About
My research interests are broadly situated in the field of critical military studies, working at intersections of sociology and criminology, investigating the harms caused by military institutions, geographies, personnel and practices. Other conceptual areas of my research explores the subjugated knowledge of ‘war’ and the ‘military’ within criminological literature.
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas, broadly relating to critical military studies:
- Military harms (broadly defined)
- Class and social inequalities as they relate to military settings and contexts
- Military geographies and landscapes (broadly defined)
- Knowledge economies of defence estates and establishments
Current supervised PhD projects:
2024 to-date PhD (primary supervisor) – A Class-Based Analysis of (Former) UK Armed Forces Personnel. Fully funded Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 Standard PhD Studentship, awarded via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP), co-supervised with Dr Kirsty Morrin and Dr Peter Campbell - forthcoming
2023 to-date PhD (primary supervisor) - Fans, Football and the Totem: An ethnographic investigation of totemism’s contribution to studying regional variances in British football fandom. Fully funded GTF Scholarship from the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, co-supervised with Professor Michael Mair and Dr Laura Naegler - ongoing
2018 to-date PhD (secondary supervisor) - A Comparative Study of Cross-Continental Approaches to Counter-Radicalisation: Evaluating Strategy, Policy and Preventative Practices. Co-supervised with Professor Gabe Mythen - ongoing
Completed supervised PhD projects:
2018 - 2023 PhD (primary supervisor) - Mediating militarism: chronicling 100 years of British ‘military victimhood’ from print to digital, 1918-2018. Fully funded Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) CASE Studentship with The British Library, awarded via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP), co-supervised with Dr Andrew Kirton and Jason Webber (British Library)
2016 – 2021 PhD (primary supervisor) - Thinking the Prison Affectively: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Official Prison Reports from Three English Prisons. Fully funded GTF Scholarship from the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, co-supervised with Dr Roy Coleman
2012 - 2017 PhD (secondary supervisor) – Policing protest in an age of austerity: How the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) responded to anti-austerity movements after the financial crash. Fully funded GTF Scholarship from the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, co-supervised with Professor Barry Godfrey
Prizes or Honours
- Case Study Award (C-SAP: Criminology Special Interest Group, 2010)