Research Themes

These pages bring together information, research findings, and links to publications for the main research themes on military and related topics being pursued by a group of researchers at Newcastle University, who are based primarily in the social sciences. Currently, these research themes are:

• Contemporary British military memoirs
• Soldiers, identities and representation
• Gender and the armed forces
• Military geographies
• Military landscapes
• Military airspace and aviation
• The critical geopolitics of RAF recruitment
• The University armed service units
• DNA identification of First World War remains at Fromelles
• The merging of security and defence in the EU
• The popular geopolitics of military video games
• Geography and archaeology of conflict landscapes
• The military as new actors in international development
• Caring for post-military futures