The Economic and Social Research Council of the UK will sponsor my research on piracy and maritime security for the next three years. The project titled “Counter-Piracy Governance – A Praxiographic Analysis” is funded under the Future Research Leader Scheme. In the project I will study the different institutional responses to piracy and maritime insecurities with a focus on East and West Africa.

 In May 2013 and from October to December 2013 I will join the Centre for Advanced Security Theory at Copenhagen University as a visiting fellow. During my stay I will work on a number of publications which intend to developing a framework for studying problematization practices. Using the case of maritime piracy I intend to combine insights from Actor-Network Theory and International Practice Theory, as well as Securitization.

In Spring ’12 I will join the Cardiff School of European Studies as a Lecturer in International Relations.

In August (17-20, 2011) I will participate in the Conference of the World International Studies Comittee (WISC). I present two papers, one on the knowledge politics of the United Nations drawing on my recent research on piracy, and a paper on methodology discussing praxiography in international relations.

I have joined the Greenwich Maritime Institute as a Leverhulme visiting fellow to continue my research on contemporary maritime piracy.