Guest lecturing for IR205 International Security on mass atrocities
Teaching
At LSE, I have honed an award-winning approach to teaching I call research-led storytelling, across courses on conflict and peacebuilding, International Relations theory, American grand strategy, and international security. Before the PhD, I spent eight years teaching Philosophy and English in secondary schools in Barcelona.
Awards and evaluations
- LSE Class Teacher Award, for IR349/494 Conflict and Peacebuilding, 2025
- LSE Highly Commended Class Teacher Award, for IR374 Conflict and Peacebuilding, 2024
- Nominated for the LSE Students’ Union Outstanding Teaching Award, 2024
- Student evaluations averaging 4.6–4.9 out of 5 in Conflict and Peacebuilding and America as a Global Power
- Full teaching evaluations and award nominations available on request.
Approach
In practice, research-led storytelling means that each course, and each seminar, follows a narrative built from research problems, simulations and active participation. My role is not simply to facilitate discussion, but to help students move from immersion in a problem to conceptual analysis and independent critical judgement. In my seminar on war and peace, for example, students end the term negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in role, then watch “The Agreement”, the finale of Derry Girls.
My eight years in secondary schools gave me a long apprenticeship in course design, explanation, feedback and classroom presence. I aim for classrooms that are inclusive, intellectually demanding and socially engaged, where inclusivity means diversifying the routes into complex material, not lowering expectations. This matters most when teaching atrocity, suicide, trauma and colonial violence, where I want students to feel able to participate, disagree and take intellectual risks.
Courses
Postgraduate
- IR4A1 International Relations: Core Theories and Debates (seminar instructor), LSE, 2026-2027
- IR499 Dissertation in International Relations (seminar instructor), LSE, 2026-2027
- IR494 Conflict and Peacebuilding (guest lecturer and seminar instructor), LSE, 2024-2025
Undergraduate
- IR100 Introduction to International Relations: Theories, Concepts, and Debates (seminar instructor), LSE, 2026-2027
- IR205 International Security (guest lecturer), LSE, 2024-2025 and 2026-2027
- IR211 America as a Global Power: FDR to Trump (seminar instructor), LSE Summer School, 2025
- IR349 Conflict and Peacebuilding (guest lecturer and seminar instructor), LSE, 2023-2024 (as IR374) and 2024-2025
Guest lectures
- On mass atrocities, authoritarian peace, and statebuilding, LSE
Courses I can offer
- Critical Theories of War and Peace (sample syllabus) Is peace the opposite of war, or its continuation by other means?
- Psychoanalysis and World Politics How can attention to the political unconscious unsettle dominant rational-actor frameworks in the study of international relations?
- Literature as International Political Theory How do literary and cultural artifacts become sites of ideology and order reproduction?
Supervision
I supervise MSc dissertations in International Relations and am an academic mentor for the MSc International Relations (Research).
I also won LSE funding for an Undergraduate Research Assistant Internship (2026-2027) on my project ‘Who Watches the Watchmen? On the Liminality of Violence in Post-Paramilitary and Criminal Vigilantism’, which I supervise.