QUALIFICATIONS

MA Research Methods (Political Science), PhD Political Science (Birmingham)

EMPLOYMENT

2005 - present
Lecturer, POLSIS, University of Birmingham

2004-05
Research Fellow, POLSIS, University of Birmingham

2003
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, POLSIS, University of Birmingham

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Globalisation, political economy, black markets, prostitution and pornography, queer theory, masculinity, the body, discourse.

PROFILE

Until recently my research focused on the political economy of Ireland and the UK and sought to unpack claims that the balance of power has shifted from states to markets so that governments are forced to prioritise economic rather than social issues.  While my work remains concerned with issues of globalisation and social justice, it has nevertheless shifted away from a preoccupation with the relationship between states and markets and towards a more 'embodied' approach to IPE.  More specifically, I am undertaking a project on the political economy of the male sex industry that seeks to draw upon the insights of feminist IPE, masculinity studies and queer theory.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Global Social Justice (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2010/11), co-edited with Heather Widdows.

Showcasing Globalisation? The Political Economy of the Irish Republic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).

Special issues

‘Global Social Justice in Theory and Practice’, Journal of Global Ethics (2009), 5: 2, co-edited with Harriet Hoffler.

'Small States in the International Political Economy', The Round Table, 97 (2008), co-edited with Donna Lee.

Articles

‘How do Policy-Makers Really Understand Globalisation?  The Internal Architecture of Anglophone Globalisation Discourse in Europe’, Public Administration (forthcoming 2010), co-authored with Colin Hay.

‘Global Social Justice as a “Question of Human Survival”: An Interview with Clare Short’ (2009), Journal of Global Ethics, 5: 2.

'The Political Economy of Small African States in the WTO', The Round Table, 97 (2008), co-authored with Donna Lee.

'Mapping the Political Discourse of Globalisation and European Integration in the United Kingdom and Ireland Empirically', European Journal of Political Research (2008), 47: 3, co-authored with Colin Hay.

'Understanding Change in Political Science: On the Need to Bring Space into Theoretical Positions and Empirical Analyses', Political Studies Review (2008), 6: 2, co-authored with Stephen Bates.

‘Mapping Processes of Policy Change in Contemporary European Political Economies: The Irish Case’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2006), 8: 4.

‘Beyond Prospective Accountancy: Reassessing the Case for British Membership of the Single European Currency Comparatively’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2006), 8:1, co-authored with Colin Hay and Matthew Watson.

‘Horses for Courses? The Political Discourse of Globalisation and European Integration in the UK and Ireland’, West European Politics (2005), 28:1, co-authored with Colin Hay.

‘Size Matters: Small States in International Relations’, International Studies Perspectives (2005), 6:3, co-authored with Michelle Pace and Donna Lee.

‘Deconstructing “Globalisation” in Ireland’, Policy & Politics (2004), 32:4.

‘The Irish Republic – “A Showpiece of Globalisation”?’, Politics (2002), 22:3.

RESEARCH GRANTS

ESRC Research Grant (ref. RES000220780), with Professor Colin Hay as Co-Applicant.  Project title: 'Discourses of Globalisation and European Integration in the UK and Ireland' (£43,832; August 2005-November 2006).

TEACHING

Globalisation and Governance (POLS G79)

Methods II (POLS SD2D)

British Politics (POLS 209D)

PHD SUPERVISION

Collin Zhuawu (primary supervisor), ‘Globalisation, regionalisation and triadisation:  Incorporating Africa’

Antoinette Valsamaris (co-supervisor), ‘South Africa in the WTO: The role of business in economic diplomacy’

Jane Foody (co-supervisor), 'The politics of ageing in England: exploring local differences'