Postgraduate Tutor for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Lecturer in International Politics

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3003
• Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5082
• Email: kls25@leicester.ac.uk  

Research Interests

My primary research interest is in international political theory.  At the moment I am interested in the role that membership and protection play in the world, and in the way that we understand these.  I am particularly interested in the international scope of concepts such as authority and responsibility, and in refugees and stateless persons. 

Before joining the University of Leicester I was Lecturer in Politics and Human Rights at Kingston University.

Current Research

I am currently working on the submission of journal articles on the right to residence and collective responsibility for statelessness.  I am also writing a book, Re-theorising Statelessness, which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. 

I will also be working as a member of The International Observatory on Statelessness team from 2010. See http://www.nationalityforall.org.

Recent Research Activities

• (2010, September) Paper. “Towards Collective Responsibility? The challenges of internationalising protection”. Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University.
• (2010, January) Paper,. “Statelessness and the International Politics of Misrecognition”. The Politics of Misrecognition: An Interdisciplinary Conferences, University of Bristol.
• (2009, January) Paper. “Rorty on Human Rights: a critique”. Political Theory Forum, University of Westminster.

PhD Supervision

My primary research interest is in international political theory. At the moment I am interested in the role that membership and protection play in the world, and in the way that we understand these. I am particularly interested in the international scope of concepts such as authority and responsibility, and in refugees and stateless persons.

I am interested in supervising research with a strong theoretical dimension. I am also interested in supervising research into protection-related issues, such as citizenship, gender, refugees, fragile states and statelessness, as well as research in the broader fields of human rights and global ethics. 

Current PhD students:
Ed Brown - The Effects of Secession on State Failure

Jean Perois - What Realism for which future: a Search for a Realist security forecasting model.

Teaching

• PL7088 Ethics and International Relations
• PL3118 Global Justice and Human Rights
• PL2015 International Theory
• PL1016 Current Issues in International Relations

Most Recent Publications

Recent Journal Articles and Chapters

• (2012) Re-theorising Statelessness: a Background Theory of Membership in World Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748642779

• (2012) "Statelessness, Sentimentality and Human Rights: a critique of Rorty's liberal human rights culture". Philosophy and Social Criticism 37(9), 1011-24.

• (2012) "Statelessness and the Politics of Misrecognition". Res Publica 18(1), 93-106.