Biography

André Barrinha is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bath, having previously worked at the University of Kent, University of Coimbra and Canterbury Christ Church University. His main research interests are within the fields of Critical Security Studies, European Security and International Relations Theory. He is currently working on the role of new technologies in the constitution of security policies (mostly) in Europe, with a special focus on cybersecurity. He was awarded, in 2019, a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship to study the emergence of cyber-diplomacy as an international practice. He is one of the coordinators of the UACES CRN INTERSECT: Technology-Security-Society interplays in Europe and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Between 2016 and 2018 he was one of the founders and co-conveners of the British International Studies Association European Security Working Group.