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Nick Vaughan-Williams

Nick Vaughan-Williams

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Political Science

D-Index
30
Citations
5430
World Ranking
1152
National Ranking
191

Overview

Nick Vaughan-Williams is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, focusing extensively on subfields such as sociology and political science, gender studies, health, and clinical psychology.

Their scholarly contributions explore a variety of topics including migration, refugees, and integration; global security and public health; gender, security, and conflict; gender politics and representation; intimate partner and family violence; and migration, health, and trauma.

Recent publications by Nick Vaughan-Williams include:

  • "Ignorance, (in)security and Europe's 'migration crisis': Vernacular (non)knowledge among citizens" (2025) published in Security Dialogue
  • "From Security-Space to Time-Race: Reimagining Borders and Migration in Global Politics" (2024) published in International Political Sociology
  • "Male warriors and worried women? Understanding gender and perceptions of security threats" (2020) published in the European Journal of International Security
  • "Index" (2021) published by Manchester University Press eBooks

Their book publication includes Reclaiming Migration (2021), released through Winchester University Press.

Nick Vaughan-Williams has collaborated with several frequent coauthors including:

  • Vicki Squire
  • Nina Perkowski
  • Dallal Stevens
  • Daniel Stevens
  • Sarah Bulmer

Their work appears across multiple respected publication venues, among them:

  • European Journal of International Security
  • International Political Sociology
  • Security Dialogue
  • Manchester University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • Critical Security Studies: An Introduction

    Columba Peoples;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies

    Noel Parker;Nick Vaughan-Williams ∗

  • Europe's Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand' Agenda

    Noel Parker;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Borderwork beyond Inside/Outside? Frontex, the Citizen–Detective and the War on Terror

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • The UK Border Security Continuum: Virtual Biopolitics and the Simulation of the Sovereign Ban

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Introduction: An Agenda for Resilience Research in Politics and International Relations

    James Brassett;Stuart Croft;Nick Vaughan‐Williams

  • The generalised bio-political border? Re-conceptualising the limits of sovereign power

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • “We are not animals!” Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Vernacular theories of everyday (in)security : the disruptive potential of non-elite knowledge

    Nick Vaughan-Williams;Daniel Stevens

  • Border Politics

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  • New materialisms, discourse analysis, and international relations : a radical intertextual approach

    Tom Lundborg;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Stopping boats, saving lives, securing subjects: Humanitarian borders in Europe and Australia:

    Adrian Little;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Security and the performative politics of resilience: Critical infrastructure protection and humanitarian emergency preparedness

    James Brassett;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Resilience, Critical Infrastructure, and Molecular Security: The Excess of “Life” in Biopolitics

    Tom Lundborg;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Fit for purpose? Fitting ontological security studies ‘into’ the discipline of International Relations: Towards a vernacular turn

    Stuart Croft;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes : new border politics?

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Critical Theorists and International Relations

    Jenny Edkins;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Borders, Territory, Law1

    Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Gender, race and border security practices: a profane reading of 'muscular liberalism’

    Victoria M. Basham;Nick Vaughan-Williams

  • Citizens and Security Threats: Issues, Perceptions and Consequences Beyond the National Frame

    Daniel Stevens;Nick Vaughan-Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Susan Banducci
Susan Banducci University of Exeter
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus University of British Columbia
Fiona McConnell
Fiona McConnell University of Oxford

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