In this fourth episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 we discuss ‘Civil Wars: from internationalised to localised conflicts’ with our amazing guests. Dr James Worral is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies at the University of Leeds where he has worked since 2005 His research interests focus on Comparative Politics, Security Studies and International Relations with a particular interest in the Gulf and the Levant. He has conducted research on a...

This third episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 is a special episode as the CGSC and EJIS gave us the opportunity to be present at their conference “Security in times of polycrisis” in May 2023.  The term ‘polycrisis’ has gained prominence over recent years as a way of articulating the sum of the multiple, intersecting crises of our contemporary world. Their panelists agreed on speaking to us after their presentations, a big thanks to all of them: Alba Griffin, Ishmael Billa,...

In this second episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2 we discuss the future of Security Studies with our amazing guests all working at the University of Leeds. We will be answering questions which were put to us by undergraduate students taking the Security Studies module at the University of Leeds and addressing a key question: what is the future of security studies? Our guests  Dr Louise Pears, Lecturer of Global Security Challenges. Louise works on Feminist Security Studies,...

We are launching the second season of Insecure: A Security Podcast with this mini episode in which we discuss the future of our research, both as Early Career Researchers and Research Fellows at the University of Leeds. This fascinating discussion explores our ongoing research and plans for the future. Marine discusses her recent research including a forthcoming book chapter in an edited volume for Manchester University Press in which she analyses the colonial legacies of French...

We are delighted to announce a new season of ‘Insecure: A Security Podcast' hosted by Marine and Harrison. The podcast is hosted by Dr Marine Guéguin (@GueguinMarine), a research fellow at the Centre for Global Security Challenges (university of Leeds), and Dr Harrison Swinhoe (@HarrySwinhoe), a research fellow at the Centre for Global Security Challenges (university of Leeds), with the goal of advancing the CGSC’s innovative research by strengthening the centre’s existing research culture...

In this bonus episode Dr Harrison Swinhoe and Marine Gueguin will discuss their own research within terrorism studies.Dr Harrison Swinhoe is an Early Career Research at the University of Leeds. His PhD thesis explored how the Islamic State’s strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy were constructed through the English language propaganda content produced by the group between 2014 and 2017. In so doing his thesis analysed a range of discourses constructed by the Islamic...

In this second episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast we discuss the future of terrorism studies with Dr Gordon Clubb, Associate Professor in Terrorism at the University of Leeds and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation Studies ( https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/66/dr-gordon-clubb ) and Mr. Mohammad Didarul Islam, a PhD student at the University of Leeds and an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka (...

In this debut episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast we discuss environmental security and COP 26 with Prof. Richard Beardsworth, the Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, (https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1141/professor-richard-beardsworth ) and Dr. Nicole Nisbett, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1575/dr-nicole-nisbett).This fascinating discussion explores how climate...

We are delighted to announce the new PGR and ECR led podcast ‘Insecure: A Security Podcast’, season 1, funded by the Centre for Global Security Challenges (CGSC).The podcast is hosted by Marine Guéguin (@GueguinMarine), a postgraduate researcher in POLIS, and Dr Harrison Swinhoe (@HarrySwinhoe), with the goal of advancing the CGSC’s innovative research by strengthening the centre’s existing research culture and fostering new academic relationships between postgraduates, early career...