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Professor Laura J. Shepherd

FHEA (UK)

Phone

+61 2 9351 1907

Email

laura.shepherd@sydney.edu.au

Address

A02 - Social Sciences Building

The University of Sydney

Websites

LSE Page

BlueSky

Biographical details

Laura J. Shepherd is a Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Laura served as President of the International Studies Association(2023-2024). She is a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2018-2022), and has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security in London, UK, since 2016.

Laura’s primary research focuses on the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda, and attendant dynamics of gender, violence, and peace and security governance.Laura has conducted projects investigating logics of gender and space in UN peacebuilding discourse and examining advocacy around, and implementation of, the Women, Peace and Security agenda at global, national, and local levels. Both projects received funding from the Australian Research Council (DP130100707 and DP160100212 respectively). Laura's Future Fellowship research investigated the relationship between the Women, Peace and Security agenda and efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism, with a specific focus on Australia, Sweden, and the UK (FT170100037). Laura was a co-director on the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice, and Security Hub (2019-2024), and a co-investigator on research projects funded in the Law and Policy Frameworks stream and the Methodological Innovation stream.

Research interests

Feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial theories of world politics; gender; peace; security; the Women, Peace and Security agenda; institutions of global governance

Teaching and supervision

Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Laura normally welcomes enquiries from prospective research students interested in feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives on security studies and international relations, the United Nations system, the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and the politics of popular culture. Laura is not accepting postgraduate research students for 2025 entry.

Associations

Member, British International Studies Association (UK)
Member, International Studies Association (USA)

Awards and honours

University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Mentoring Award, in recognition of sustained, generous and high-quality mentoring over a number of years (2021).
University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research, in recognition of outstanding contributions in both research and education (2021).
International Studies Association Ladd Hollister Service Award, in recognition of outstanding service and commitment to our Association (2021).

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Cyberspace: Prefiguring Spaces of Settler Security	Sulagna BASU
The Manifestation of Hybridity at Hybrid Courts: A Gender and Race Analysis of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia	Charlotte CARNEY
The Functions of Masculinity within the Contemporary Australian Extreme Right: Gendered Discourses Victimisation and the Erosion of Masculinity	Lindsay DAY
The Pleasures of War	Jackie DENT
Gender, Sexuality and the IMF	Georgia PETERS
Deradicalising Misogyny: Countering Violence and Extremism the Manosphere	Kate SCOTT
Exploring the links between gender radicalisation and the prevention and countering of violent extremism in the Maldives.	Ibrahim THAYYIB

Selected publications

The Self, and Other Stories Being, Knowing, Writing

(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023)

Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work

(Routledge, 2021)

Handbook on Gender and Violence

(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security

(Routledge, 2019)

Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy

(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories

(Taylor and Francis, 2012)

Gender, Violence and Security

(Zed Books Ltd, 2008)

Publications

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Books

Shepherd, L. (2023). The Self, and Other Stories Being, Knowing, Writing. United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [More Information]
Hamilton, C., Mundkar, A., Shepherd, L. (2021). Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work. United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2021). Narrating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Logics of Global Governance. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2012). Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2008). Gender, Violence and Security. London: Zed Books Ltd.

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Edited Books

Shepherd, L. (2021). The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Place, Space, and Knowledge Production. United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hall, L., Weissman, A., Shepherd, L. (2021). Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternality in Global Politics. Oxford and New Yorl: Oxford University Press.
Soumita, B., Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2020). New Directions for Women, Peace and Security. United Kingdom: Bristol University Press.
Shepherd, L. (2019). Handbook on Gender and Violence. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Gentry, C., Shepherd, L., Sjoberg, L. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.
Shepherd, L., Hamilton, C. (2016). Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age. Abingdon: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2015). Gender Matters in Global Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2013). Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Ahall, L., Shepherd, L. (2012). Gender, Agency and Political Violence. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

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Book Chapters

George, N., Koo, K., Shepherd, L. (2019). Gender and the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda. In Caron E. Gentry, Laura J. Shepherd, Laura Sjoberg (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security, (pp. 311-322). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). Gender and violence: tools to think with. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and Violence, (pp. 1-11). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). Security. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and Violence, (pp. 146-158). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). WPS and adopted security council resolutions. In Sara E. Davies, Jacqui True (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security, (pp. 98-109). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2018). Militarisation. In Roland Bleiker (Eds.), Visual Global Politics, (pp. 209-214). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). The Women, Peace and Security Agenda at the United Nations. In Anthony Burke and Rita Parker (Eds.), Global Insecurity: Futures of Global Chaos and Governance, (pp. 139-158). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Authors and Authenticity: Knowledge, Representation and Research in Contemporary World Politics. In Laura J. Shepherd, & Caitlin Hamilton (Eds.), Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age, (pp. 32-47). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Feminist Security Studies. In Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Eds.), Handbook of Gender in World Politics, (pp. 263-270). Chelthenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Feminist theory/gender studies. In Xavier Guillaume, Pinar Bilgin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, (pp. 17-25). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Hamilton, C. (2016). Gender and Peacebuilding. In S Sharoni, J Welland, L Steiner, J Pedersen (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and War. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Shepherd, L. (2015). Peacebuilding. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, (pp. 258-281). Abingdon: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2014). The Road to (and from) 'Recovery': A Multidisciplinary Feminist Approach to Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding. In Gina Heathcote and Dianne Otto (Eds.), Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security, (pp. 99-117). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Feminist security studies. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods, (pp. 11-23). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Gender and global social justice: Peacebuilding and the politics of participation. In H. Widdows and N.J Smith (Eds.), Global Social Justice, (pp. 128-137). London, UK: Taylor and Francis. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Introduction: Critical approaches to security in contemporary global politics. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods, (pp. 1-8). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Rowley, C., Shepherd, L. (2012). Contemporary politics: Using the 'F' word and teaching gender in international relations. Teaching Politics and International Relations, (pp. 146-161). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK. [More Information]

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Journals

Barthwal-Datta, M., Krystalli, R., Shepherd, L. (2024). Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in the world politics classroom. Journal of International Political Theory. [More Information]
Boer Cueva, A., Griffin, P., Shepherd, L. (2023). Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda. Journal of International Relations and Development, 26(3), 453-480. [More Information]
Boer Cueva, A., Catterson, K., Shepherd, L. (2023). Unlearning the Discipline: Decolonising International Relations Through Pedagogy and Praxis. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 69(3), 422-441. [More Information]
Alba, B., Giri, K., Hamilton, C., Shepherd, L. (2022). Funding Precarity and Women's Peace Work in Colombia, Nepal, and Northern Ireland. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(3). [More Information]
Hamilton, C., McSwiney, J., Gum Naam, N., Shepherd, L. (2022). The Social Life of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A Digital Social Network Analysis. Global Society, 36(1), 1-24. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2022). White feminism and the governance of violent extremism. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(3), 727-749. [More Information]
Hamilton, C., Pagot, R., Shepherd, L. (2021). BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates. International Affairs, 97(3), 739-757. [More Information]
Adams, S., Bekker, S., Fan, Y., Gordon, T., Shepherd, L., Slavich, E., Waters, D. (2021). Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right. Higher Education, 83(4), 787-807. [More Information]
Asante, D., Chilmeran, Y., Shepherd, L., Tiller, Z. (2021). The impact of UN Security Council resolution 2242 in Australia, the UK and Sweden. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 75(4), 388-409. [More Information]
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2021). Women, Peace and Security: Mapping the (Re)Production of a Policy Ecosystem. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(3), ogaa045. [More Information]
Asante, D., Shepherd, L. (2020). Gender and countering violent extremism in women, peace and security national action plans. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(3), 311-330. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2020). Knowing Women, Peace and Security: new issues and new modes of encounter. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22(5), 625-628. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2020). Situating Women, Peace and Security: theorizing from "the local". International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22(4), 456-461. [More Information]
Kinsella, H., Shepherd, L. (2020). The 'brutal fecundity of violence': Feminist methodologies of International Relations. Review of International Studies, 46(3), 299-303. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2020). The paradox of prevention in the women, peace and security agenda. European Journal of International Security, 5(3), 315-331. [More Information]
Kinsella, H., Shepherd, L. (2019). 'Well, what is the feminist perspective on international affairs?': Theory/practice. International Affairs, 95(6), 1209-1213. [More Information]
Clapton, W., Shepherd, L. (2019). Ethics Ex Machina: popular culture and the plural futures of politics. Australian Journal of Political Science, 54(4), 531-542. [More Information]
Fan, Y., Shepherd, L., Slavich, E., Waters, D., Stone, M., Abel, R., Johnston, E. (2019). Gender and cultural bias in student evaluations: Why representation matters. PloS One, 14(2), 1-16. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2018). Activism in/and the Academy: Reflections on "Social Engagement". Journal of Narrative Politics, 5(1), 45-56. [More Information]
Mundkur, A., Shepherd, L. (2018). Civil Society Participation in Women, Peace and Security Governance: Insights from Australia. Security Challenges, 14(2), 83-103. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2018). Review of The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peace-building by Catherine Goetze. International Studies Review.
Shepherd, L. (2017). Aesthetics, ethics, and visual research in the digital age: 'Undone in the face of the otter'. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45(2), 214-222. [More Information]
Clapton, W., Shepherd, L. (2017). Lessons from Westeros: Gender and power in Game of Thrones. Politics, 37(1), 5-18. [More Information]
Basu, S., Shepherd, L. (2017). Prevention in pieces: representing conflict in the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Global Affairs, 3(4-5), 441-453. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Review of Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, by Elina Penttinen. Feminist Review, (115).
Shepherd, L. (2017). Review of Queer International Relations: Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge, by Cynthia Weber. International Affairs, 93(1).
Shepherd, L. (2017). Whose international is it anyway? Women's peace activists as international relations theorists. International Relations, 31(1), 76-80. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Making war safe for women? National Action Plans and the militarisation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. International Political Science Review, 37(3), 324-335. [More Information]
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2016). Reintroducing women, peace and security. International Affairs, 92(2), 249-254. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Research as Gendered Intervention: Feminist Research Ethics and the Self in the Research Encounter. Critica Contemporanea: Revista de Teoria Politica, 6, 1-15.
Shepherd, L. (2016). Review of Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations, by Lauren Wilcox. Politics and Gender, 12(3).
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2016). The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. International Affairs, 92(2), 373-392. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Victims of Violence or Agents of Change? Representations of Women in UN Peacebuilding Discourse. Peacebuilding, 4(2), 121-135. [More Information]
George, N., Shepherd, L. (2016). Women, Peace and Security: Exploring the implementation and integration of UNSCR 1325. International Political Science Review, 37(3), 297-306. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). 'Ideas/matter: Conceptualising foreign policy practice', published as part of a symposium on Strategic Narratives: Communication, Power, and the New World Order. Critical Studies on Security, 3(3), 334-337. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). Complicating security: bodies out of place. Critical Studies on Security, 3(1), 106. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). Constructing civil society: Gender, power and legitimacy in United Nations peacebuilding discourse. European Journal of International Relations, 21(4), 887-910. [More Information]
Hamilton, C., Shepherd, L. (2015). The construction of gender-sensitive peacebuilding in Australia: 'Advance Australia Fair'. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 69(4), 373-393. [More Information]
Maddison, S., Shepherd, L. (2014). Peacebuilding and the postcolonial politics of transitional justice. Peacebuilding, 2(3), 253-269. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., True, J. (2014). The Women, Peace and Security agenda and Australian leadership in the world: from rhetoric to commitment? Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(3), 257-284. [More Information]
Grey, R., Shepherd, L. (2013). "Stop Rape Now?": Masculinity, Responsibility, and Conflict-related Sexual Violence. Men and Masculinities, 16(1), 115-135. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation. International Studies Perspectives, 14(4), 436-439. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Sjoberg, L. (2012). Trans- bodies in/of war(s): Cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy. Feminist Review, 101(1), 5-23. [More Information]

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Edited Journals

Shepherd, L. (2016). Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives. Peacebuilding, 4(2).
George, N., Shepherd, L. (2016). Women, Peace and Security in Regional, National, and Local Contexts: Exploring the Implementation and Integration Of UNSCR 1325. International Political Science Review, 37(4).
Shepherd, L., Kirby, P. (2016). Women, Peace and Security: Reflecting on the Past, Assessing the Present, Setting an Agenda for the Next Decade. International Affairs, 92(2).
Shepherd, L., True, J. (2014). Australia on the UN Security Council: Progressing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(3).

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Other

Shepherd, L. (2016), Interview with Laura J. Shepherd, by Elizabeth Dauphinee, published in Journal of Narrative Politics, 2(2).

By Year

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2024

Barthwal-Datta, M., Krystalli, R., Shepherd, L. (2024). Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in the world politics classroom. Journal of International Political Theory. [More Information]

2023

Boer Cueva, A., Griffin, P., Shepherd, L. (2023). Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda. Journal of International Relations and Development, 26(3), 453-480. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2023). The Self, and Other Stories Being, Knowing, Writing. United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [More Information]
Boer Cueva, A., Catterson, K., Shepherd, L. (2023). Unlearning the Discipline: Decolonising International Relations Through Pedagogy and Praxis. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 69(3), 422-441. [More Information]

2022

Alba, B., Giri, K., Hamilton, C., Shepherd, L. (2022). Funding Precarity and Women's Peace Work in Colombia, Nepal, and Northern Ireland. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(3). [More Information]
Hamilton, C., McSwiney, J., Gum Naam, N., Shepherd, L. (2022). The Social Life of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A Digital Social Network Analysis. Global Society, 36(1), 1-24. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2022). White feminism and the governance of violent extremism. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(3), 727-749. [More Information]

2021

Hamilton, C., Pagot, R., Shepherd, L. (2021). BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates. International Affairs, 97(3), 739-757. [More Information]
Hamilton, C., Mundkar, A., Shepherd, L. (2021). Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work. United Kingdom: Routledge. [More Information]
Adams, S., Bekker, S., Fan, Y., Gordon, T., Shepherd, L., Slavich, E., Waters, D. (2021). Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Punish[ing] Those Who Fail To Do Their Gender Right. Higher Education, 83(4), 787-807. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2021). Narrating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Logics of Global Governance. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Asante, D., Chilmeran, Y., Shepherd, L., Tiller, Z. (2021). The impact of UN Security Council resolution 2242 in Australia, the UK and Sweden. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 75(4), 388-409. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2021). The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Place, Space, and Knowledge Production. United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hall, L., Weissman, A., Shepherd, L. (2021). Troubling Motherhood: Interrogations of Maternality in Global Politics. Oxford and New Yorl: Oxford University Press.
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2021). Women, Peace and Security: Mapping the (Re)Production of a Policy Ecosystem. Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(3), ogaa045. [More Information]

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2020

Asante, D., Shepherd, L. (2020). Gender and countering violent extremism in women, peace and security national action plans. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(3), 311-330. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2020). Knowing Women, Peace and Security: new issues and new modes of encounter. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22(5), 625-628. [More Information]
Soumita, B., Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2020). New Directions for Women, Peace and Security. United Kingdom: Bristol University Press.
Shepherd, L. (2020). Situating Women, Peace and Security: theorizing from "the local". International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22(4), 456-461. [More Information]
Kinsella, H., Shepherd, L. (2020). The 'brutal fecundity of violence': Feminist methodologies of International Relations. Review of International Studies, 46(3), 299-303. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2020). The paradox of prevention in the women, peace and security agenda. European Journal of International Security, 5(3), 315-331. [More Information]

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2019

Kinsella, H., Shepherd, L. (2019). 'Well, what is the feminist perspective on international affairs?': Theory/practice. International Affairs, 95(6), 1209-1213. [More Information]
Clapton, W., Shepherd, L. (2019). Ethics Ex Machina: popular culture and the plural futures of politics. Australian Journal of Political Science, 54(4), 531-542. [More Information]
Fan, Y., Shepherd, L., Slavich, E., Waters, D., Stone, M., Abel, R., Johnston, E. (2019). Gender and cultural bias in student evaluations: Why representation matters. PloS One, 14(2), 1-16. [More Information]
George, N., Koo, K., Shepherd, L. (2019). Gender and the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda. In Caron E. Gentry, Laura J. Shepherd, Laura Sjoberg (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security, (pp. 311-322). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). Gender and violence: tools to think with. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and Violence, (pp. 1-11). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). Handbook on Gender and Violence. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Gentry, C., Shepherd, L., Sjoberg, L. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). Security. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and Violence, (pp. 146-158). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2019). WPS and adopted security council resolutions. In Sara E. Davies, Jacqui True (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security, (pp. 98-109). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

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2018

Shepherd, L. (2018). Activism in/and the Academy: Reflections on "Social Engagement". Journal of Narrative Politics, 5(1), 45-56. [More Information]
Mundkur, A., Shepherd, L. (2018). Civil Society Participation in Women, Peace and Security Governance: Insights from Australia. Security Challenges, 14(2), 83-103. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2018). Militarisation. In Roland Bleiker (Eds.), Visual Global Politics, (pp. 209-214). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2018). Review of The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peace-building by Catherine Goetze. International Studies Review.

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2017

Shepherd, L. (2017). Aesthetics, ethics, and visual research in the digital age: 'Undone in the face of the otter'. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45(2), 214-222. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2017). Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Clapton, W., Shepherd, L. (2017). Lessons from Westeros: Gender and power in Game of Thrones. Politics, 37(1), 5-18. [More Information]
Basu, S., Shepherd, L. (2017). Prevention in pieces: representing conflict in the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Global Affairs, 3(4-5), 441-453. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Review of Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, by Elina Penttinen. Feminist Review, (115).
Shepherd, L. (2017). Review of Queer International Relations: Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge, by Cynthia Weber. International Affairs, 93(1).
Shepherd, L. (2017). The Women, Peace and Security Agenda at the United Nations. In Anthony Burke and Rita Parker (Eds.), Global Insecurity: Futures of Global Chaos and Governance, (pp. 139-158). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2017). Whose international is it anyway? Women's peace activists as international relations theorists. International Relations, 31(1), 76-80. [More Information]

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2016

Shepherd, L. (2016). Authors and Authenticity: Knowledge, Representation and Research in Contemporary World Politics. In Laura J. Shepherd, & Caitlin Hamilton (Eds.), Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age, (pp. 32-47). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Building Peace: Feminist Perspectives. Peacebuilding, 4(2).
Shepherd, L. (2016). Feminist Security Studies. In Jill Steans and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Eds.), Handbook of Gender in World Politics, (pp. 263-270). Chelthenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Feminist theory/gender studies. In Xavier Guillaume, Pinar Bilgin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, (pp. 17-25). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Hamilton, C. (2016). Gender and Peacebuilding. In S Sharoni, J Welland, L Steiner, J Pedersen (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and War. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Shepherd, L. (2016), Interview with Laura J. Shepherd, by Elizabeth Dauphinee, published in Journal of Narrative Politics, 2(2).
Shepherd, L. (2016). Making war safe for women? National Action Plans and the militarisation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. International Political Science Review, 37(3), 324-335. [More Information]
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2016). Reintroducing women, peace and security. International Affairs, 92(2), 249-254. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2016). Research as Gendered Intervention: Feminist Research Ethics and the Self in the Research Encounter. Critica Contemporanea: Revista de Teoria Politica, 6, 1-15.
Shepherd, L. (2016). Review of Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations, by Lauren Wilcox. Politics and Gender, 12(3).
Kirby, P., Shepherd, L. (2016). The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. International Affairs, 92(2), 373-392. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Hamilton, C. (2016). Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age. Abingdon: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2016). Victims of Violence or Agents of Change? Representations of Women in UN Peacebuilding Discourse. Peacebuilding, 4(2), 121-135. [More Information]
George, N., Shepherd, L. (2016). Women, Peace and Security in Regional, National, and Local Contexts: Exploring the Implementation and Integration Of UNSCR 1325. International Political Science Review, 37(4).
George, N., Shepherd, L. (2016). Women, Peace and Security: Exploring the implementation and integration of UNSCR 1325. International Political Science Review, 37(3), 297-306. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Kirby, P. (2016). Women, Peace and Security: Reflecting on the Past, Assessing the Present, Setting an Agenda for the Next Decade. International Affairs, 92(2).

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2015

Shepherd, L. (2015). 'Ideas/matter: Conceptualising foreign policy practice', published as part of a symposium on Strategic Narratives: Communication, Power, and the New World Order. Critical Studies on Security, 3(3), 334-337. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). Complicating security: bodies out of place. Critical Studies on Security, 3(1), 106. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). Constructing civil society: Gender, power and legitimacy in United Nations peacebuilding discourse. European Journal of International Relations, 21(4), 887-910. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2015). Gender Matters in Global Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.
Shepherd, L. (2015). Peacebuilding. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, (pp. 258-281). Abingdon: Routledge.
Hamilton, C., Shepherd, L. (2015). The construction of gender-sensitive peacebuilding in Australia: 'Advance Australia Fair'. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 69(4), 373-393. [More Information]

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2014

Shepherd, L., True, J. (2014). Australia on the UN Security Council: Progressing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(3).
Maddison, S., Shepherd, L. (2014). Peacebuilding and the postcolonial politics of transitional justice. Peacebuilding, 2(3), 253-269. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2014). The Road to (and from) 'Recovery': A Multidisciplinary Feminist Approach to Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding. In Gina Heathcote and Dianne Otto (Eds.), Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security, (pp. 99-117). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., True, J. (2014). The Women, Peace and Security agenda and Australian leadership in the world: from rhetoric to commitment? Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(3), 257-284. [More Information]

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2013

Grey, R., Shepherd, L. (2013). "Stop Rape Now?": Masculinity, Responsibility, and Conflict-related Sexual Violence. Men and Masculinities, 16(1), 115-135. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Feminist security studies. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods, (pp. 11-23). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Gender and global social justice: Peacebuilding and the politics of participation. In H. Widdows and N.J Smith (Eds.), Global Social Justice, (pp. 128-137). London, UK: Taylor and Francis. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). Introduction: Critical approaches to security in contemporary global politics. In Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Critical approaches to security: An introduction to theories and methods, (pp. 1-8). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis Inc. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2013). The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation. International Studies Perspectives, 14(4), 436-439. [More Information]

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2012

Rowley, C., Shepherd, L. (2012). Contemporary politics: Using the 'F' word and teaching gender in international relations. Teaching Politics and International Relations, (pp. 146-161). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK. [More Information]
Ahall, L., Shepherd, L. (2012). Gender, Agency and Political Violence. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Shepherd, L. (2012). Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis. [More Information]
Shepherd, L., Sjoberg, L. (2012). Trans- bodies in/of war(s): Cisprivilege and contemporary security strategy. Feminist Review, 101(1), 5-23. [More Information]

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2008

Shepherd, L. (2008). Gender, Violence and Security. London: Zed Books Ltd.

Selected Grants

2021

Laura Shepherd - SRRRP, Shepherd L, DVC Research/Strategic Research Recruitment and Retention Program (SRRRP)

2019

UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub, Chinkin C, Shepherd L, UK Research and Innovation/The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

2018

Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism Through Women Peace and Security, Shepherd L, Shepherd L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)

2015

Women, Peace and Security: Rethinking Policy, Advocacy and Implementation, Shepherd L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2012

Gender, peacebuilding and the politics of space: a critical examination of United Nations peacebuilding practices, Shepherd L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

In the media

‘Chartering the Politics and Challenges of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: An Interview with Soumita Basu and Laura J. Shepherd by Bilge Şahin’, interview for Women in Foreign Policy, 2 August 2023.

‘Interview – Laura J. Shepherd’, interview for e-IR blog, 28 July 2023.

‘Scarcity of funding threatens women’s peace work’, co-authored opinion piece for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s online publication The Strategist, 8 March 2022.

‘Advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Australia’, co-authored opinion piece for the Lowy Institute’s online publication The Interpreter, 8 March 2021.

‘Power and danger in the third decade of Women, Peace and Security’, co-authored blogpost for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 23 October 2020.

‘The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: An interview with Laura J. Shepherd’, interview with Maxime Seguin for The Transatlantic Puzzle, 3 October 2020.

‘Worlds in Collision: Essay on Teaching IR amid COVID-19’, co-authored with Nicole Wegner for H-Diplo Roundtable XXI-57, 7 August 2020.

‘Funding needed for the next 20 years of the women, peace and security agenda’, opinion piece for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s online publication The Strategist, 7 July 2020.

‘Feeling (in and out of time)’, blogpost for The Disorder of Things, 4 April 2020.

‘What we learnt from analysing twenty years of Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans’, co-authored blogpost for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 25 April 2019.

‘In pursuing a new resolution on sexual violence, the Security Council significantly undermines women’s reproductive rights’, co-authored blogpost for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 25 April 2019.

‘No Longer a Man’s Game? The Rise of Women in Parliament’, expert contribution for The Wire, 16 March 2018.

‘Civil society participation in WPS governance in Australia’, opinion piece for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s online publication The Strategist, 16 March 2018.

‘Gender parity at the UN: Promises to keep’, opinion piece for the Lowy Institute’s online publication The Interpreter, 8 March 2018.

‘How (Not) to Make WPS Count’, co-authored blogpost for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 24 January 2018.

‘In defence of the apparently indefensible…’, blog post for The Disorder of Things, 7 April 2017.

‘The role of the WPS agenda in countering violent extremism’, opinion piece for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s online publication The Strategist, 8 March 2017. Republished in a Strategic Insights paper titled ‘Women, Peace and Security: The Way Forward’.

‘Reviving the global gagrule is a “Women, Peace and Security” issue’, blog post for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 1 March 2017.

‘Promises to Keep: Reflections from the 2016 UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security’, blog post for the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, 8 November 2016.

'A measured response to criticisms of the LSE's new appointments', blogpost for The Disorder of Things, 27 May 2016 (viewed ~3730 times in 24 hours and remaining most-viewed post in the history of the site).

‘International Affairs 92(2): Women, Peace and Security’, podcast for Chatham House Institute of International Affairs, 11 March 2016.

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