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- Qualifications:BA(Hons), MSc, PhD
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
- Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:+44117 965 6261
- Email:Jane.Kirkpatrick@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Jane is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Her research interests focus on social movements, state-building, using popular culture for teaching and learning, and UK Parliament.
Jane is a Director of E-International Relations, the world's leading open access International Relations website. She is also the Features Editor and oversees the publication of the wide range of interviews and reviews found on the site.
She is active in the
Social Science Research Group at UWE and a member of the
Global Security and Human Rights theme.
Prior to joining UWE, Jane was a researcher on a Swedish Research Council funded project looking at the militarisation social media/the politics of videogames and a Leverhulme Trust funded project on the parliamentary scrutiny of the UK intelligence and security services.
Her doctoral research examined how an international state-building presence shapes social movement development, as well as other grassroots political activism. Using a political opportunity structure, she considered the opportunities available to the social movement and now political party, Vetëvendosje in Kosovo, and the civil society organisation Afghanistan 1400.
In 2022, Jane was awared the British International Studies Association Learning and Teaching Grant for the project 'Unlocking the potential for videogames as a tool for teaching international studies.
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