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Ms Hannah Richards
BA, MA, MSc
Expertise
I am a Research Associate on the ERC/UKRI funded, Powerful Perpetrators project. My research is interested in how ideas of justice, violence, and accountability are navigated within trusted and powerful institutions.
Current positions
Research Associate
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
I joined the University of Bristol in April 2024 as a Research Associate on the ERC/UKRI funded, Powerful Perpetrators project. I am also a PhD candidate at Cardiff University where my ESRC-funded research focuses on the spatial, temporal, and intimate dynamics of the British military’s justice system. My thesis is concerned with the institutional and individual responses to sexual violence and other ‘unacceptable behaviours’ committed by military personnel against their colleagues. My primary research interests lie at the intersections of feminist international relations, critical military studies, and political/legal geographies. My research is underpinned by a curiosity about how ideas of justice, violence, and accountability are navigated within powerful and trusted institutions.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ERC Starting Grant: Sex, power and professionals: the nature, extent and administrative justice responses to sexual misconduct and abuse perpetrated by professionals
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/11/2023 to 31/10/2028
Publications
Selected publications
21/11/2023“Backlash of the ‘betrayed’ squaddies”
Critical Military Studies
Studying “Radio Machete”
Journal of Genocide Research
Recent publications
06/05/2024Coming of age within ‘implosion’
Review of International Studies
“Backlash of the ‘betrayed’ squaddies”
Critical Military Studies
Studying “Radio Machete”
Journal of Genocide Research