Power, Conflict and In/Securities Research Group

The Power, Conflict and In/Securities research group has interests across a range of significant fields of social science: cultural representations of and the impact of wars and militarisation; prisoners of war; the construction of public and governmental perceptions of in/security and the processes and power relations underlying these; public understandings of the nuclear industry; risk, (in)security and protection; Arab/Israeli conflict; peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention; and political violence.

Much of the group's research is conducted in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions and internationally. The group is home to PhD and postdoctoral researchers who are carrying out research within the field.

The group seeks to enhance the consideration of Power, Conflict and In/Securities and it is open to anybody with an interest in this broad and important field. All are welcome.

Current and recent funded research

Securing the future of nuclear power through heritage-making (2015–)

The military in our midst (2018–2020, funded by a Leverhulme research grant)

The politics of military loss in Europe (2014–2015, funded by the Swedish Research Council)

Preservation, accessibility and use of WW1 Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) records (2014–16)

Recent events

Splitting the Atom (September–October 2020)

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Biennial Conference (26–30 August 2020)

(Re)Placing Chernobyl (18 May 2020)

Nuclear Cultural Heritage (12 March 2020)

Nuclear and Social Science Nexus (12–13 December 2019)

Atomic heritage (24–27 October 2019)

Collecting: assembling nuclear cultural heritage (January and March 2019)

War, technology and law: the future (November 2018)

The PhD and the powerful: a BISA postgraduate workshop (November 2018)

Futures of sacrifice (30 November 2018)

Lithuanian nuclear history exhibit (March 2018)

The urban knowledge and non-knowledge infrastructure (8–13 July 2017)

Nuclear heritage: from knowledge to practice (6 July 2017)