Associate ProfessorCai Wilkinson

• Securitization studies and Critical Security Studies
• International human rights norms contestation and "traditional values"
• Genders, sexualities and queerness in International Relations
• Interpretive and ethnographic methodologies
• Experiential learning and reflective practice

The primary empirical focus of Cai's work is the post-Soviet space, and particularly Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Methodologically, Cai utilises critical interpretive approaches that foreground lived experiences and are attentive to the situated nature of knowledge production.

Current Projects

• The politics of LGBT rights and "traditional values"
• Queer knowledges and methodology 
• Research ethics and meaningful consent practices
• Teaching and learning with simulations

Research Groups

• POLIS
• Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network