Papers and projects

SPSSQuantitativeBest project Hypothesis Testing on Survey Data with SPSS Seven research questions on happiness, income, religion, security, trust and political interest, tested on an original survey of 80 respondents with one way ANOVA, post hoc comparison, independent samples t tests and correlation. Awarded best project on the course. Term project · 2024 · 45 pages

SociologyArea studies Syria: Society, Culture and Identity A country study running from the Bronze Age kingdoms and Palmyra through the Arab conquest to the Ba'ath party, the two Assad presidencies and the war since 2011, with sections on ethnic and religious composition, social norms, music, poetry and craft. Course presentation · 2024 · 23 slides

DiplomacyEU accession The Cyprus Conflict and Turkey's EU Membership How the division of the island became a standing obstacle to accession, traced through the 1959 settlement, the 1974 intervention, the S-300 crisis, the Annan Plan and the 2004 entry of the Republic of Cyprus into the Union. Seminar presentation · 2024 · 16 slides

Diplomatic historyPoster The 1939 Annexation of Hatay A single sheet on how a Sanjak of mixed population passed from French mandate to Turkish sovereignty: the pressure on the League of Nations, the French calculation on the eve of war, the referendum, and the Syrian refusal that followed. Research poster · single sheet

Cold WarPoster The Berlin Wall: History and Legacy A timeline from the division of Germany to reunification, with the Checkpoint Charlie standoff, the killing of Peter Fechter in the death strip, the night the border opened, and the East Side Gallery that stands on what is left of the Wall. Research poster · single sheet

MacroeconomicsData United States Macroeconomic Indicators A decade of FRED and OECD series read side by side: nominal against real GDP, the deflator, consumer and producer prices, and the labour market through the pandemic shock and the recovery that followed. Midterm project · 2023 · 6 pages

Nuclear politicsSecurity studies Why Did North Korea Develop Nuclear Weapons? A structural realist reading of the programme, from the unresolved Korean War through the collapse of bipolarity to the Agreed Framework and the Six Party Talks, and why sanctions have not changed Pyongyang's calculation. Seminar presentation · 2024 · 17 slides

Media analysisVisual politics Steve Bell and the Politics of the Political Cartoon A media text analysis of four Guardian cartoons on Gaza between 2009 and 2023, tracing how metaphor, credibility and editorial control shaped their reception, and how the last of them ended a thirty year run at the paper. Media text analysis · 2023/24 · 5 pages