Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg; MSc (Dipl.-Pol.) Hamburg University

Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is the current Director of Research at the Department of International Politics. She is a Reader in Peacebuilding, Post-war Reconstruction and Transitional Justice, and the Director of the Department's Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge.

Before joining Aberystwyth University in 2012, she held positions as Temporary Professor at Bremen University's Institute for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and as Researcher and Lecturer at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. She also worked as a Researcher in the project 'Who Governs? The Sociology of UN Administrations' at the University of Nottingham.

Berit co-edits the Nomos book series Zentrum & Peripherie. She is editorial board member of International Peacekeeping, Journal of Intervention & Statebuilding, Civil Wars, and Routledge Studies in Intervention & Statebuilding. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (since 2013), member of the AHRC Peer-Review College (since 2017) and alumni of the Welsh Crucible (2015).

She has been an invited Visiting Fellow at: Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University (2017); the Research Group 'Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy' (WIPCAD), Potsdam University (2015); the Uppsala Forum for Peace, Democracy and Justice, Uppsala University (2015); Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst and the Bremen International Graduate School for the Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen & Jacobs University Bremen (2014-15); Centre for International Relations (QCIR), Queen's University, Kingston/Ontario (2010).

POLITICAL ART EXHIBITIONS

In 2017, Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara commissioned the exhibition "Stitched Voices" at Aberystwyth Arts Centre and, together with a team of InterPol PhD students, organised an extensive events and engagement programme in connection with the exhibition. The team included Christine Andrä, Lydia Cole and Danielle House. The team's experiences in organising a conflict textiles exhibition can be read here: https://stitchedvoices.wordpress.com/

In 2012, Berit co-organised the exhibition and workshop "The Art of Survival: How societies deal with political violence" at Hamburg University, Germany.

AWARDS

2017 Welsh Crucible/Learned Society of Wales Prize for the Best Collaborative Project 2011-2015

2009 German Studies Award, a national award for the most relevant PhD thesis of the year, Körber Foundation

2003 Women's Masters Dissertation Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hamburg University

Module Coordinator

• IQ20220 - Intervention and Statebuilding
• IQ30220 - Intervention and Statebuilding

Lecturer

• IP12620 - Behind the Headlines
• IQ30220 - Intervention and Statebuilding
• IQ31220 - Charisma and Politics
• IQ20220 - Intervention and Statebuilding
• GW12620 - Y Tu ôl i'r Penawdau

Tutor

• IPM3720 - The International Politics of Conflict Knowledge
• IQ34420 - Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

Current PhD supervisions

• Desiree Poets
• Adhemar Mercado Auf der Maur
• Alistair Markland (ESRC project)
• Christine Andrä
• Jana Wattenberg

Completed PhD supervisions

• Dr Thomas Marshall: “Autonomous Marxism, the Commons and Critique in Post-2008 Social Movements” (2016)
• Dr Tomas Kucera: “The Soldier and Society: Liberalism and Societal-Military Relations in Germany and the UK” (2014)

Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is Director of the KNOWLEDGE Centre, a new research hub in the Department developing research which revolves around the dynamics and challenges of knowledge in and about international politics.

Berit's current research is centered on issues of knowledge production in/about international conflict and intervention.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

2016-17 (AHRC-PaCCS): Raising Silent Voices: Harnessing local knowledge for communities’ protection from violence in Myanmar

2016-18 (ESRC seminar series): From Data to Knowledge: Understanding peace and conflict from afar

2016-17 (Welsh Crucible): Borrowed Truths: Exploring transfers of expertise & evidence across science, justice & politics

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

2016 (Welsh Crucible): Travel Broadens the Mind: How field trip experiences impact political perceptions

2016 (Welsh Crucible): Using comics workshops to investigate & disseminate the infertility experiences of BME women in Wales .2015-16: Myth and Narrative in International Politics (book project)

2012-14 (German Research Foundation - DFG): Knowledge Production in Conflict: the International Crisis Group

2010 Political charisma (public lecture series & book project)

2009-10 (Körber Foundation): Illusion Statebuilding: Comparing statebuilding projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan

2003-08: Stateness in Times of Statebuilding (PhD project)