Research Interests of Associated Subjects

A number of staff members in other Subjects at Glasgow University are associated with the Centre and contribute regularly to the seminar series and conferences. 

Archaeology

Professor W S Hanson's main research interests include Roman Britain, particularly the impact of the Roman conquest on the indigenous population and Roman frontiers, mainly in the western Empire, particularly their nature, function, development, and interaction across them.


Politics

Professor Stephen White - Professor of International Politics. Research interests include Russian and Soviet politics, especially elections and voting, regional aspects of political behaviour, Putin Leadership, implications in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova of EU and NATO expansion as well as Comparative postcommunist politics

Dr A. Hussain Post-doctoral Ministry of Defence research fellow: research into equal opportunities and human resource management in the British Armed Forces, University of Glasgow/Ministry of Defence (London), 1999-2002. Other research interests include Politics and management of race and ethnicity, Ethnic minority recruitment into public sector institutions, Civil-military relations, Equal opportunities and diversity, Immigration, nationality and identity.

Professor Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair in International Relations in the Department of Politics.  Her research focuses mainly on Strategy from Antiquity to the present.  It includes also “small wars” (insurgencies and counter-insurgency), nuclear strategy, and military exercises.  She has also written on war and memory, strategic culture and “national styles”. 


Economic and Social History

Professor Ray Stokes' research interests include 20th century German business and economic history; history of technology and innovation in national and international context; impact of state and military on industry and technology.


Glasgow Centre for the Child and Society

Professor Stewart Asquith, Professor for the European Study of the Child. Research and consultancy specialities include children's rights, sexual exploitation and juvenile justice and the development of policy and practice in the children's field.


Mechanical Engineering

Dr. R. Thomson's research and consultancy specialities include large deformation mechanics, impact and damage, and the constitutive modelling of non-linear materials. Currently, Dr Thomson is involved with the Ballistics and Impact Group at Glasgow, who are interested in the deformation and damage produced in materials and structures subjected to impact loading.


Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Professor N. Barltrop, John Elder Chair of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Research Director. Research interests include dynamics of fixed and floating offshore structures, offshore engineering, structural design of ships, offshore and civil engineering construction, reliability based structural and fatigue analysis of ships and offshore structures, wind engineering.


School of Oriental and African Studies, University College London

Professor Iain Scobbie, Professorial Researcher (Hotung) at the School of Law. Research Interests include the International Court of Justice, examining its jurisprudence, procedure, the role of its judges and the methods of reasoning they employ; the fundamental concepts of and theoretical approaches to international law; and the impact of armed conflict on treaty relationships.


English Literature

Dr. Kate McLoughlin specialises in war representation and its theory.  She is the author of Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (2007) and editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to War Writing.  She is currently working on a monograph, Authoring War, about literary responses to the challenges of representing conflict, from the Iliad to Iraq.