Section: Staff Profiles

Claire Duncanson

Name
Dr Claire Duncanson
Title
Lecturer
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Rm 3.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4624
E-Mail
Research Interests
gender,gender and international relations,International peace-keeping operations,International peacebuilding,International Peace and Security,gender and security,Feminism
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/claire_duncanson

 

 

 

 

Office Hours

Wednesday 11.00-13.00

Please note that I work part time and the days I will be in the office during Semester 1 will be Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  I will, however, be checking my email most days, and will reply to your message as soon as possible.

Qualifications

  • PhD Politics ( Edinburgh)
  • MPhil Peace Studies (Trinity College Dublin)
  • MA Political Philosophy (Univeristy of York)
  • BA Hons Combined Social Science (University of Durham)

Biographical Statement

Claire is a Lecturer in International Relations, having completed her Ph.D on the construction of military masculinities in the British Army on Peace Support Operations in October 2007.  Prior to her academic career, she has worked for a variety of human rights and international development NGOs, including Amnesty International, Jubilee 2000 and Global Perspective.

Research Interests and Teaching

Claire's research interests lie at the intersection of international security, IR theory and gender politics.  Her work focuses on gender and, in particular, hegemonic masculinity, and applies new theoretical insights to current international issues, such as humanitarian intervention, peace-building and nuclear proliferation.

Claire has been involved in teaching a variety of courses at the University of Edinburgh, including Gender and International Relations, International Security, International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond and Contemporary Feminist Thought.  In 2011-12 she is teaching War and Justice (Semester 2) and the Global Politics of Sex and Gender (Semester 2).

Claire is a member of the International Politics Research Group, the Gender and Politics Research Group, and the Just World Institute.

Publications

Duncanson, C,"Gender and Peacekeeping," in Jenny Mathers (ed) Handbook on Gender and War (forthcoming from Edward Elgar, 2012)

Cornish, H and Duncanson, C, “Feminist Perspectives on British COIN” in Paul Dixon, (ed) ‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counterinsurgency from Malaya to Iraq (forthcoming from Manchester University Press, 2012)

Duncanson, C, "Do Forces for Good contain Real Men?  Military Masculinities in the British Army on Operations Other Than War," in War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World by Annika Bergman-Rosamond & Mark Phythian (eds) (Routledge, 2010).

Duncanson, C, "Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations," International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2009

Duncanson, C & Eschle, C, "Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident", New Political Science, Volume 30 Issue 4, 545, 2008 (special issue on Alternative Globalizations: Challenges to Neoliberalism, Empire, and Militarism). [co-authored on an equal basis]

Duncanson, C, "Forces for Good: Changing Military Masculinities in the UK Armed Forces," New Voices, New Perspectives, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), March 2006

Topics interested in supervising

I welcome enquiries about supervision in all aspects of gender and International Relations, including the military masculinities, gender and peacekeeping/peacebuilding, gender and foreign policy and gender and nuclear weapons.

If you are interested in being supervised by Claire Duncanson, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics

This page was published on 11 January 2012


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