Biography

Helen is an International Relations specialist with a particular interest in children and childhood and their relationship to international politics. Her other interests include gender, security, national identity, citizenship, education and art as a political tool. She has worked on an ESRC project on policy making and transition from political violence, based at INCORE, University of Ulster, involving comparative research on South Africa and was recently a research coordinator on an ESRC project about British national identity. She has taught in the department of Politics and International Relations since 2002.

Current Research

Helen is currently working on::

• ‘The Anarchical Child: Education and the War on Terror’,
• ‘Missing/(In)action? Children, politics and ‘war-fighting’
• 'The Inter-national Curriculum? Citizenship, security and nationhood.
• 'Coming of Age: The Politics of Childhood and War'.
• ‘The Anarchical Woman: rethinking gender in an age of political innocence’.

Selected Recent Publications

• Brocklehurst, H (2006) Who’s afraid of children? Children, Conflict and International Relations, (Ashgate). ISBN: 0754641716. 
• Brocklehurst, H. (2009) ‘Childhood in conflict: can the real child soldier please stand up?’ in  Ethics, Law and Society (Ashgate). 
• Brocklehurst, H. (2007) ‘Children and War’ in Alan Collins, (ed), Contemporary Security Studies, (Oxford University Press, 2007)