Blogs and Media Coverage

2023

Podcast: Expert Voices in Atrocity Prevention, hosted by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Episode 23, Kate Ferguson and Jess Gifkins

Why and How Should we Queer Atrocity Prevention?, blog post with International Affairs, coauthored with Dean Cooper-Cunningham

Can the UN Protect Queer Rights?, magazine article with Foreign Policy, coauthored with Dean Cooper-Cunningham, Jamie J. Hagen, and Maria Susana Peralta Ramon.

2022

Bringing Queer Perspectives into Atrocity Prevention, blog post with Australian Outlook for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, coauthored with Dean Cooper-Cunningham

Queering Atrocity Prevention report makes National and International impact, coverage of report coauthored with Kate Ferguson, Dean Cooper-Cunningham, Detmer Kremer, and Farida Mostafa

Review of The Responsibility to Protect in Darfur: From Forgotten Conflict to Global Cause and Back, written by David Lanz, Global Responsiblity to Protect journal

2020

Written evidence for UK Government Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on Xinjiang detention camps coauthored with Samuel Jarvis

Coronavirus: UN Security Council finally calls for global ceasefire after US and China delay talks blog post with The Conversation co-authored with Benedict Docherty

2019

Is Brexit Diminishing British Influence at the UN Security Council? blog post with International Affairs co-authored with Samuel Jarvis and Jason Ralph

Brexit weakens Britain’s influence at the UN article in The Economist drawing on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

Brexit causing ‘palpable decline’ in UK influence at the UN article in the Guardian on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

How Will Britain’s Role Change in the UN as Brexit Brews? blog post with Passblue co-authored with Jason Ralph and Samuel Jarvis

Global Britain: Influence after Brexit – blog post with The UK in a Changing Europe – co-authored with Jason Ralph and Samuel Jarvis

UN All-Party Parliamentary Group discusses UNA-UK report on Global Britain in the UN article on the launch of ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report, including statements from Lord Hannay, from the UNA-UK and from the authors

Brexit already weakening UK’s global influence, says study article in the Hindustan Times on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

‘Global Britain’: have we lost our marbles? article in the LSE Brexit Blog from ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

Brexit could send UK’s global influence into ‘free fall’ article in Public Finance International on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

University of Manchester-led report highlights post-Brexit challenges in UN article on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

UK will struggle to maintain influence at the UN without overseas aid commitment article by the University of Southampton on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

UNA-UK launches report on ‘Global Britain’ in the United Nations by Ekklesia on ‘Global Britain in the United Nations’ report

2018

Diplomats Reveal Concerns over UK’s waning Influence on UN Security Council blog post with The Conversation co-authored with Jason Ralph and Samuel Jarvis

2017

The Exclusionary Practice of ‘Penholding’  blog post with MUN Planet

Review of ‘Queer Wars: The New Global Polarisation over Gay Rights’ by Dennis Altman and Jonathan Symons  book review for The Academic Council on the United Nations System

2016

The Politics and Potential of UN Reform blog post for Politics and IR Blog at Leeds Beckett University

Celebrating Excellence  discussion on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice for the University of Exeter

2015

‘Veto Restraint’ and the UN Security Council blog post for Politics and IR Blog at Leeds Beckett University

What is ‘Active Learning’ and why is it Important? blog post for E-International Relations

Strategies for Making Large Lectures more Interactive blog post for E-International Relations

Review of ‘Reforming United Nations Decision-making’ by Martin Niemetz – book review for the Academic Council of the United Nations System

2014

United Nations Association of the UK Youth Conference interview with Jess Gifkins and Aidan Hehir