Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History
@irph.bsky.social
We are International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, part of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. We offer seven undergraduate programmes, an MA in International Security, and doctorates.
Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Stavros Kartsonas, who passed his PhD viva yesterday!
His thesis, Psychopolitics & Resistance: The Case of SYRIZA during the Greek Crisis, was supervised by Guy Aitchison and @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social, and examined by Ruth Kinna and Angela Dimitrakaki.
His thesis, Psychopolitics & Resistance: The Case of SYRIZA during the Greek Crisis, was supervised by Guy Aitchison and @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social, and examined by Ruth Kinna and Angela Dimitrakaki.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Stavros Kartsonas, who passed his PhD viva yesterday!
His thesis, Psychopolitics & Resistance: The Case of SYRIZA during the Greek Crisis, was supervised by Guy Aitchison and @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social, and examined by Ruth Kinna and Angela Dimitrakaki.
His thesis, Psychopolitics & Resistance: The Case of SYRIZA during the Greek Crisis, was supervised by Guy Aitchison and @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social, and examined by Ruth Kinna and Angela Dimitrakaki.
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Reminder: If you might like to apply for a Leverhulme postdoc working with me (or any of my @irph.bsky.social colleagues) the deadline for the internal competition is one week today. Reach out ASAP!
My School is supporting competitive applicants for the @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships (details below). I'm happy to support candidates in my research areas, including (among others) animals in moral/political philosophy.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reminder: If you might like to apply for a Leverhulme postdoc working with me (or any of my @irph.bsky.social colleagues) the deadline for the internal competition is one week today. Reach out ASAP!
Today is World Philosophy Day!
Philosophy is a big part of what we do here in IRPH (and not just on our PPE degree). One reason for this is that training in philosophy makes us into better thinkers. This is important in every discipline.
#philosophy #worldphilosophyday #philsky
Philosophy is a big part of what we do here in IRPH (and not just on our PPE degree). One reason for this is that training in philosophy makes us into better thinkers. This is important in every discipline.
#philosophy #worldphilosophyday #philsky
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today is World Philosophy Day!
Philosophy is a big part of what we do here in IRPH (and not just on our PPE degree). One reason for this is that training in philosophy makes us into better thinkers. This is important in every discipline.
#philosophy #worldphilosophyday #philsky
Philosophy is a big part of what we do here in IRPH (and not just on our PPE degree). One reason for this is that training in philosophy makes us into better thinkers. This is important in every discipline.
#philosophy #worldphilosophyday #philsky
What have you been up to since graduation? If you graduated from IRPH at Loughborough between May and July 2024, we need you!
You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!
You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What have you been up to since graduation? If you graduated from IRPH at Loughborough between May and July 2024, we need you!
You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!
You’ll have received an email about the Graduate Outcomes Survey. Check your inbox and take part by 30th November: make your voice count!
IRPH's Alex Christoyannopoulos is speaking today at a conference organised by the French Green Party in the French Senate.
To learn more about the topic, see his paper 'Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine', published earlier this year!
To learn more about the topic, see his paper 'Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine', published earlier this year!
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
IRPH's Alex Christoyannopoulos is speaking today at a conference organised by the French Green Party in the French Senate.
To learn more about the topic, see his paper 'Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine', published earlier this year!
To learn more about the topic, see his paper 'Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine', published earlier this year!
Yesterday, Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe told us about her 'island obsession' as part of the IRPH Research Seminars.
Svalbard (Norway) and Bornholm (Denmark) provide fascinating cases for war studies scholarship, and 2025 geopolitics potentially make them more important than ever.
Svalbard (Norway) and Bornholm (Denmark) provide fascinating cases for war studies scholarship, and 2025 geopolitics potentially make them more important than ever.
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yesterday, Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe told us about her 'island obsession' as part of the IRPH Research Seminars.
Svalbard (Norway) and Bornholm (Denmark) provide fascinating cases for war studies scholarship, and 2025 geopolitics potentially make them more important than ever.
Svalbard (Norway) and Bornholm (Denmark) provide fascinating cases for war studies scholarship, and 2025 geopolitics potentially make them more important than ever.
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📢Interested in applying for #Leverhulme Early Career #Fellowships 2025 (3yrs full time) with @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social? Note our internal demand-management deadline of 4pm on 1 Dec (!), & pls contact potential supervisors asap: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📢Interested in applying for #Leverhulme Early Career #Fellowships 2025 (3yrs full time) with @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social? Note our internal demand-management deadline of 4pm on 1 Dec (!), & pls contact potential supervisors asap: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
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My School is supporting competitive applicants for the @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships (details below). I'm happy to support candidates in my research areas, including (among others) animals in moral/political philosophy.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My School is supporting competitive applicants for the @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships (details below). I'm happy to support candidates in my research areas, including (among others) animals in moral/political philosophy.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
If you want to apply, contact me ASAP. Internal deadline 1 Dec.
Last week, we were very pelased to welcome @maryamaldossari.bsky.social to the department to speak to staff and students. Maryam presented her paper 'Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue: Breaking the Silence on Genocide'.
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Last week, we were very pelased to welcome @maryamaldossari.bsky.social to the department to speak to staff and students. Maryam presented her paper 'Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue: Breaking the Silence on Genocide'.
Are you interested in reading for a PhD in international relations, politics, history, or philosophy at Loughborough University? Fee waivers are available for competitive UK applicants starting their studies in 2026.
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Are you interested in reading for a PhD in international relations, politics, history, or philosophy at Loughborough University? Fee waivers are available for competitive UK applicants starting their studies in 2026.
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
The application deadline is 11 November.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC380/s...
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📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📰Caroline Kennedy-Pipe argues that, over time & in light of the evolution major international conflicts, Nicholas #Rengger developed an increasingly pacifist sensibility:
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
doi.org/10.1163/2772...
Have you seen the brand new 'impact and engagement' pages on our website? Learn more about our department's impactful research on climate change, Arctic geopolitics, emergency management, LGBTQ+ lives in culture, the politics of pregnancy, and much more.
www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...
www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...
Impact and engagement | International Relations, Politics and History | Loughborough University
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Have you seen the brand new 'impact and engagement' pages on our website? Learn more about our department's impactful research on climate change, Arctic geopolitics, emergency management, LGBTQ+ lives in culture, the politics of pregnancy, and much more.
www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...
www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...
Have you looked at our Students as Researchers blog, run by @peteryeandle.bsky.social? Monday's entry comes from the IR student Cerys Organ: 'What is gender anyway?'
This reflects on conversations from Victoria Browne's module Gender and Global Politics.
blog.lboro.ac.uk/irph-student...
This reflects on conversations from Victoria Browne's module Gender and Global Politics.
blog.lboro.ac.uk/irph-student...
What is gender anyway? – Students as Researchers
blog.lboro.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Have you looked at our Students as Researchers blog, run by @peteryeandle.bsky.social? Monday's entry comes from the IR student Cerys Organ: 'What is gender anyway?'
This reflects on conversations from Victoria Browne's module Gender and Global Politics.
blog.lboro.ac.uk/irph-student...
This reflects on conversations from Victoria Browne's module Gender and Global Politics.
blog.lboro.ac.uk/irph-student...
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Next week, thanks to a very generous invitation from Gianfranco Pellegrino, I will be delivering a keynote paper at Luiss, Rome, at a conference on 'Liberal Politics and Nature'. Registration is open. If you're in or near Rome, you should consider coming along!
www.luiss.it/evento/2025/...
www.luiss.it/evento/2025/...
Luiss — Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali
www.luiss.it
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Next week, thanks to a very generous invitation from Gianfranco Pellegrino, I will be delivering a keynote paper at Luiss, Rome, at a conference on 'Liberal Politics and Nature'. Registration is open. If you're in or near Rome, you should consider coming along!
www.luiss.it/evento/2025/...
www.luiss.it/evento/2025/...
Not your typical research seminar...
Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Not your typical research seminar...
Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
Earlier this week, Orit Shimoni (@oritshimoni.bsky.social) and Dan Bern discussed the potential for music and art to foster cross-cultural solidarity with the Pacifism and Nonviolence Research Group, complete with live performances.
Friday saw us welcome over 250 new undergraduate students across our seven programmes. Welcome to Team IRPH!
Pictured: one of the induction talks delivered by Guy Aitchison, and some of the winners of our 'IRPH Bingo', which was more fun than it sounds – honestly!
Pictured: one of the induction talks delivered by Guy Aitchison, and some of the winners of our 'IRPH Bingo', which was more fun than it sounds – honestly!
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Friday saw us welcome over 250 new undergraduate students across our seven programmes. Welcome to Team IRPH!
Pictured: one of the induction talks delivered by Guy Aitchison, and some of the winners of our 'IRPH Bingo', which was more fun than it sounds – honestly!
Pictured: one of the induction talks delivered by Guy Aitchison, and some of the winners of our 'IRPH Bingo', which was more fun than it sounds – honestly!
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📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📢JPN 3:2 now out. SI on #Economics of Politics & Nonviolence guest edited by Christopher Coyne. Includes articles on practical #pacifism, #nonviolent action, polycentric #peace, female property rights, & 1849 Paris Peace Congress. brill.com/view/journal...
Take a look at the latest from Dr Giulia Piccolino!
How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups?
How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups?
My article "Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire",
co-authored with best writing mates Phil Martin (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) and
Jeremy Speight (@uafairbanks.bsky.social)
is finally out Open Access with #SecurityStudies!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/6
co-authored with best writing mates Phil Martin (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) and
Jeremy Speight (@uafairbanks.bsky.social)
is finally out Open Access with #SecurityStudies!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/6
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire
How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups? Ex-rebel leaders often retain access to material resources and informal arme...
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Take a look at the latest from Dr Giulia Piccolino!
How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups?
How do political rulers in post-conflict states manage the threat posed by the former leaders of non-state armed groups?
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Getting ready to welcome our visitors to Day 2 of @lborouniversity.bsky.social @irph.bsky.social September Open Days.
September 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Getting ready to welcome our visitors to Day 2 of @lborouniversity.bsky.social @irph.bsky.social September Open Days.
It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's another successful year for IRPH in the Guardian University Guide. Loughborough lands sixth for International Relations, ninth for Politics, and eleventh for History.
Why do we assume some people are like us, politically speaking? Why do we assume some people aren't?
To find out, take a look at the latest paper from Dr Anthony Kevins (@avkevins.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in IRPH.
To find out, take a look at the latest paper from Dr Anthony Kevins (@avkevins.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in IRPH.
💫Online first:
"How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK"
by @seonghuilee.bsky.social & @avkevins.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
"How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK"
by @seonghuilee.bsky.social & @avkevins.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why do we assume some people are like us, politically speaking? Why do we assume some people aren't?
To find out, take a look at the latest paper from Dr Anthony Kevins (@avkevins.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in IRPH.
To find out, take a look at the latest paper from Dr Anthony Kevins (@avkevins.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in IRPH.
We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.
Great job, Joe; well deserved!
Great job, Joe; well deserved!
We are thrilled to announce that Joe Davidson is the winner of our BIAPT Early Career Prize for 2025! Joe’s work on utopia is just what the field needs at a time when political pessimism prevails. Full announcement below 👇
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-early-...
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-early-...
BIAPT Early-career prize winner 2025 - Joe Davidson - BIAPT
We are very happy to announce that Dr Joe Davidson has been awarded the BIAPT Early-Career Prize for 2025. Following completion of his PhD at King’s College (2022), Cambridge, Davidson won a highly co...
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We are extremely proud to share that Dr Joe Davidson, Vice-Chancellor's Independent Research Fellow here in IRPH, has won the @biapt.bsky.social Early Career Prize for his groundbreaking research and his contributions to the discipline of political theory.
Great job, Joe; well deserved!
Great job, Joe; well deserved!