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Anglo-Irish modernism, especially prose fiction; Philosophical and cultural history of consciousness & the senses; Urban studies; Contemporary prose fiction; Flann O’Brien; Creative non-fiction; Place, nature and travel writing
Laura Gowing
Professor of Women’s and Early Modern History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Majed Akhter
Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Infrastructures, Natural resources, Geopolitics, Marxism, Comparative and trans-regional methods
Max Edling
Professor of Early American History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
American founding
United States early republic
Early American state formation
Early American public finance
Mihael Jeklic
Lecturer and Director of Professional Skills · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Social cognition in negotiation (the inferential processes that allow people to make sense of each other in terms of mental states applied to negotiation), with an emphasis on:
* Heuristics in negotiation (rules of thumb automatically applied in negotiation that may lead to sy…
Nick Srnicek
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Critical accounts of the digital economy; Geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence; Anti-work politics; Postcapitalist futures; Digital development
Paul Spence
Reader in Digital Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Culture, Digital, Languages
Richard Drayton
Professor of Imperial and Global History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History; How empires shape economy, society, politics, and culture at both their centres and peripheries; The entangled history of European empires and their impact on Europe's hinterlands; The British Empire from c. 1600 to its aftermaths, and its impact on the British isles; Fr…
Ros Murray
Senior Lecturer in French · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Culture, Languages, Media, Documentary, avant-garde and experimental film cultures in France and Spain, Feminism and queer theory, Antonin Artaud
Ruvani Ranasinha
Professor of Global Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literature
Sylvie Delacroix
Professor, Director of the Centre for Data Futures, Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Philosophy of Law
Legal Theory
Philosophy and AI, data-related themes
Toby Green
Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
African economic history and its intersection with world economic history; Atlantic slavery; Connections between the precolonial, the colonial and the postcolonial state in Africa; The Covid-19 pandemic and global inequality
Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Intellectual and political history of modern China; Gender and women’s history in modern China; Chinese warlordism and the Chinese federalist movement; The literary, cultural, and political societies of Chinese intellectuals; Transnational history of Chinese intellectuals, partic…
Áine McMurtry
Reader in German · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Languages; Modern German and Austrian literature and culture; Experimental Writing; Translingual Texts; Critical Theory; Cultures of Migration
Aaron Rosenberg
Lecturer in Literary Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
19th and 20th century literature; Environmental humanities and ecocriticism; History and theory of the novel; Genre theory
Abdoolkarim Vakil
Lecturer in History and Portuguese Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History; Portuguese Intellectual and Cultural History, 19th and 20th centuries; Nationalism and National Identity and related political ideologies and movements; Historical Commemorations, Heritage and collective memory; European Colonial Relations with Islam and Muslims and Cont…
Adrian Alsmith
Senior lecturer in Philosophy (Mind and Psychology) · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Perception, Self-consciousness, Virtual reality, Imagination
Alexander Douglas
Lecturer in Music Education · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Aesthetics & Neuroaesthetics
Phenomenology ('pure' and 'applied', including phenomenological psychopathology)
African-Diasporic Music/s
Anthropology (cultural, linguistic, philosophical and psychiatric)
Theology (and Sociology of Religion)
Critical and Cultural Theory/ies
Improvi…
Alice Taylor
Professor of Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
European politics in the central middle ages and political thought; history of politics
Medieval states and governments
Law and legal norms; ideas of legal traditions.
British and Irish history over the long term
Medieval memories and identities; historical writing.
Amanda Chisholm
Reader in Gender and Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Feminist security studies and global political economy, Private Military and Security Companies, Gender and the military, Gurkhas, Ethnography, Ethical recruitment
Ambarish Karamchedu
Lecturer in International Development · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Political economy/ecology of industrial livestock systems (poultry in particular); India/South Asia; Agrarian political economy; Environmental/climate change in smallholder agriculture; Deagrarianisation and labour markets; Caste, waste, labour and urban political ecology; Critic…
Andrea Ballatore
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Data Science · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Cultural Geo-Analytics: leverages geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the socio-spatial aspects of cultural production and consumption, analysing how cultural objects—such as museum collections, books, maps, films, and songs—are geographically distributed and how …
Andreas Krieg
Senior Lecturer School of Security Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Security Sector Reform in the Middle East, Regime Resilience in MENA, Changing Security Discourse in the Arab world, Violent non-state actors in MENA, Gulf Security
Angus McNelly
Lecturer in International Development (Politics) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International development, Politics
Anit Mukherjee
Senior Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
India's foreign and defence policy, Indo-Pacific, Civil-military relations
Ann Lorek
Lecturer Child Health and Development · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
brain injury prevention, refugee child health, and safeguarding
Anna Snaith
Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literature, Virginia Woolf, Modernist women writers, Modernism and colonialism, Literary sound studies
Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira
Lecturer in Geopolitics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography, Politics, History
Ben Baumberg Geiger
Professor in Social Science and Health · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mental Health, Decent work & economic growth (SDG 8), Employment, Employers
Billy Holzberg
Lecturer in Social Justice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
His research focuses on the emotional dynamics of social and political life, with particular attention to nationalism, bordering and the resurgence of the far right. Drawing on queer, feminist and postcolonial affect theory, he analyses how emotions such as fear, resentment, empa…
Bouke Klein Teeselink
Lecturer in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Behavioural economics, Applied microeconomics, Political economy, Economics of AI
Charlotte Russell
Reader in Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Neuropsychology – cognitive effects of stroke and dementia; Episodic Memory; Spatial representation and visual attention; Consciousness; Cognition and Ageing
Chase Foster
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Dr Foster’s work is in comparative and international political economy, with a geographical focus on Europe and North America. His research interests include: politics of market regulation and enforcement; law and capitalism; political economy of industrial policy; economic liber…
Chris Berry
Professor of Film Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Arts; Media; Chinese and East Asian cinema and screen cultures; Screens and Public Space; Gender, Sexuality and Cinema; Documentary Film; Theorizing Screen Studies; Theories of National and Transnational Cinema
Chris Manias
Reader in the History of Science · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Christine Cheng
Senior Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, International development, Security
Christopher Kinsey
Professor of International Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, The Privatisation of Security, Strategic Thought, New Wars, Security Sector Reform
Claire Heard
Lecturer in Psychology Education · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Applied judgement and the use of choice architecture interventions
Risk Perception and Risk communication
Affect, Judgements and Decision Making
Choice Architecture & Debiasing
Information Design & Information Search
Inclusive Education and AI in Learning and Assessments
Clare Carlisle
Professor of Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Philosophy; History of modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, Kierkegaard and George Eliot; Philosophy and literature/art; Philosophies of religion; Life writing; Ethics and human flourishing, especially concepts of habit and practice
Clare Herrick
Professor of Geography and Global Health · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Claudia Aradau
Professor of International Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International relations; Politics; Critical security studies; Security practices in the digital age; International political sociology; Critical methods in international relations
Claudia Horn
Lecturer in International Political Economy Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International political economy, Environmental politics, International development, Climate finance, Latin America, Brazil, Forest conservation and carbon offsetting, Political theory, Political economy
Craig Moyes
Reader in French and Quebec Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literary and cultural history of 20th- and 21st-century Quebec; Early modern French and comparative literature; Literary and poetic theory
Daanish Mustafa
Professor in Critical Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Dalia Gebrial
Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Employment, Geography, London, Race and Racialisation, Platform economies, Globalisation, Social Reproduction, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Political Economy
Daniel Allington
Reader in Social Analytics · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Extremism and political violence, Antisemitism, Conspiracy beliefs, Cultural industries, Applied statistics
David Carpenter
Professor of Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History; Magna Carta; King Henry III; Westminster Abbey; Medieval Scotland
David Jordan
Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Policy, Security, Air and Space Power, Air Power history, First and Second World Wars, British Military Operations since 1945, Falklands War, Air Power and the 1991 Gulf War
David Richards
Professor of Physics · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Physics
Devin Terhune
Reader in Experimental Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Consciousness, Dissociative states and disorders, Functional neurological disorder, Hallucinations, Hypnosis, Metacognition, Placebo/nocebo responses, Psychedelics, Suggestion and suggestibility, Time perception
Dr Alex Clarkson
Lecturer in European Politics and History · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Dr Alex Gould
Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies (Future of Conflict) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International relations, Policy
Dr Alice Xiang
Lecturer in Comparative Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Chinese-Turkish literary relations in the first half of the twentieth century, situating them within the networks of solidarity and cosmopolitan practices that formed across new and emerging nations during this period. More broadly, her work is driven by questions such as: What s…
Dr Apurv Chauhan
Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural Psychology (Education) · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Apurv is a social and cultural psychologist committed to understanding poverty, homelessness, and related social inequalities and injustices. In this area, his work explores the role of language in constructing and driving disadvantage, stigmatisation, and othering of people in t…
Dr Barnaby Dye
Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International development; Politics
Dr Bence Nemeth
Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Security, Conflict, Defence, Management
Dr Benjamin Kienzle
Reader in Security Cooperation · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, International relations
Dr Christine Mathias
Lecturer in Modern Latin American History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History, Modern Latin America, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Populism
Dr Emma Colven
Senior Lecturer in Risk, Environment, and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics of Urban Adaptation and Resilience; Uneven Geographies of Speculative Urban Development; Digital Political Ecologies
Dr Eva Ogiermann
Reader in English Language and Applied Linguistics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Social Interaction, Cultural Diversity, Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics in Language Teaching, Im/politeness, Linguistic Landscapes
Dr Giouliana Kadra-Scalzo
Lecturer in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Psychiatry; Psychology; Evidence-based interventions to support recovery and return to work; Leadership, career development and progression; Finding and maintaining purpose and meaning at work
Dr Gülüm Özer
Lecturer of Psychological Medicine, Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mental Health, Workplace bullying perpetration, Employee wellbeing
Dr Harvey G. Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Cultural and political history; History and business of popular music and film in the US and UK; American and African American history and politics; Museums, publishing industry, New York City
Dr Helen McCartney
Reader in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict; Security; War and Society in the Twentieth Century; First World War Military History; War Syndromes in the Twentieth Century; Civil-Military Relations
Dr Isabelle Hertner
Reader in the Politics of Britain in Europe · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Dr Joan Redmond
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Seventeenth-century Irish and British history
History of violence, protest and rebellion
Religious history of Ireland and Britain in the early modern period
The early modern Atlantic world, especially as it connects to Ireland
Dr John Connor
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Politics · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literature, Politics
Dr Kovila Coopamootoo
Lecturer in Computer Science (Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science) · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Computer science, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Usable privacy & security, Human-centred AI, Safe and equitable online experiences
Dr Lilly Pijnenburg Muller
Lecturer in Security Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Critical War and Security Studies; International Political Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Emerging technology
Dr Martina Zimmermann
Reader in Health Humanities and Health Sciences · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
My research interests sit in the health humanities, especially aspects of health and illness in older age, including how we think about dementia and other chronic degenerative diseases and neurological conditions.
Dr Mladen Adamovic
Reader in Leadership & Global Management · King's Business School
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Management, Human Resource Management
Dr Rishita Nandagiri
Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Biomedical and life sciences; Ethics; Sociology; Abortion; Reproduction and reproductive justice; Gender and global health; Reproductive governance and population politics; Qualitative and feminist research methods
Dr Scott James
Reader in Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Economics, Politics
Dr Simon Moody
Senior Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, Security
Dr Stacey Gutkowski
Reader in Peace and Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, International relations, Philosophy and religion
Dr Stephan Engelkamp
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, International relations, Politics, Security
Dr Tomas Maltby
Reader in International Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Environment, Politics
Edward Adams
Professor of New Testament Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Religion
Eleanor Crane
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Natural Sciences
Elif Kalaycioglu
Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Theories of Global Politics, Global Cultural and Heritage Politics, Memory Politics, Visions and Politics of Humanity, UNESCO and World Heritage
Elisa Cavatorta
Reader in Economics and Vice Dean (International) for the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Elisa’s research focuses on the study of conflict, the formation of individual preferences and beliefs, impact evaluation of policy interventions and the development of new measurement tools for applied research. Her research addresses questions like: how and why does living in a…
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Reader in Early Modern Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Early modern women's writing, Poetic form, Early modern literary criticism, Sonnets: early modern and contemporary, Shakespeare's poems
Ellen Hallams
Reader in Defence Studies Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Politics, Security
Emrys Jones
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Culture, Literature, Literature and Politics in the Eighteenth Century, The History of Celebrity, Privacy and Publicity, Alexander Pope and his Contemporaries, Periodical Culture
Evgeny Kozik
Reader · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Physics
Federico Bonaddio
Professor of Modern Spanish Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Modern Spanish fiction, poetry and film. Federico has published on 20th-century Spanish culture, including the poetry of Federico García Lorca and popular Spanish cinema. He is generally interested in metatextual devices and difficulties inherent in creative processes. He is curr…
Francisco Mazzola
Lecturer in Middle East Studies Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Security, Politics, Politics and security in Lebanon, the Middle East, and Latin America, Police, policing, and police reform, Areas of Limited Statehood
Gabriel Leon-Ablan
Professor of Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Social unrest; Riots and protests; Social order; Historical political economy; Slavery
George Benjamin
Henry Purcell Professor of Composition · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Music, Composition
Gerard Watts
Professor in Theoretical Physics · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conformal and topological field theory, Integrable quantum field theory, Infinite dimensional algebras and their applications, Numerical and algebraic approaches to renormalisation group flows
Greg Kennedy
Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Policy, Politics, Security, Maritime History, Imperial History, Diplomatic History, Strategic Thought, American Foreign Policy, Intelligence
Hana Chockler
Professor of Computer Science · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Computer science; Explainable AI; Actual causality; Formal verification and synthesis
Huajie (Lily) Jin
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience; Health Technology Assessment; Cost-effectiveness/utility analysis; Budget impact analysis; Cost-of-illness study; Health economic modelling (e.g., decision tree, Markov model, and discrete event simulation); Whole disease modelling; Trial-…
Huw Davies
Professor of British Military History · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, Security, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century European Warfare, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Imperial Expansion and Warfare (Colonial America, Central Asia, India, Africa), The Military Enlightenment, The Military Revolution, Military Learning, Adaptation an…
Ian Gooderson
Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Politics, Security
Ioannis Bakolis
Professor of Public Mental Health and Statistics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Air pollution and mental health over the life course; Extreme heat and mental health; Covid-19 response; Natural experiments; Hybrid studies
Jack McDonald
Senior Lecturer in War Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict and security
Jake Gasson
AEP Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History; Conflict and security; History of War; Morale and Combat Motivation; Mobilisation; First World War; Second World War
James Millington
Professor of Environmental Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Jan Knoerich
Reader in China and the Global Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International development, Policy
Jenny Driscoll
Professor of Children's Rights · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Child & Family, Education, Law, Policy
Jeroen Gunning
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Political mobilisation and contestation in the Middle East (esp. using social movement theory); Causes, patterns and effects of political violence (state and non-state); Geographies of everyday peace and security practices; State effects and the everyday state in the Middle East;…
Jessica Hamer
Research Associate · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Dr Hamer's research explores the barriers young people face when it comes to subject choice, especially in STEM subjects. She has worked on numerous projects looking at diversity and inclusion in secondary physics education. Dr Hamer is part of the SCARI computing project (Subjec…
Jicheng Gong
Reader in Engineering · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Engineering
Micro– and Meso–Scale Mechanical Testing of Advanced Materials
Fatigue Tests
Precise Micro laser machining
Insitu SEM, EBSD, DIC and Thermal Imaging Characterisation Techniques
Johan Andersson
Reader in Urban Cultural Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography, Queer nightlife, Cinema and the city
John Narayan
Senior Lecturer in European and International Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Racial capitalism, Race, racism and anti-racism, Globalisation and democracy, Imperialism and anti-imperialism, Social and political theory
Jonathan Fennell
Professor of the History of War and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Policy, Politics, Security
Joseph Baines
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Economics, Politics
José Ciro Martínez
Lecturer in International Development (Politics) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics, International development
Karin A King
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management Education · King's Business School
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Human Resource Management
Karishma Banga
Lecturer in Digital Economy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Digital trade and industrial policy; Digital value chains and structural transformation; Automation and the future of work; Political economy of digital and data governance
Katie Meehan
Professor of Environmental Justice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Environment
Kriti Kapila
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Law · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Anthropology of the State, Law and Anthropology, Ethnographic Theory, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Anthropology of the Digital, Contemporary India
Kélina Gotman
Professor of Performance and the Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Theatre, dance and performance history and philosophy, emphasising transdisciplinary archival research; Cultural and critical practices of writing and the (bio)politics of form; Critical studies of science and medicine, including psychiatry, neuroscience and ‘health’ discourse; H…
Liliana Bounegru
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Her research interests include intersections between the following topics: digital media, digital culture, digital journalism, data journalism, climate change, misinformation, and the following approaches: inventive methods for new media research, digital methods for social and c…
Lisa Jane Brighton
Lecturer in Applied Health Research · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Palliative care; Psychological and social aspects of living with respiratory conditions/symptoms; Relationship between physical and mental health in people with life-limiting illness; Rehabilitation in people with life-limiting illness; Development and evaluation of complex inter…
Luke Brown
Senior Lecturer in Earth Observation · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Biophysical and biochemical variable retrieval, In situ sensing techniques, Optical Earth observation, Remote sensing of vegetation health and condition, Satellite product calibration/validation, Uncertainty evaluation
Maia King
Lecturer in Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
economics of governance institutions and social networks; public finance and budgets; climate policy and forest governance; the use of evidence in policymaking; and the responsiveness of policymaking institutions, including participatory approaches
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Professor of War Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear Strategy, Nuclear Proliferation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Cheating and compliance, High North
Margaryta Klymak
Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Economics, International development, Development economics, Public economics, Political economy, Public procurement, Child and forced labour
Maria Cotofan
Lecturer in Economics and Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Labour economics; Experimental and behavioural economics; Policy evaluation
Mark Eccleston-Turner
Reader in Global Health Law · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International law and infectious diseases; Pathogen sharing and equitable access to vaccines; Global health justice; The securitisation of health; Pandemic preparedness; Health law
Mark Langan
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Policy, Politics, Political Economy of Development, Africa in the Global Economy, Africa – Europe Relations since 1957, EU Trade and Development Policies, Private Sector Development
Matthew Kempton
Reader in Neuroimaging Psychiatry · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mental Health
Maud Borie
Senior Lecturer in Environment, Science & Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Mauricio Najarro
Lecturer in Health Inequalities · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Sociology, Nonsecular Medical Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, Queer Studies
Mehmet Mars Seven
Lecturer in Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Game theory, Fairness, Political economy
Michael Chadwick
Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Geography
Michael Goodman
Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, Security, Intelligence Studies, Cold War History, Nuclear Weapons History
Michael Kerr
Professor of Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Conflict Resolution, Consociational Democracy, Northern Ireland, Middle East, Lebanon, Syria
Natasha Kuhrt
Senior Lecturer in International Peace & Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Russian and Eurasian security/foreign policy especially in Asia, International law; Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect, Nationalism and identity; populism, Regions and Regionalism
Ned Barker
Lecturer in Digital Culture and Technology · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Technology and the Body, Novel Biohybrid Systems, Human Augmentation, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Collaborative and Sensory Ethnography
Neil Vickers
Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Literature, health humanities, history of the medical/health humanities, history of the Psy disciplines (especially the British psychoanalytic tradition) and their relation to concepts of health and illness
Niall O'Flaherty
Reader in the History of European Political Thought · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History, Politics, The Intellectual History of Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain, European Political Ideas
Nick Lloyd
Professor of Modern Warfare · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, Security
Oguz A. Acar
Professor of Marketing & Innovation · King's Business School
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Marketing
Olivia Cheung
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Dr Cheung is working on research projects on Chinese politics and foreign policy, international orders, and the comparative study of ideology, strategy, and statecraft. Her research interests include:
- Politics and foreign policy of China
- Rising powers
- International orders
-…
Oscar Marín
Professor of Neuroscience · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Biomedical and life sciences; Neuroscience
Pankhuri Agarwal
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations · King's Business School
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Human Resource Management
Paul Stokes
Professor of Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mental Health, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Bipolar Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Clinical Trials, Addictions, Cognitive impairment, Sleep, LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Pauline Blistène
Lecturer in Strategic Communication · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Spy fiction, Public perceptions of intelligence, Secrecy, Disinformation, Conspiracy & conspiracy theories, France & French intelligence
Pavlos Avlamis
Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language & Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Classics; Hellenistic and Imperial Greek literature and culture; Ancient popular culture; Ancient wisdom traditions and fable
Peter Adamson
Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Late ancient philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; Arabic philosophy; Medieval philosophy
Philip Kirby
Senior Lecturer in History of Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Education, Sociology, Communication
Priyanka Basu
Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Priyanka is a South Asian Studies scholar working at the intersections of literary, cultural and performative traditions, particularly in Bangladesh and India. She is currently completing her first monograph—The Cultural Politics of Folk: Transnational Histories in India and Bang…
Professor Adrian Blau
Professor of Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Rafie Cecilia
Lecturer in CMCI, Museum & Gallery Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Inclusive technology and creative digital innovation practice, especially in relation to museums and collections, including AI applications, 3D printing and modelling, accessible software, wayfinding & navigation. Artificial Intelligence as assistive technology in the cultural se…
Ragnar Löfstedt
Professor of Risk Management · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Policy
Raphael Cunha
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
International and comparative political economy, Politics of financial globalisation, Emerging/developing markets
Rebecca Rhead
Lecturer in Society and Mental Health · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
quantitative social science, population mental health, social determinants of mental health, health inequalities, ethnic inequalities in healthcare, discrimination in health services, mental health service use, social and community mental health
Rikke Amundsen
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Digital Intimacy, Feminist Media Studies, Digital Sociology, Gender and Digital Culture, Digital Sexual Culture
Robert Foley
Professor of Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, International relations, Politics, Security
Roberta Comunian
Professor of Creative Economies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Arts, Creative, Culture
Robin Douglass
Professor of Political Theory · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Rod Dacombe
Reader in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Rohan Borschmann
Reader in Mental Health Care & Research; Associate Professor · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mental Health; Adolescent mental health; The health of people in contact with the criminal justice system; Self-harm and suicide prevention; The health of people experiencing homelessness.
Rory Sheehan
Senior Clinical Lecturer · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Disability; Intellectual (learning) disability and autism; Interface between intellectual disability, neurodevelopmental disorders, mental illness, and offending behaviour; Forensic psychiatry; Health inequities; Health services research
Rosie Campbell
Professor of Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Rowan Gard
Lecturer in Human Geography and Sustainability (Education) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Climate change and environmental degradation responses, especially in Oceania and the UK; Education for sustainability; Deep sea mining and the blue economy in the Pacific; Climate change activism and environmental campaigning; Globalization in and of Oceania; Art as climate chan…
Roxana Bratu
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Policy, Digital
Samuel Greene
Professor of Russian Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Sanchayan Banerjee
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics and Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Behavioural economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, public policy
Sarah Birch
Professor of Political Science · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Politics
Sarah Cooper
Professor of Film Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Media; History of film theory; Film and philosophy; Critical plant studies and film
Sarah Stockwell
Professor of the History of Empire and Decolonization · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Shan Luo
Professor in Engineering · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Engineering; Physical AI; Visuo-Tactile Robotics; Physical Foundation and World Models; Robot Learning for Grasping and Manipulation
Shiraz Maher
Reader in Non-State Actors · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict; History; Security; Contemporary Syria (The Civil War and post-war transition); Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Vision 2030 and legal reforms); Non-state Actors in the Middle East (particularly their use of violence and governance models); Islamic movements (especially jihadi…
Sian Oram
Professor of Trauma and Recovery · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Human trafficking and modern slavery; Domestic and sexual violence; Mental health policy
Simon Scott
Professor in Analysis · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Mathematics; Traces of fourier integral operators; Geometric analysis; Geometry; Lie theory
Siobhán McIlvanney
Professor of French and Francophone Women's Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Culture, Languages, Literature
Sorana-Cristina Jude
Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, Gender equality (SDG 5)
Stephen Lovell
Professor of Modern History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History; Cultural and Social History of 19th and 20th Century Russia; Voting and Political Culture in the Russian Empire and USSR
Sundeep Lidher
Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800) · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
History
Thomas Furse
Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, Security, International relations; US foreign, defense, and security policy; Hegemony studies; History of doctrine and the US Army; History of ideas; International Relations
Tim Benbow
Professor of Strategic Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Conflict, History, Policy, Security, Naval Strategy and History (especially naval aviation and amphibious warfare) - Second World War and after, UK strategy and defence policy, Warfare since 1945, Changing character of war and future warfare
Tom Matthews
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Glacier-climate interactions, specialising in the numerical modelling of glacier melt; Measuring the planet's most extreme weather; The physical drivers of weather and climate extremes (heatwaves, tropical/extra-tropical cyclones); Compound weather and climate extremes; Climate c…
Tom McAdams
Professor of Psychopathology & Behavioural Genetics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience; Development and use of genetically informative methods to understand the aetiology of psychopathology; Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology; Causal inference; Behavioural genetics; Structural equation modelling; Gene-environme…
Tugba Bozcaga
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Political economy of development, Bureaucracy and state capacity, Distributive politics, Education politics, Social welfare
Udit Bhatia
Lecturer in Political Theory · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Udit's research focuses on normative democratic theory, constitutionalism, and political epistemology. Some of his recent papers have examined the legal and normative status of political parties, asking how their internal rules should be configured. In other work, he has engaged …