In this second episode of Insecure: A Security Podcast Season 2we discuss the future of Security Studies with our amazing guests all working at the University of Leeds. We will be answering questions which were put to us by undergraduate students taking the Security Studies module at the University of Leeds and addressing a key question: what is the future of security studies?

Our guests 

• Dr Louise Pears, Lecturer of Global Security Challenges. Louise works on Feminist Security Studies, Popular Culture and World Politics, Race and Postcolonial IR and in CTS. 
• Pr Jack Holland, Professor of Global Security Challenges. Jack is the co-director of ‘Centre for Global Security Challenges’, and editor of British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Jack's work is known for its substantive contributions on US, UK, and Australian foreign and security policy as well as theoretical contributions to (critical) constructivism and methodological contributions to discourse analytic approaches.
• Lucas de Belmont, postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Lucas' research investigates international responsibilities to protect indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon. 
• Mohamed Abdi Mohamood, postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Mohamed's research encapsulates the locally owned ‘hybrid’ peace in Somalia and the gendered implications of different peace building models. 
• Dr Laura Considine, Associate Professor in International Politics. Laura is the co-director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges and her research project involves looking at the role of gender in nuclear weapons in politics and on a project on how to understand the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons 
• Dr James Worrall, Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies. James' research lies in the fields of Comparative Politics, Security Studies and IR, with particular geographical concentration on the Gulf and the Levant. He is the co-editor of the Journal Civil Wars.

To find out more about cutting edge research of the CGSC

Visit the Centre for Global Security Challenges website.

What’s next? 

Stay tuned, our next episode will be coming out next week and we will be looking at ‘Security in time of Polycrisis’ theme of the CGSC x EJIS Conference which happened in May 2023 at the University of Leeds. 

Get in touch with us at insecurepodcast@outlook.com or check our twitter @InsecurePod for more information.

It was Marine and Harry for Insecure: A Security Podcast. 

Credits to Dr Louise Pears who gave us the opportunity to produce and host this special episode with her students on Security Studies Module at the University of Leeds.

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