Dr Victoria Basham

Director of Education

As Director of Education for the Strategy and Security Institute, Victoria is involved in developing a unique, interdisciplinary and practitioner-facing Masters level programme that examines the political, legal, social, economic and cultural complexities of enacting strategic approaches to international security.

Victoria joined the University of Exeter in September 2009, having previously been an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol, where she completed a PhD on gender, race and sexuality in the British Armed Forces. She is an External Associate at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Toronto, where she spent time as a visiting scholar in 2007 and 2008.

Victoria’s primary research interests lie at the intersections of critical approaches to security, feminist international relations (particularly in relation to militaries, militarism and militarisation), and international political sociology. Her work examines how identity markers (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and social class) shape the prioritisation, use and perpetration of military force and security practices in liberal democratic societies.