Staff Profile
Dr Megan Armstrong
Lecturer in International Politics
- Address: School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology
Henry Daysh Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
I joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in International Politics in September 2022 after previously holding positions at Liverpool John Moores University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Birmingham. I currently serve as Co-Convenor of the Politics Pedagogy Cluster (PPC).
Undergraduate Teaching:
- POL1046: Order and Disorder
- POL2110: Critical Security Studies
- POL3046: Final Year Dissertation
- POL3047: Final Year Project
My research has broadly investigated the question: what makes violence possible? I explore how gender and sexuality inform, and are informed by, a continuum of violence in pre-conflict, conflict, and post-conflict spaces. My research is located at the intersection of critical international relations theory and feminist security studies, and my research interests include violent identity politics, popular culture, queer international relations, and critical military studies.
Recently, I have been working on a project that broadly explores neurodivergence in higher education. It asks: what would universities be like if they did not assume their students were neurotypical? This project engages participant action research.
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Articles
- Armstrong MA. Turning to gender analysis in times of upheaval: an intervention piece. Defence Studies 2025, epub ahead of print.
- Armstrong MA. Ethical navigations in participatory action research with students: reflections on a pilot study. Qualitative Research 2025, Epub ahead of print.
- Armstrong MA, Rice CAG, Warwick B. The visual communication of Brexit in Northern Ireland: decoding public imagery on identity, politics and Europe. Territory, Politics, Governance 2024, 12(9), 1390-1408.
- Armstrong MA. Why is the zombie apocalypse so terrible for women? Gender, militarism, and ontological insecurity at the end of the world. International Feminist Journal of Politics 2023, 25(5), 801-818.