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Dr

Claire Yorke

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security

  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Centre for Future Defence and National Security
  • Canberra - Centre for Defence

BIO

Claire Yorke joined the Centre for Future Defence and National Security at Deakin University as a
Senior Lecturer in 2023. Her recent work explores the role of empathy and
emotions in international affairs, politics, leadership, and society. She has
taught undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses on these themes
in addition to courses on international relations, diplomacy, statecraft,
politics, and strategy.

In an international career she has lived in the UK, France, Denmark, and the
United States. Between September 2021-2023, she was a Marie Skḻodowska-Curie
Fellowship at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Southern
Denmark, leading a new project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020
Fund on Empathy and International Security (EIS). Prior to that, between
2018-2020, she was a Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at
International Security Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,
Yale University.

She is currently writing two books on empathy and emotions. The first focuses
on their integral role in diplomacy, combining theory and practice with
extensive interviews. Her second book examines how empathy and emotions are
critical to effective political leadership (Yale University Press). In
addition, working with Professor Jack Spence and Dr Alastair Masser, she has
co-edited two volumes on diplomacy, which are were published in April 2021 (IB
Tauris and Bloomsbury).

Her research is interdisciplinary. Alongside these topics, she has been
working on a historical research project with Professor Arne Westad, of Yale
University, on changing ideas of empire in the 1800s.

Claire received her PhD in International Relations from the Department of War
Studies, King's College London, receiving an Elsevier Award for outstanding
scholarship. She has a Masters in Middle East Politics from the University of
Exeter, and a BA in Politics, International Relations and French from
Lancaster University, during which she spent a year at Sciences Po, in Lille,
France.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, Centre for Future Defence and National Security

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Marie-Skłowdowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark30 Aug 2021 - 31 Aug 2023
  • Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow
    Yale University, Jackson Institute and ISS, New Haven, United States27 Aug 2018 - 31 Aug 2020

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Programme Manager, International Security Research Department
    Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, United Kingdom15 Oct 2009 - 17 Sep 2018
  • Parliamentary Researcher
    Parliament of United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom3 Jan 2007 - 9 Oct 2009
  • Parliamentary Intern
    Parliament of United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom20 Sep 2006 - 29 Dec 2006

DEGREES

  • PhD in International Relations
    King's College London, London, United KingdomSep 2013 - Mar 2018
  • MA in Middle East Politics (with Arabic)
    University of Exeter, Exeter, United KingdomSep 2005 - Jul 2006
  • BA in International Relations and Politics with French
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United KingdomSep 2001 - Jul 2005
  • Certificat d'Études Politiques
    Sciences Po, Lille, FranceSep 2003 - Jul 2004

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Centre for Future Defence and National Security