The Global Security, Rights and Development (GSRD) research group focuses its expertise to make major contributions to research and debates in two principal thematic areas of International Relations research:
- Security and Governance
- Rights, Justice, and Development
GSRD serves as a hub for research and teaching on the normative theoretical and empirical debates on historical and contemporary challenges in global politics, the implications for such challenges through area studies and proposals towards addressing some of the world’s enduring and emerging challenges.
As such, members of the group conduct research that addresses AHRC priorities of researching contemporary challenges and discovering ourselves, and ESRC’s strategic theme of building a secure and resilient world.
Researchers in the centre are recognised for their expertise in areas ranging from international security and development to global drug policy, environmental politics, migration, race relations, gender and human rights, and for their knowledge of particular geographical areas such as Africa, the US, Europe and Southeast Asia.
The research group hosts three of the department’s Masters programmes in International Relations, Development and Human Rights, International Security and Development. Members of the group also supervise PhD research and welcome PhD proposals from potential students on a range of themes in International Relations.