Leah is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, her research project looks at domestic violence within international policy, through a poststructural and queer lens. She is also Social Inclusion Lead, Project Manager and EDI Chair at Chatham House, working primarily on the Cross-border Conflict, Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme.

She has authored several journal articles, book chapters, editorials, and shorter commentary pieces on gender, sustainable development and youth engagement. This includes co-authoring ‘Getting down to business? Critical discourse analysis of perspectives on the private sector in sustainable development’ in Sustainable Development, ‘Pandemic drowns out women’s voices’ in The World Today and ‘Gender and Nation’ in the edited volume Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives (Routledge, 2018).

Leah holds an MSc in International Relations Theory from the London School of Economics and a BA in Politics and International Relations from Macquarie University Sydney.

Research expertise

• Gender
• Violence
• Conflict
• Poststructuralism
• Queer Theory
• Race

Research methods

• Poststructural policy analysis
• Etnography
• Discourse analysis