Dr Christopher Baker-Beall

Chris’s research interests and thought leadership cover several areas.

First, the security policies of the European Union, including specifically EU counter-terrorism, border-control policy and the response to foreign fighters. Second, Chris' intellectual contribution focuses specifically on critical approaches to the study of security, with a particular focus on counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policy. Third, analysing the UK government’s response to Covid-19 from a Crisis Management perspective. His research focuses on the following areas:

• The European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Response
• Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation
• Counter-Terrorism from a Crisis Management Perspective
• Crisis Management and the UK Government’s Response to Covid-19

Chris is currently working on several articles for publication that represent an intellectual contribution to the field of Disaster Management. First, an article on lessons-learnt from the UK’s management of the coronavirus pandemic to help guide public policy for future cyber crises. Second, an article exploring the influence of crisis and disaster management on UK counter-terrorism, with a specific focus on the Protect and Prepare workstreams of the UK’s Contest strategy.

Chris has supervised the following PhD students to completion:

• Dr Katerina Krulisova - ‘A Discourse Analysis of The Portrayal of Female Protagonists of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’.
• Dr Gareth Mott - ‘The Hands behind the Keyboard’: A Critical Reflection of Imagery and the Securitisation of Cyberterrorism in the UK’.
• Dr Jonathan Kenyon - ‘An Examination of the Role of the Internet on the Radicalisation Process of Extremist Offenders’.
• Dr Monika Kabata - ‘The Intersection of Counter-Terrorism, Migration and Border Control Policies in the European Union: The Securitisation of Migration?’

He is currently supervising a further three students:

• Lubna Al Ibrahim - ‘Investigating Disaster Risk Reduction in the Public Health Sector in the Sultanate of Oman: Exploring New Approaches to Risk Assessment to Enhance Omani Public Health Resilience’.
• Peter Dawes - ‘The Role of Public Policy in Drowning Prevention’.
• Steve Findlay - ‘Undermined or Underpinned? UK Based Volunteer Responders to Crisis and Disaster Events’.

Chris is happy to supervise students in any area of International Relations or Crisis and Disaster Management, especially projects that adopt critical or interpretive approaches to research. He is also happy to supervise research students interested in public policy or security policy more generally, including counter-terrorism, counter-radicalisation, or the emergency management and public policy responses to Covid-19 in countries across the world.