Staff Profile

Roles and Responsibilities

Head of the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Political Science (York University, Canada)

MA in Political Science (York University, Canada)

BAH in Political Studies (Queen's University, Canada)

Journal Editorships

I am currently an Editor-in-Chief of International Political Sociology (Oxford University Press)

From 2013-2021 I was an Associate Editor for Critical Studies on Security (Routledge)

From 2012-2018 I was a co-editor of POLITICS (SAGE)

Book Series Editorships 

Popular Culture and World Politics (Routledge) (2013-2023)

Disciplinary 

Chair of the British International Studies Association (2023-2025)

Member of the Publication Subcommittee for the International Studies Association (2022-2027)

Vice Chair of the British International Studies Association (2021-2023)

Secretary of the British International Studies Association (2017-2023)

Member of the Publication Subcommittee for the Political Studies Association (2012-2018)

Teaching Awards and Nominations

2013: Multiple Teaching Excellence Award Nominations for Contribution to Outstanding Feedback; Contribution to Pastoral Support (shortlisted finalist); Postgraduate Taught Supervisor of the Year; and Postgraduate Research Supervisor of the Year.

2012: Learning and Teaching Excellence Award Nomination for Innovative Teaching Methods of the Year 

2011-12: University Teaching Learning and Student Experience Innovation Fund Award for Undergraduate Teaching 

Research Interests

political violence, popular culture and world politics, aesthetics, critical geopolitics, international political sociology

Current Work

Current research projects include political representations in children's literature and scopic regimes in international relations.

Research Video

Drones and the International

Recent Research Publications 

Sound Matters: How Sonic Formations Shape the Nuclear Deterrence and Non-Proliferation Regimes (open access)

Scopic regimes and the visual turn in International Relations

Capturing the multiplicities of resilience through popular geopolitics

Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing: On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence

'Six Theses on Targeted Killing'

'The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture, and political violence'

'How to Read Paddington Bear: Liberalism and the Foreign Subject in A Bear Called Paddington'

Postgraduate Supervision

critical security studies, popular culture, critical geopolitics, international political sociology

Funding

International Studies Association, UK Political Studies Association, the British Academy, and the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Articles

  • Grayson K, Grayson P. University Quality, British League Tables, and Student Stakeholders. Quality in Higher Education 2023, 30(2), 257-284.
  • Guillaume X, Grayson K. Sound Matters: How sonic formations shape the nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation regimes. International Political Sociology 2020, m/a, olaa024.
  • Grayson K, Mawdsley J. Scopic regimes and the visual turn in International Relations: Seeing world politics through the drone. European Journal of International Relations 2019, 25(2), 431-457.
  • Grayson K. The problem of the viewing subject. Global Discourse 2017, 7(2-3), 327-329.
  • Grayson K. Capturing the multiplicities of resilience through popular geopolitics: Aesthetics and homo resilio in Breaking Bad. Political Geography 2017, 57, 24-33.
  • Grayson K. How to Read Paddington Bear: Liberalism and the Foreign Subject in A Bear Called Paddington. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2013, 15(3), 378–393.
  • Mutimer D, Grayson K, Beier JM. Critical Studies on Security: An Introduction. Critical Studies on Security 2013, 1(1), 1-12.
  • Grayson K. The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture, and political violence. Security Dialogue 2012, 43(1), 25-41.
  • Grayson K. Six Theses on Targeted Killing. Politics 2012, 32(2), 120-128.
  • Grayson KA. Human security, neoliberalism and corporate social responsibility. International Politics 2010, 47(5), 497-522.
  • Grayson KA. Dissidence, Richard K. Ashley, and the Politics of Silence. Review of International Studies 2010, 36(4), 1005-1019.
  • Grayson K, Davies M, Philpott S. Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum. Politics 2009, 29(3), 155-163.
  • Grayson KA. Human security as power-knowledge: The biopolitics of a definitional debate. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 2008, 21(3), 383-401.
  • Grayson KA. Promoting responsibility and accountability - Human security and Canadian corporate conduct. International Journal 2006, 61(2), 479-494.
  • Grayson KA. Branding 'transformation' in Canadian Foreign Policy: human security. Canadian Foreign Policy 2004, 11(2), 41-68.
  • Grayson KA. A challenge to the power over knowledge of traditional security studies. Security Dialogue 2004, 35(3), 357.
  • Grayson KA. Securitization and the Boomerang Debate: A Rejoinder to Liotta and Smith Windsor. Security Dialogue 2003, 34(3), 337-344.

• Authored Books

  • Guillaume X, Grayson K. Security Studies: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • Grayson K. Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing: On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence. London: Routledge, 2016.
  • Grayson KA. Chasing Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

• Book Chapters

  • Grayson K. Drones: Political Economy, Networks, Bodies, Agency. In: Mark B. Salter, ed. Making Things International 2: Catalysts and Reactions. Minneapolis, MI, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • Grayson K. The Challenges of Teaching Popular Culture and World Politics. In: Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton, ed. Pop Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies. Bristol: E-International Relations, 2015, pp.160-168.
  • Grayson K. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and the Regulation of Club Drugs in Canada. In: Montigny, E.A, ed. The Real Dope: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp.264-284.
  • Grayson KA. Human Security: Sovereignty and Disorder. In: Chandler, D; Hynek, N, ed. Critical Perspectives on Human Security Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations. London: Routledge, 2010, pp.172-185.
  • Grayson KA. Clandestine Convergence: Human Security, Power, and Canadian Foreign Policy. In: Marshall Beier, J; Wylie, L, ed. Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective. Don Mills Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.85-98.
  • Grayson KA. The persistence of memory: The new surrealism and the 'War on Terror'. In: Dauphinée E; Masters C, ed. The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.83-108.
  • Grayson KA. Discourse and the 'War on Drugs'. In: Beare ME, ed. Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp.145-170.
  • Grayson KA. Human security in the global era. In: Drache D, ed. The Market or the Public Domain? : Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp.229-252.