RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS LED BY EXPERT RESEARCHERS

In the Research Excellence Framework 2021, the Area Studies submission to which PCH members were returned was adjudged by the panel to have 84% of its published work categorised as world-leading or internationally excellent quality. The remaining 16% were considered to be of national significance.

Staff have a wide range of linguistic expertise and research interests, including Security Studies, British Politics, Military History, American History, German History, International Relations, Terrorism Studies, Intelligence Studies, and European Politics.

Regional expertise covers China, Latin America, the United States and Western/ Eastern Europe, as well as Britain.

The overall score for the Area Studies was the highest overall of those groups returned across the University. Publications were in the top quartile nationally.

Recent successes include articles published in, and accepted by, leading journals, such as Intelligence and National Security, Journal of Military History, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Historisches Jahrbuch, Journal of Contemporary China, Review of International Political Economy. Last year, Dr Anna Kruglova published a book with Routledge, entitled Terrorist Recruitment, Propaganda and Banding: Selling Terror Online.