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Professor of Politics and International Studies

PhD in International Politics (Aberystwyth, 2012); MscEcon Political Theory (Cardiff, 2008); BA Politics and Philosophy (Cardiff, 2005)

Email: c.heath-kelly@warwick.ac.uk
Room: D1.19

Advice and feedback hours: by appointment only (email me).

Profile

I am currently running a pilot study into the work of 'Data Guardians' across UK policing, healthcare, and social care organisations. These professionals play a unique and under-explored role in information governance across the UK, and I am exploring whether comparable professional fields exist in Europe.

Previously, I led a large ERC funded study of counter-radicalisation practices in Europe which explored how states (and municipalities) implement counter-terrorism through their social welfare and health sectors. For more information, please see this , or our project website. On the UK intersection between health and counterterrorism, recent media coverage of my research can be found . I have collaborated with MedAct on a report into psychiatric involvement in UK counter-terrorism policing, focusing on the racialised and ableist metrics of suspicion implemented in the . When the 'hubs' project was later nationalised, I conducted a follow-up study on the Counter Terrorism Clinical Consultancy Service, which can be found . I actively work with civil society organisations on the issues raised by profiling based on personal data, especially medical information. Across the broader NHS, I've studied the introduction of Prevent Duty safeguarding - and my research was covered by the Guardian covered and . The Institute of Race Relations have also covered my findings .

Historically, my research focused on Terrorism Memorials and Collective Memory. The British International Studies Association filmed a roundtable discussion of the 'Curating Conflict' project , and interviewed me about Spanish terrorism victims associations and commemoration here.

Recent Publications

Books

• (2025)  (Oxford University Press). Co-authored with Sadi Shanaah.
• (2023)  (eds. Charlotte Heath-Kelly & Barbara Gruber) (Manchester University Press).
• (2016) (Manchester University Press). Reviewed in Critical Studies on Security; response to reviewer comments available .
• (2013) (Abingdon: Routledge). Shortlisted for 2014 Susan Strange Book Prize, reviewed in Critical Studies on Terrorism journal . The Ted talk I gave on this project can be viewed.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• (2026) , Global Studies Quarterly, 6(2).
• (2026) , Security Dialogue 57(1), pp.35-47. Related media coverage on the withdrawal of an NHS Trust from the CT CCS program is .
• (2025) ‘', European Journal of International Security, 10(1), pp.9-26.
• (2024) '', Security Dialogue, 55(4), 2024, pp.386-403

• (2024) ‘’, Parliamentary Affairs, 77(2), pp.350-70.

• (2023) , Theoretical Criminology 27(2), pp.183–203. Co-authored with Sadi Shanaah.
• (2022) , Terrorism and Political Violence. Co-authored with Sadi Shanaah.
• (2022) , Theoretical Criminology, 26(3), pp.357-76. Co-authored with Sadi Shanaah.
• (2022) '', International Political Sociology, 16(1), pp.1-18.
• (2022) '', European Security, 31(2), pp.313-33. Co-authored by Francesca Melhuish & Charlotte Heath-Kelly.
• (2022) '’, Critical Social Policy 42(1), pp.85-106. Co-authored by Christine Winter; Charlotte Heath-Kelly; Amna Kaleem & China Mills.

For a list of publications, please click here.