Dr Brieg Powel

My research and teaching explores the 'international' and the effects of relations between human polities upon it and on other communities. This includes the study of long-term historical processes from decentred global perspectives, expanding our knowledge of international relations through historical sociology and from interdisciplinary research. I also have a particular interest in links between warfare, politics, and society, as well as in relations in the deeper past. I was formerly co-convenor of the British International Studies Association's working group on Historical Sociology in International Relations.

I was Director of Education and Student Experience for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology 2022-23, interim Director of Education for the Department of Politics in 2022, and Director of Taught Programmes for the College of Social Science and International Studies from 2020-22.

I have previously held academic positions at the University of Plymouth and at Aberystwyth University. Before that, I was an English as a foreign language teacher in Madrid. I am bilingual in Welsh and English, have advanced French and Spanish, and enough Farsi to teach children the basics of life. I am also a qualified and registered football (soccer) coach.

Orchid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-8637

Biography:

I rejoined the University of Exeter from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, in Spetember 2018. I previously worked at Plymouth University (2008-2012) and as a Teaching Fellow at Exeter (2007-8). I was awarded my PhD on EU democracy Promotion in Tunisia from Exeter in 2009. Born in Swansea, I am a fluent Welsh-speaker and have enough French and Spanish to follow a grisly police drama. I'm curently working through my FA football coaching badges with the dream of turning a local children's football team into the next Swansea City.

I am a regular contributor in Welsh and English media productions, including commenting on international affairs, seucirty, and Middle Eastern politics for BBC Cymru and BBC Wales since 2004. I have contributed to many Welsh- and English-language television documentaries on subjects including the Vietnam and Korean Wars and the campaigns of MAC and the FWA in Wales during the 1960s. One of these productions, a documentary on the Welsh photographer Phillips Jones Griffiths with Rondo Media, won a Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards for the best foreign feature in 2017 (philipjonesgriffiths.org/news-events/pjg-documentary-wins-hollywood-award/).

Research supervision:

I am particulalry happy to supervise research projects in the fields of global/international historical sociology, International Relations theory, and historical IR.