Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of International Relations (2021 - Present)

IR1005: Concepts in Global Politics

IR1006: Foreign Policy & Diplomacy

IR4099: Dissertation

Q (they/them) is an SGSSS/ESRC-funded doctoral candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant whose research documents care as political action, building upon cases in India. They examine care and grief in the context of human security and peacebuilding in protest spaces. 

Their research interests include:

- care in global peacebuilding practice
- transforming grief into organisation and political action
- queer-feminist approaches to international relations and international law (alongside TWAIL, CAIL)
- creative and speculative futures for queer and trans bodies in South Asia

Q holds an MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin, where they achieved the James Haire Award for Best Dissertation, and have previously worked with the United Nations ESCAP on disability-inclusive COVID-19 responses in the Asia-Pacific regions, led and managed projects on gender violence in Indian universities as an Honorary Research Fellow with the Center for Human Rights Studies, and studied feminist reimaginations of care economies in India and China as a Senior Research Analyst with the Center for New Economic Studies.