About me

Dr Rosa Maryon

Qualifications

Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (awarded with distinction)
Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Skills

Bilingual French / English
Beginners Level 1 and 2 Arabic (Dec. 2015)

Education

PhD

Securing the state in post-transition Tunisia: reconfiguring regime legitimacy in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism

Under the direction of Dr Elisa Wynne Hughes, Dr Simone Tholens and Dr Victoria Basham

Dr Ian Bruff (External Examiner) & Dr Amal Saad (Internal Examner)

Cardiff University, Wales, 2023

Funded by the ESRC

Masters

Politics and Development in Africa and the Global South

Mention Bien MSc (International Relations Pathway)

Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, 2018

Social Sciences Research Methods

First class MSc (International Relations Pathway)

Cardiff University, Wales, 2018

Undergraduate degree

BSc Econ Politics

First class degree

Cardiff University, Wales

Bsc Diplome de Politique

Mention Bien

Sciences Po Bordeaux, France

Bio

I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UWE. My area of academic interest is the Politics and International Relations of Maghreb. I specialise in security, the MENA and post-colonialism. I am particularly interested in breaking down the disciplinary boundaries between security studies and International Political Economy in understanding international relations phenomena. I have presented my work at a variety of different academic conferences including the Society for Terrorism Research, BISA, Millennium, SASE and EISA. I have published my work in textbooks and academic journals. I am open to collaborative research projects.

Education

I have a PhD in International Relations from Cardiff University. My research was fully funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and its Doctoral Training Partnership program and explored the role of security policy in reconfiguring regime legitimacy in Tunisia in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism.

I have an MSc from Sciences Po Bordeaux in Politics and Development in Africa and the Global South (Politique et développement en Afrique et les pays du sud). During this masters, I was part of a term of researchers conducting a risk assessment of an urban transportation development project World Bank. My second MSc is from Cardiff University, in the ESRC sponsored Social Science Research Methods program specialising in International Relations.

I have two undergraduate degrees – a Politics and International Relations degree from Cardiff University and a Politics and Economics degree from Sciences Po Bordeaux. I achieved First Class Honours in both these degrees. In 2014 I won the Cardiff University Undergraduate Student of the Year Scholarship.

Employment

I have taught several different undergraduate Politics and IR modules at both Cardiff University and the University of the West of England. These include modules about International Relations theory, Globalisation, International Development, Colonialism, Crisis and Change, Terrorism, Security and Migration, Gender and Global Politics and Research Methods. I am particularly interested in innovative teaching methods and have guest lectured on courses designed for Post Graduate Teachers.

In 2021, I was nominated for the Oustanding Teaching Award at the University of the West of England. I was nominated again for the Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2022. I am an associate fellow of Higher Education Academy for which I won a prize from the exam board. I am also a fellow of the HEA.

I am open to collaborative projects working on critical approaches to security, neoliberalism, migration, post colonialism, critical global political economy and racial capitalism particularly those with an empirical focus on the Middle East and North Africa.