Dr Jon Gorry

Jonathan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Award Leader for the successful MA in International Relations.

He earned his BA (Hons.) from Staffordshire University and his MA and PhD in International Relations from Warwick University.

Previous to his employment at Northampton, he taught Politics and International Relations at Staffordshire and Warwick Universities.

Jonathan has over ten years experience teaching a wide variety of subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the fields of Politics, Sociology, International Development and International Relations.

He has successfully supervised over 30 graduate students in a variety of areas ranging from the ethics of political violence to political theory, from democracy and democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa to political religion.

Main research interests

• Political Violence
• Political Religion
• Teaching and Learning

Other publications

Books

• 'Rethinking Just War in Theory and Practice' (Aldershot: Ashgate, under review)
• 'Thinking Global Development: An Introduction to International Development' with Nick Sage and Graham Wilkinson (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Chapters

• 'Making Sense of Citizenship', in A. Blair & S. Curtis (eds.) The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: Placement Learning, Citizenship, and Employability, (Birmingham: C-SAP, 2010)
• 'Terrorism', in D. MacIver (ed.) Political Issues in the World Today, (London: Routledge, 2005)
• 'Investigating Methodologies: A Comparison of the MA and PhD Research Processes.' in P. Burnham (ed.) Surviving the Research Process in Politics, (London: Cassells, 1997)

Articles/Papers

• 'Thinking the Unthinkable: Consociationalism as a Solution to the Israel-Palestine Crisis', Politics, (under review)
• 'How Socratic is our Method? Teaching and Learning Politics in the Post-Browne Environment', British Politics, (under review)
• 'Cultures of Learning and Learning Culture: Socratic and Confucian Approaches to Teaching and Learning', Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, (under review)
• 'Ploughshares into Swords? St. Augustine's Ethics of Political Violence', Religion Compass, (2011)
• 'Swords into Ploughshares? The Ante-Nicene Church and the Ethics of Political Violence', Religion Compass, (2011)
• 'Security Simulations.' The Voice: School of Social Sciences, University of Northampton, 2007
• 'Liberation Theology', in B. Jones (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy, (London: Routledge, 2002)
• 'Rosa Luxemburg', in B. Jones (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy, (London: Routledge, 2002)
• 'International Studies: A Globally Relevant Educational Experience.' Trans World Education Magazine, 10 (1), 2002
• 'Semi-Detached Idealists by Martin Ceadel: A Review' Political Studies 50 (5), 2002
• 'Learning Lessons from Terror?' Northampton Chronicle and Echo, October 18th 2001
• 'Just War' or Just War? The Future(s) of a Tradition.' Politics 20 (3), 2000
• 'The Impact of the British Churches on Peace Politics 1945-58.' Staffordshire Paper in Politics and International Relations No. 122, Staffordshire University, 1995
• 'Shining Path or Prince of Darkness? Political Terror in Peru.' Politics 13 (1), 1993