Maryam Khalid is a member of the Faculty of Arts executive leadership team, as the Associate Dean Curriculum and Learning. She was previously Director of the Bachelor of International Studies.

Maryam represents the Faculty’s education and curriculum portfolio at the University, and externally. Her approach to the portfolio is integrative (engaging with Research, HDR, internationalisation) and outward looking (building strategic projects at the interface between industry and academia). This is driven by:

• a belief in education as the site for building agency in our students and amongst ourselves as educators;
• a commitment to establishing connections between our communities within and beyond the University; and
• extensive experience in bringing academic expertise and discovery into conversation with insights from beyond academia.

Maryam works with international governance organisations (e.g. UNEP, GEF) and multinational corporations, in advisory and consulting roles. She welcomes opportunities to collaborate outside the University. If you are interested in exploring how we can work with your organisation, please do get in touch.

Maryam's research sits at the intersection of global governance, security, disruptive technology, human rights, global politics and international relations. She has published on gender, race, militarism, violence, and popular culture in a range of contexts, and has a particular interest in understanding the function and impact of identity construction in political and legal settings, as well as broader public discourse.

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=reVN7BMAAAAJ&hl=en

Maryam's current research focuses on the following areas:

• global governance, in particular institutional committments to gender mainstreaming in the governance of climate change and the energy sector
• disruptive technology and its social, political, security, and economic impacts
• international norms and legal regimes
• gender, sexuality, and race as processes, practices, and analytical lenses

Current projects:

Implementing sustainable developement and climate crisis 

Over the past 35 years, considerations of uneven impacts of climate crisis and migitation, and clean energy transitions, have become increasingly included in global environmental agreements and global environmental governance frameworks. This project builds on work done for the United Nations Environment Program, to expand existing frameworks to more fully incorporate the downstream effects of climate change mitigation and energy transition activites. Moving beyond gender mainstreaming to engage with a broader range of factors that are relevant to developed and developing economies, this work supports global governance institutions and coporations in their obligations and aspirations in environmental and related social impact.

Global governance and the liberal international system

This project uncovers the development of global governance norms and discourses, both in relation to the historical (the League of Nations) and the contemporary (the UN system) iterations of the liberal international system. This research explores how discourses of (mainstream) international governance come to be, and how they shape and are shaped by state governance and political discourses. This analysis gives insight into how international governance is anchored to contemporary and historical social and political systems of power, and therefore how states and other actors behave and are enabled and constrained in their actions.

International crises and non-Western financial systems as 'alternative' models of risk

The project analyses crises in the international system, with a focus on 'Islamic finance' and 'Sharia-compliant' banking after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The project looks at how and why 'Islamic' approaches to banking and finance are considered to embody an alternative model of ‘risk’, ‘partnership’ and ‘ethical’ practice. According to some, this approach constitutes a solution to the poor regulatory capacity and lack of transparency of neoliberalism that led to the GFC. The project has a particular focus on recent discussions of post-crisis Shariah-compliant banking and finance which have increasingly highlighted the potential impact of women’s economic voice in this context.

Maryam welcomes PhD and MRes projects aligning with the research areas and interests listed above.

Teaching and curriculum development experience includes:

• INTS1000 Language and Communication: Cultural Contexts
• INTS2020 Citizenship, Borders and Transnationalism
• INTS3040 Global Issues
• INTS3050 International Studies Internship
• INTS2060 Screening Europe: Cinema and Identity
• INTS7000 Critique in Language, Literature and Culture Studies

• POIR1080 Introduction to Global Politics
• POIR2030 Theories of World Politics
• POIR2580 Political Violence
• POIR2770 Revolutions
• POIR2780 Middle-East Politics
• POIR3220 International Relations of the Middle East
• POIR8430 The Middle East in Global Politics
• POIR8030 The Global Politics of Human Rights

• LAWS1010 Introduction to Law and Social Justice
• LAWS2060 The Politics of Human Rights Law
• LAWS3300 Administrative Law
• LAWS5019 International Human Rights Law
• LEX 102 Sustainability, Science and the Law

• ANTH1006 Drugs Across Cultures
• ANTH1051 Human Evolution and Diversity
• ANTH2007 Psychological Anthropology

• Developing and implementing fully-online programs in Law and in Politics/International Relations