Dr Rachel Massey

Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
r.massey@chester.ac.uk
Dr Rachel Massey

My research and teaching interests lie in the areas of feminism, masculinity, embodiment, militarism and warring. I am particularly interested in the politics of framing sexual violence and its subjects in complex landscapes of war such as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I am Module leader for the following:

  • Level Four: SO4704 Thinking about Politics and International Relations
  • Lever Five: SO6051 Diplomacy and Peacebuilding
  • Level Six: SO6051 International Political Economy

I was awarded a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester in 2016. My PhD critically reflected on how academic research and policy analyses of sexual violence in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo function to solidify particular ways of understanding and embodying masculinity.

Since completing my PhD I have continued to develop my research in new directions by looking at how security sector reform efforts intended to combat sexual violence in complex landscapes of war intersect with familiar colonial and racialized images of masculinity and strengthen the power and influence of militarism globally.

  • PhD Politics, Department of Politics, the University of Manchester (ESRC Funded)
  • MA International Relations and Politics, Department of Politics, the University of Manchester
  • BA (Hons) International Relations and Politics, Department of Politics, the University of Manchester