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Dr Kandida Purnell

Associate Professor of International Relations

Contact:
Email: [email protected]
School: Department of Social Sciences & Humanities
Research centres: International Visual Arts and Cultures (IVAC) / The State, Power and Globalisation (SPG)

About

Dr Kandida Purnell is Head of Research and Professional Engagement (RPE) and Associate Professor of International Relations at Richmond, American University London. Kandida is the author of Rethinking the Body in Global Politics (Routledge, 2021) and editor of When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic (Policy Press, 2023) with Dr Amy Cortvriend (Loughborough University), Professor Lucy Easthope (University of Durham/University of Bath), and Professor Jenny Edkins (University of Manchester). Kandida Purnell is a recipient of the Richmond, American University London Research Development Award Scheme (2025-2026) and is currently working with Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge) on the Land and Flesh: Embodying Global Politics and (In)Security research project.

  • PhD International Relations (2016) University of Aberdeen,
  • MA International Relations (2009) King’s College London
  • BA Politics with International Studies (2008) University of Surrey
  • Fellowship (2022) UK Higher Education Academy
  • Associate Fellowship (2014) UK Higher Education Academy

Some of the courses I teach:

  • IR7100: Research Methods
  • IR7450: Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies
  • INR4100: Introduction to International Relations
  • PLT3103: Comparative Political Systems
  • DEV5200: Research Methods and Practices
  • CRM5400: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
  • IR6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (International Relations)
  • PL6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (Political Science)
  • INR7303: Securities and Insecurities: Bodies, Identity, Images
  • INR6400: Peace and Conflict Studies

Publications:

Books

  • With Edkins, Jenny, Easthope, Lucy, and Cortvriend, Amy. 2023. ‘When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’. Bristol University Press, Policy Press.
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and The Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic’. London and New York: Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • With Cortvriend, Amy, Easthope, Lucy, and Edkins, Jenny. 2025. Memory After Disaster: Trauma Time, Embodiment and Recovery in the Covid-19 Pandemic’, Millennium – Journal of International Studies. Vol 53(3): 575-602: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/03058298251364406
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2024. ‘Politicising Space, (In)visibilising Grief: Pandemic Commemoration and the UK’s National COVID Memorial Wall’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Vol. 43(2): 307-325, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241269226
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts: Widening, Deepening, and Embodying Ontological (In)Security in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021, ksab037, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab037
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Out of Touch, Out of Tune: The Social-Political Construction of Atmospheric Walls during the COVID-19 Pandemic’s First Wave’, Emotions and Society, Vol. 3(2): 277-293, DOI: 10.1332/263169021X16171227433111
  • With Danilova, Natasha. 2020, ‘The ‘museumification’ of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain’s wars’, Critical Military Studies, Vol. 6(3-4): 287-305.
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2018, ‘Grieving, Valuing and Viewing Differently: The Global War on Terror’s American Toll’, International Political Sociology, Vol. 12(2): 156-171.
  • With Danilova, Natasha. 2018, ‘Dancing at the Frontline: Rosie Kay’s 5SOLDIERS De-Realises and Re-Secures the Global War on Terror’, Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 6(3): 370-375.
  • Purnell, Kandida. 2015, ‘Body Politics and Boundary Work Nobodies on Hunger Strike at Guantánamo (2013–2015)’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol.39 (4): 271-286.

Publications Pipeline:

Accepted for Publication

  • ‘Counting, Discounting, and the Necropolitics of Protection’, Humanity, Forum on ‘Weaponizing Civilian Protection’ by Thomas Gregory.

Journal Articles:

  • With Wilcox, Lauren. ‘Beyond the Body: Enfleshing Security’, Security Dialogue, Editors introduction to Special Issue on Land and Flesh: Corporeal Formations of Global Politics and (In)Security
  • Purnell, Kandida. ‘Activity Portfolios as an Assessment Method in International Relations’, Journal of Political Science Education.

Journal Special Issues:

  • Edited with Wilcox, Lauren. ‘Land and Flesh: Corporeal Formations in Global Politics and (In)Security’, Security Dialogue.

09/2025-

Head of (Associate Dean) Research and Professional Engagement, Richmond, American University London

Main Duties:

  • Provide leadership of the University’s Research and Professional Engagement Plan and the Public Benefit Strategy;
  • Support Heads of Department/School in promoting faculty research and professional engagement;
  • Chair the University Research Policy Committee and ensure that the administrative tasks associated with the committee are completed;
  • Serve as a member of Academic Board and other committees as decided by the Provost (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic), and participate fully in the management of research and professional engagement;
  • Work with those responsible for general education academic programmes, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to ensure proper reporting and compliance with the requirements of external bodies such as the OfS, QAA and MSCHE;
  • Work with faculty and the Centre for Learning and Teaching to develop positive synergies between teaching, research and professional engagement;
  • Assist the Provost (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic), Heads of Department/School, faculty and other University departments in ensuring the dissemination of academic research;
  • Work with faculty to improve existing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in line with the University’s mission and strategic objectives;
  • Work with the Provost (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic) to develop and manage the University research budget, and hold overall accountability for the budget;
  • Work with the Provost (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic) to explore the feasibility and desirability of Richmond submitting an entry to future research funding exercises;
  • Oversee the work of the Research Ethics Sub-Committee;
  • Liaise with other University departments including the Library, Academic Registry, Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions for the promotion and development of research and professional engagement;
  • Teach 5 courses over an Academic Year (normally split between the fall and spring semesters), develop appropriate curricula, maintain class attendance and carry out continuous assessment of students;

01/2023-

Associate Professor of International Relations, Richmond, American University London

Teaching and curriculum development:

  • Teaching 7 courses per year and summer school including UG and PG courses in the Liberal Arts American system of higher education;

Course-Coordination:

    • INR4100: Introduction to International Relations
    • INR5101: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
    • DEV5200: Research Methods and Practices
    • IR7100: Research Methodology
    • IR7450: Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies
    • CRM5400: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    • INR6400: Peace and Conflict Studies
    • INR6101: Rethinking International Relations
  • Preparing programmes, syllabi, reading lists, grading assessment standards and classroom instruction;
  • Marking mid-term and final examination papers and submit grades;
  • Undertaking preparation for, and participate in Board of Examiners’ meetings;

Student advising and mentoring:

  • Maintaining at least two regular office hours per week for out-of-class consultation with students;
  • Providing academic advice to a given group of students covering course selection and academic development;

Scholarship and/or professional development:

  • Undertaking research, consulting and scholarly/professional activities appropriate to the level of Associate Professor in an international university;
  • Developing and maintaining a record of research and scholarly achievement in line with UK REF;

Service Duties/Departmental Administration/Leadership:

  • Director of the Research Centre for the Study of the State, Power, and Globalisation (SPG) (2023-)
  • University and Departmental Committee Memberships: Academic Literacies Committee (2023-)
  • Co-ordinate and promote the UG and PG International Relations programs;
  • Involvement in recruitment and marketing of the International Relations programs.
  • Leadership of quality assurance, reporting, and enhancement of processes.

09/2019-12/2022

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Richmond, American University London

Teaching and curriculum development:

Teaching 8 courses per year and summer school including UG and PG courses in the Liberal Arts American system of higher education;

Course-Coordination:

    • IR7100: Research Methodology
    • IR7450: Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies
    • INR4100: Introduction to International Relations
    • INR5101: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
    • PLT3103: Comparative Political Systems
    • DEV5200: Research Methods and Practices
    • CRM5400: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    • IR6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (International Relations)
    • PL6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (Politics)
    • INR7900: MA Dissertation
    • INR7303: Securities and Insecurities: Bodies, Identity, Images
    • INR6400: Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Preparing syllabi, reading lists, grading assessment standards and classroom instruction;
  • Marking and moderation of mid-terms and final examinations;
  • Undertaking preparation for, and participate in Board of Examiners’ meetings;

Student advising and mentoring:

  • Maintaining at least two regular office hours per week for out-of-class consultation with students;
  • Providing academic advice to a given group of students covering course selection and academic development;

Scholarship and/or professional development

  • Undertaking research, consulting and scholarly/professional activities appropriate to the level of Assistant Professor in an international university;
  • Developing and maintaining a record of research and scholarly achievement in line with UK REF;

Service Duties/Departmental Administration:

  • Committee Memberships: Academic Progress Committee (2019-2021) and Research Policy Committee (2019-2020);
  • Teaching and Learning Committee (2020-2021).

08/2018 – 08/2019

Lecturer in International Relations (Security), City, University of London

Course Coordination and Development:

  • IP2025 Security Studies: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
  • IP2024 Security Studies: Conceptual Approaches
  • IPM101 Understanding Security in the Twenty-First Century
  • IPP2021: Scholarly Writing

Other Teaching:

  • UG and PG Dissertation Supervisor and Marker
  • Personal Tutor

Admin/Leadership:

  • Outreach and Widening Participation Lead
  • Departmental Micro-Placements Coordinator
  • Extenuating Circumstances Committee Member

01/2016 – 06/2018

Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen.

Course Coordination and Development:

  • PI5520: Terrorism and Counterterrorism (2017-2018)
  • PI3567: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and International Relations (2017-2018)

Blended Access Course Coordination and Development:

  • PI1035: Access to Social Sciences (2016-2017)
  • KL15PG: Access to Political Studies (2016-2017)

Other Teaching:

  • PI1518: Power and Conflict (Lecturer and Tutor, 2017-2018);
  • PI1018: Democracy and Governance (Tutor, 2017-2018);
  • PI2009: Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations (Tutor, 2017-2018)
  • PI3069: Researching into the 21st Century (Tutor, 2016-2018)
  • PI4071: Dissertation (Supervisor/Marker, 2017-2018)
  • IR4031: Dissertation (Supervisor/Marker, 2017-2018)
  • MSCIR: Dissertation (Marker, 2017)

09/2013 – 05/2017

Teaching Assistant, School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen.

Teaching:

  • PI1013: Introduction to International Relations: History and Concepts (Tutor, 2013, 2014)
  • PI1516: Introduction to Political Science: British Politics and the EU (Tutor, 2013)
  • SO1507: Introductory Sociology II (Tutor, 2017)
  • PI2007: Theories of International Relations (Lecturer and Tutor, 2014)
  • PI2005: Democracy: Issues and Controversies (Tutor, 2014, 2015)
  • PI2508: Global Politics: Equality and Inequality (Tutor, 2014-2015)
  • SO2009: Studying Social Life I (Tutor, 2016)
  • SO2504: Studying Social Life II (Tutor, 2017)

Awarded:

  • Research Development Scheme, Richmond, American University London, 1 x Course ‘buy-out’ SP26 to deliver the book ‘Land and Flesh: The Embodiment of Global Politics’ with co-editor Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge)
  • Research Policy Committee, Richmond, American University London, GBP1000 awarded to attend British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2024
  • ‘War Commemoration and Military Culture in Scotland’ GBP188 awarded by Research Incentive Grant, Military-Arts Collaboration in the US and Britain, funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Primary Investigator Dr Natasha Danilova/ Co-Investigator Dr Kandida Purnell
  • Research Policy Committee, Richmond, American University London, GBP500 awarded to attend British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2023
  • Research Policy Committee, Richmond, American University London, GBP800 awarded 2021 to attend International Studies Association Annual Conference 2022
  • Centre for Teaching and Learning, Richmond, American University London, GBP220 awarded Sept 2021 for HEA Fellowship Application Fee
  • State, Power, and Globalization Research Group, Richmond, American University London, GBP100 awarded June 2022 for Research event on Ontological Security with Professor Brent J. Steele, University of Utah in October 2022
  • With PI Natasha Danilova, ‘War Commemoration and Identity Politics in Scotland 2016-2018’, GBP7,226 awarded 2016 by Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
  • Public Engagement with Research: Enabling Fund, University of Aberdeen. Awarded to fund Nov 2017 Festival of Social Science roundtable event on ‘The Scottish Soldier’ as part of War Commemoration, Military Culture, and Identity Politics in Scotland. GBP500.
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant USD500 awarded to attend ISA Annual Conference 2014, Toronto, Canada.
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant USD500 awarded to attend ISA Annual Conference 2015, New Orleans, USA.
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant USD500 awarded to attend ISA Annual Conference 2017, Baltimore, USA.
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant USD500 awarded to attend ISA Annual Conference 2013, San Francisco, USA.
  • International Studies Association (ISA) Travel Grant USD500 awarded to attend ISA North East Annual Conference 2012, Baltimore, USA.
  • College of Arts and Social Sciences / Research Project Award Scheme, University of Aberdeen, Oct 2011, awarded full PhD Scholarship: GBP19,800 + GBP3,000/annum maintenance grant.

Submitted:

  • ‘Land and Flesh: Corporeal Formations in Global Politics and (In)Security’, Co-Is Kandida Purnell and Lauren Wilcox, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge (CRASSH) Events Funding Scheme, GBP1,000
  • ‘The Politics of Commemoration: After COVID-19’ PI Kandida Purnell with Co-Is Professor Jenny Edkins (University of Manchester), Dr Lucy Easthope (University of Durham/University of Bath/ Emergency Planning College), and Amy Cortvriend (University of Northampton/University of Manchester), ISRF Small Group Projects Award, GBP5,000

In Preparation:

  • ‘Land and Flesh: Corporeal Formations in Global Politics and (In)Security’, Co-Is Kandida Purnell and Lauren Wilcox, BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2026 Round, GBP10,000
  • ‘Poles Apart: Seeing, Feeling, and Embodying Politics and the Exacerbation of Local-Global Inequality’ PI Kandida Purnell, British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, GBP75,000
  • ‘Talking the Wall, Walking the Wall: Contest and Commemoration in a time of COVID-19’ PI Kandida Purnell, Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship (LSE), GBP5,000

01/2023-

Director, ‘The State, Power, and Globalisation Research Centre’, Richmond, American University London

Responsibilities:

  • Budgetary responsibility
  • Strategic direction
  • Programme and events coordination
  • Partnerships and outreach

SPG Events Programme:

  • ‘Into the Bondiverse: An analysis in [007] hashtags’, Book talk by Professor Martin D. Brown, Richmond, American University London, 12/02/2025.
  • ‘Imperial Island’, Book talk By Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley, University of Southampton, 02/04/2025.
  • ‘US Election 2024: Reflections on what is at stake’, A Roundtable event featuring Professor Ron Granieri, US Army War College, Dr Andrew Sanders, DeMontfort University, and Professor Mike Keating and Dr Noga Glucksam, Richmond, American University London, 06/11/2024.
  • ‘World as Abyss’, Book Discussion with Professor David Chandler, University of Westminster, 20/11/24.
  • ‘Terrorism, Paganism, and the Extreme Right’, Professor Dominic Alessio, Richmond, American University London, London, Feb 2023.
  • ‘The Politics of Terrorist Credit Taking’, Dr Tanja Hansen, University of Aarhus, March 2023.
  • ‘Incel: The New Terrorist Threat?’, Dr Catherine Gidney, Masaryk University, April 2023.
  • ‘Mobilizing Gender for Conflict Prevention: Women’s Situation Rooms’, Dr Paula Drumond, Graduate Institute – Geneva, March 2023.
  • ‘Remember, Remember: Bonfires, Conflict, and Memory in Northern Ireland’, Dr Amanda Hall, University of Reading, April 2023.
  • ‘Global Corpse Politics’, book talk by Professor Jessica Auchter, University Laval, Canada, 14/09/2023
  • ‘Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Collateral Damage and Counterinsurgency’, book talk by Dr Thomas Gregory, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26/10/2023
  • ‘Terror, the Occult, and the Rise of the Far Right in the UK’, roundtable event featuring Met Police (Andrew Pardy) and Academics (Professor Dom Alessio, Richmond, American University London, Dr William Alcorn, Richmond, American University London, and Professor Robert Walls, Open University), 07/12/2023
  • British International Studies Association, Member (2012-Present)
  • European International Studies Association, Member (2012-Present)
  • International Studies Association, Member (2012-Present)
  • British International Studies Association, Working Group on Critical Military Studies, Member (2023-)
  • Ontological Security Network, Member (2022-)

International Studies Association, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section, Communications Chair (2021-2022)

Role Description:

  • Developing and enacting external and internal communications strategy, Managing Comms Committee members;
  • Chairing communications committee, posting on social media, developing website, developing other modes of communicating with members.

Journals: European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, Review of International Studies, Mortality, Critical Military Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, The International Journal of Human Rights, Journal of International Relations and Development, Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Journal of International Political Theory, Medical Humanities, International Political Sociology, Journal of Global Security Studies, Global Studies Quarterly, Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Book Publishers: Oxford University Press, Politics & Economics, Palgrave Macmillan (International Relations and Security Studies), Edward Elgar, Routledge (Sociology and Politics and International Relations)

National and International Conference Participation

  • International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference: 2013-2025
  • ISA North East Annual Conference: 2012, 2014, 2016
  • British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
  • European International Studies Association (EISA) Pan European Conference: 2015, 2016
  • EISA Workshops in International Studies: 2014, 2017
  • Millennium Annual Conference: 2012, 2016, 2018
  • International Feminist Journal of Politics Annual Conference: 2021
  • ‘Before and Beyond the State (as Person): Enfleshing Global Politics’, Paper presentation, British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Brighton, UK, June 2026.
  • ‘Corporeal Connections: Land, Flesh, and the Embodiment of Global Politics’, Roundtable Chair and Participant, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, March 2025.
  • ‘Politicising Space, (In)visibilising Grief: Pandemic Commemoration and the UK’s ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, March 2025.
  • ‘Author Meets Critics, Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan, Dr Thomas Gregory’, Roundtable Chair and Participant, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, March 2025.
  • ‘Memory After Disaster: Trauma Time, Embodiment and Recovery’, Paper presentation, Millennium – Journal of International Studies Annual Conference, London UK, November 2024.
  • ‘The Everyday/Everyday Life and/of Teaching Practice in Politics and International Relations’, Roundtable organized by Professor Juanita Elias, British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, June 2024.
  • ‘A Wall of Pain and Love’: Atmospheric Walls and the UK’s ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’, Paper Presentation, British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, June 2024.
  • ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics Part I: Martial and “Other” Bodies’, Roundtable organised by Kandida Purnell, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 2024.
  • ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics Part II: Bodies of Knowledge’, Roundtable organised by Kandida Purnell, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 2024.
  • ‘Sensing World Politics: Multi-Sensory Perceptions Of And As Global Relations’, Roundtable organised by Renee Marlin-Bennett, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, April 2024.
  • ‘Bodies as Members and Bodies Dismembered: ‘sexual’ violence and the politics of (be)coming a(body)part’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association – North East, Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2023.
  • Pandemic Privilege and the Cost of Commemorating COVID-19: Exclusivity, Effacement, and the Reinforcement of Inequality Through the UK’s ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association – North East, Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2023.
  • ‘Narratives, Anxiety, and the Reinforcement of Inequality through the UK’s ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’, Paper Presentation, British International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, June 2023.
  • ‘COVID-19 and the Politics of Trauma’, Workshop organized by Dr Henrique Furtado (University of the West of England) and Jessica Auchter (University of Chattanooga, Tennessee), January 2021.
  • ‘Out of Touch, Out of Tune: The Social-Political Construction of Atmospheric Walls during the COVID-19 Pandemic’s First Wave’, Paper Presentation, International Feminist Journal of Politics Annual Conference. Online, Feb 2021.
  • ‘Curating Conflict: Political Violence in Museums, Memorials, and Exhibitions’, Webinar organised by BISA/Reeves, A and Heath-Kelly, C, British International Studies Association Online, October 2020.
  • ‘Critical Methods and Methodologies for International Relations’, Webinar organised by the BISA/Poststructuralist Politics Working Group featuring Shannon Brincat, David Driesmith, Kandida Purnell, Tim Aistrope, British International Studies Association Online, August 2020.
  • ‘Researching Army@Fringe through affective engagements: a case-study of In Valid Voices (Dir. Helen-Marie O’Malley)’, Panel on Critical Methods and Methodologies for IR organised by Driesmith, D, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK, June 2020.
  • ‘Army@Fringe Engagement and the Performance of War in Public: Army@Fringe and the Familiar/Familial Embodiment of the Military’, Paper Presentation, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, London, June 2019.
  • ‘Army@Fringe and the Performance of War in Public’, Paper Presentation, European International Studies Association Annual Conference, Prague, Sept 2018.
  • ‘Changing Taste, Changing Sight, Changing War: A Comparative Analysis of American and British Soldiers KIA since 9/11’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association-North East, Baltimore, Nov 2017.
  • ‘The Mobility and (In)visibility of Dead Soldiers: A Comparative Analysis of American and British Soldiers KIA since 9/11’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association-North East, Baltimore, Nov 2017.
  • ‘Global Security: Noticing, under-noticing, un-noticed’, Paper Presentation, British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, June 2016;
  • ‘American bodies, American boundaries: Visibility, invisibility and dead American soldier-bodies’, Paper Presentation, European International Studies Association Annual Conference, Giardini – Naxos, Sicily, Sept 2015;
  • ‘Dead soldier-bodies and/in international relations’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, US, Feb 2015;
  • ‘Dead Bodies and Boundary Work: An Investigation into the American Politics of Dead Soldier-Bodies’, Paper Presentation, Junior Scholar Symposium, International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2014;
  • ‘Inhumane tendencies and the politics of life and death itself: What can bodies do?’, Paper Presentation, European Workshops on International Studies, Gediz University, Izmir, Turkey, May 2014.
  • ‘Diffusing, confusing or transfusing gender? The paradoxical politics and practices of the international diffusion of (otherwise) of gender’, Roundtable, International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, US, April 2013.
  • ‘Violated boundaries and bodies that move: The hungry bodies of Bahía de Guantánamo’, Paper Presentation, On violence, Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia, Sept 2013;
  • ‘Body/Borders’, Paper Presentation, International Studies Association North East Conference, Baltimore, US, Nov 2012;
  • ‘Bare life and the possibility to resist’, Politics and Knowledge, Paper Presentation, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, UK, Jan 2010.
  • ‘When this is over, we must remember we knew the pandemic was coming’, 22/07/2024, Transforming Society, Blog. URL: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/07/22/when-this-is-over-we-must-remember-we-knew-the-pandemic-was-coming/
  • ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics’, 5th October 2023, New Books Network, URL: https://newbooksnetwork.org/rethinking
  • ‘On Boats and Bodies’ 23/06/2023, KandidaPurnell.me, URL: https://kandidapurnell.me/2023/06/23/on-boats-and-bodies-some-books-and-blogs-2/
  • ‘An apolitical tapestry can’t replace listening to those bereaved by COVID-19’, 1st June 2023, Transforming Society, Blog. URL: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/06/01/an-apolitical-tapestry-cant-replace-listening-to-those-bereaved-by-covid-19/
  • ‘When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’, 17th May 2023, Transforming Society, Podcast, URL: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/transforming-society-podcast/
  • ‘How many Covid deaths? Look in our fridges’, Book launch Magazine, April 2023. URL: https://issuu.com/booklaunch/docs/b116_s/23310906
  • ‘Did we really think we’d moved on from Covid?’, Transforming Society Blog, March 2023. URL: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/03/08/did-we-really-think-wed-moved-on-from-covid/
  • ‘The Queen’s Two Bodies: Why metaphors matter – especially in a time of monarchical mourning’, 21/09/2022, LSE British Politics Blog, URL: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-queens-two-bodies-why-metaphors-matter-especially-in-a-time-of-monarchical-mourning/
  • ‘The Queen’s two bodies and the political power of metaphor’, 21/09/2022, The Loop (ECPR), URL: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-queens-two-bodies-and-the-political-power-of-metaphor/
  • ‘The Queen’s Two Bodies: Why metaphors matter – especially in a time of monarchical mourning’, 13/09/2022, KandidaPurnell.me, URL: https://kandidapurnell.me/2022/09/13/the-queens-two-bodies-why-metaphors-matter-especially-in-a-time-of-monarchical-mourning/
  • Pandemic Privilege and the Cost of Commemorating COVID-19: Exclusivity, Effacement, and the Reinforcement of Inequality, Remembering Pandemics, Sept 2022
  • Dr Kandida Purnell: In Conversation, Defence Research Network, 03/06/2021, URL: https://defenceresnet.org/in-conversation-with-academics-7/
  • ‘Rethinking The Body in Global Politics: Why and How?’, E-IR, 04/05/2021. URL: https://www.e-ir.info/2021/05/04/rethinking-the-body-in-global-politics-why-and-how/
  • Purnell, Kandida. 10/09/2020. ‘Fit for purpose? Boris Johnson’s two bodies and the UK “Better Health” strategy’, Somatosphere, URL: https://somatosphere.net/2020/johnson-two-bodies-better-health.html/
  • ‘The Body Politics of COVID-19’, The Disorder of Things, 06/04/2020, URL: https://thedisorderofthings.com/2020/04/06/the-body-politics-of-covid-19/#more-17655
  • ‘To clap or not to clap…’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 06/01/2021, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=404
  • ‘Losing count, losing touch: on feeling the 2nd wave’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 11/11/2020, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=387
  • ‘On Dreams and/of Death’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 28/04/2020, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=168
  • ‘From PhD to Pandemic’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 29/04/2020, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=170
  • ‘Calm the f*** down’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 03/05/2020 URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=180
  • ‘Weekend Interrupted’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 26/05/2020, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=246
  • ‘On Numbers and Numbness’, COVID-19 Health Diaries, 19/07/2020, URL: https://covid19healthdiaries.com/diary?id=306
  • ‘Why Americans Never Forget to Remember 9/11’, Duck of Minerva, 13/09/2017, URL: http://duckofminerva.com/2017/09/why-americans-never-forget-to-remember-911.html
  • ‘The Politics of Grief and the Forever War: Who Speaks for the Fallen?’, Duck of Minerva, 22/10/2017, URL: http://duckofminerva.com/2017/10/the-politics-of-grief-and-the-forever-war-who-speaks-for-the-fallen.html
  • ‘Re-Branded and Expanded: Visual Politics and the Implications of Guantanamo’s Make-Over’, Duck of Minerva, 25/02/2018, URL: http://duckofminerva.com/2018/02/re-branded-and-expanded-visual-politics-and-the-implications-of-guantanamos-make-over.html
  • With Bird, Jenny and Lawton, Kayte. 2010, ‘Green and Decent Jobs: The case for local action’, Institute for Public Policy Research, URL: https://www.ippr.org/publications/green-and-decent-jobs-the-case-for-local-action
  • ‘London: City of the Dead’, Guest Lecture for Dr Catherine Dille’s ‘City of London’ course, Richmond, American University London, 04/04/2025.
  • ‘The Unequal Pandemic’, Film premiere hosted by Debbie Abrahams MP, Houses of Parliament, London UK, 13/09/2023.
  • ‘When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’, University West of Scotland (Canary Wharf Campus), Fall 2023.
  • Innovative Assessment through the use of Activity Portfolios, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Richmond, American University London, March 2023.
  • A Conversation with The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on ‘When This is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’, The Royal Society, Summer 2023.
  • ‘The Quality of Life, Death, and Commemoration in a time of Covid-19’, Connecting in a Time of COVID-19, Workshop organised by Dr Mark Honigsbaum, City University of London, 10/03/2022.
  • ‘The Visual and Emotional Politics of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Post-Pandemic Worlds Guest Lecture, Richmond, American University London, 01/10/2021.
  • ‘The Politics of Commemoration: After COVID-19: A Roundtable’ House of Lords, Spring 2023.
  • ‘In Conversation: Dead Body Politics (in a time of Pandemic) with Dr Kandida Purnell’, Centre For Death and Society, University of Bath. Date tbc.
  • ‘Gender and International Politics: Taster Talk’, Richmond, American University London, 8th May 2021 (Offer Holders Day).
  • ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics’: Book Launch, Centre for the State, Power, and Globalisation, Richmond, American University London, 14/04/2021.
  • ‘Out of Touch, Out of Tune: The Visual-Affective Politics of the COVID-19’, MA Visual Culture Coordinated by Dr Nicola Mann, Richmond, American University London, 17/03/2021. Invited Talk.
  • ‘Atmospheric Walls and the Commemoration of Grief: Seeing and Feeling COVID-19 during the UK’s ‘First Wave’, International Visual Arts Culture Events Series, Richmond, American University London, 26/11/2020. Invited Talk.
  • ‘Body Politics in a Time of Pandemic’, Thinking Aloud: The World After COVID: A Society, Politics, and Globalisation’ (SPG) Research Group event, Richmond, American University London, 13/10/2020. Panellist.
  • ‘Bodies, Body Politics, Bodies Politics’, Talk for University of Aberdeen’s Politics and International Relations Society (PIROSC), Sept 2018. Invited Speaker.
  • ‘Terrorism in the UK’, European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) UK, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Oct 2017. Invited Panellist.
  • ‘The Scottish Warrior’, Festival of Social Science, Gordon Highlanders’ Museum, Nov 2017. Chair.
  • 09/10-09/13 Advocacy and Strategy Coordinator (09/2011 – 09/2013) / Executive Assistant (09/2010 – 09/2011), Publish What You Fund, INGO/Global Campaign (aid transparency) Southbank House, Black Prince Road, London, SE1 7SJ
  • 04/2010 – 07/2010 Research Assistant: Citizens, Society, Economy, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR): Research Institute / Public Policy ‘Think Tank’ 4th Floor, 14 Buckingham Street, London WC2N 6DF
  • 09/2009 – 04/2010 Parliamentary Assistant/Researcher, Jean Lambert MEP, Green/European Free Alliance (EFA)/UK Green Party European Parliament, 8G107, Rue Wiertz 60, Brussels, 1040, Belgium
  • 03/2009 – 07/2009 Internship (Political Outreach / International Education Program), OneVoice Europe, NGO (Israel / Palestine conflict resolution) 3-5 Richmond Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, TW9 3WA