Lindsay Clark

I joined the department as lecturer in International Relations in 2022.

I received my PhD from the University of Birmingham, after which I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, and then a European Research Council research fellow at the University of Southampton.

My work to date has focused on new technologies of warfare, particularly armed drones and lethal autonomous weapons systems. I worked on the "New Technologies and Ethics of War" project as UNSW Canberra, and the "DRONETHICS" project at the University of Southampton.

I am particularly interested in the gendered ramifications of the development of new technologies and their use in conflict scenarios. More broadly I am interested in the intersection between security and gender.

Beyond technologies of war, my research looks at different ways of conceptualising warfare and different modes of understanding the gendered nature of warfare - for example, my book Gender and Drone Warfare uses the methodological framework of Haunting to investigate how drones can simultaneously destabilize and reinforce our understandings of contemporary military masculinities.

I welcome research proposals in the following areas:
- Technologies of war
- Technology and IR
- Feminist International Relations
- Embodied International Relations
- Narrative International Relations
- Creative methodologies/frameworks