Laura Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, she gained her PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. Laura Rose's thesis examined the recent trend to gender nuclear weapons policy, employing a discursive-affective approach to understand what happens when gender-talk meets nukespeak. 

Her current research is on feminist investigations of nuclear weapons politics, with an interest in the politics of knowledge production and the reinforcement of the status quo. Her research investigates forums of nuclear weapons diplomacy, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Laura Rose conducts this research as a member of the Atomic Anxiety in the Third Nuclear Age project team at the University of Glasgow. The Atomic Anxiety project seeks to understand how arms control and disarmament efforts can reduce the risk of nuclear war.

Laura Rose has taught on Politics and IR modules (University of Leeds), including on nuclear weapons politics, political theory and the making of the modern world. She is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE.

Alongside her academic research, Laura Rose collaborates with think tanks and international policy organisations working on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Recent projects include commissioned studies on Feminist Foreign Policy for the European Union Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (EUNPDC) and on the implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (BASIC). She has also convened a global Community of Practice on gender and impact in nuclear policy with BASIC. These engagements bring her academic research into dialogue with policymakers, practitioners and civil society actors to advance nuclear disarmament and inclusive approaches to security.

• Nuclear weapons politics (non-proliferation and disarmament)
• Politics of language and discourse
• Feminist Security Studies 
• Feminist and Postcolonial approaches to IR 
• Discursive and affective methods 

Research groups

• International Relations

Prior publications

• ESRC 1+ 3 Collaborative Studentship for Doctoral Studies (University of Leeds)

• Associate Fellowship of Advance HE
• Co-convenor of BISA's Global Nuclear Order Working Group
• Member of BISA
• Member of EISA
• Non-Resident Fellow of British American Security Information Council (BASIC)