Grant success for three PIRP colleagues!

04 Jun 2025

Congratulations to Michael Bacon, Antara Datta, and Ivica Petrikova for their great work! We look forward to seeing your research develop over the coming months.

Tom Watts has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship

04 Nov 2022

Tom's project draws from practice-theories and semi-structured elite interviews with Washington-based policymakers to explore the impact Trump's presidential legacy on remote warfare.

Daniela Lai's book receives a Honourable Mention at the BISA 2021 awards

23 Jun 2021

Daniela's book "Socioeconomic Justice: International Intervention and Transition in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina" was awarded a Honourable mention in the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded to Dr. Manhua Li

02 Jun 2021

Nathan Widder will be the project coordinator and mentor for a two-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded to Dr Manhua Li to come to the department.

ESRC grant awarded to Dr Thomas Stubbs

21 May 2021

Thomas Stubbs was awarded an ESRC grant of £299,563. The grant will run for two years and includes a postdoc and research assistant who will be based in the department.

Leverhulme Research Fellowship awarded to Dr Michelle Bentley

23 Apr 2021

Michelle Bentley has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The title of the project is “A New Theory of Biological Warfare: Taboo as Policy”.

ESRC grant awarded to Dr Tom Dyson

02 Feb 2021

A Revolution in Military Learning: Uncovering the Potential of Lessons-Learned Processes

ESRC grant awarded to Dr Cassie Schwartz

02 Feb 2021

Project: The diffusion of development: Extending RCTs with agent-based modelling to understand spillovers of development interventions