Dr. Hannah Wright

Biography

Hannah Wright joined the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Global Politics in 2024. She is currently writing a book based on her ESRC-funded doctoral research, which is an ethnographically-informed study of the gendered, racialised, and classed cultures within UK national security policymaking that sustain militaristic and colonial ways of thinking. Wright is a member and co-organiser of Abolitionist International, a collective writing project exploring transnational perspectives on carceral abolition. Previously, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and worked as a Research Officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In her previous roles, she has worked in research and policy advocacy related to gender and conflict issues in international peacebuilding, served as an adviser to the NGO Saferworld, and participated in community-level political organizing focused on social justice issues.

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