PhD Students

Chris is available to supervise high quality PhD students looking to carry out research that corresponds with his academic expertise concerning the interplay between identity, culture, security and domestic politics in India, China, South Asia, East Asia and the Indo-Pacific. He has completed the following supervisions (as First Supervisor) and external examinations:

Completed PhD Supervisions (at the University of St Andrews):

  • (2024) Mark Bhaskar: ‘The New Empires: Conquest and Subjugation in the 21st Century’.
  • (2023) Federico Solfrini: ‘History & Defence: Constructing North Korea’s Foreign Policy’.
  • (2022) Rupert Schulenburg: ‘US Strategic Adjustment and the Second “Loss of China”’.  [MPhil]
  • (2020) Fayaz Kacho: ‘Militarisation and Identity Formation: The Case of Kashmir (1989-2019)’.
  • (2018) Piyanat Soikham: ‘Indian Soft Power Towards South East Asia’.
  • (2015) Tim Steinecke: ‘China’s State-Related Overseas Capital Investment Projects’.
  • (2014) Matthew Funaiole: ‘History & Hierarchy: Foreign Policy Evolution of Modern Japan’.

External PhD Examinations:

  • (2024) Ranjith Dickwella: ‘Change and Continuity of Indo-Sri Lanka Relations in the Context of China’s Increased Involvement in Sri Lanka’, University of Waikato.
  • (2024) Shihui Yin: ‘Constructing American Strategic Narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative’, University of Edinburgh.
  • (2019) Ivan Lidarev: ‘Playing the Border Card: The Sino-Indian Territorial Dispute as a Game of Bargaining Leverage’, King’s College London.
  • (2018) Ales Karmazin: ‘Non-Western Approaches to Statehood: The Cases of China and India’, Charles University, Prague.
  • (2017) Ananya Chatterjee: ‘India’s Security After the Cold War’, University of Reading.  [MPhil]
  • (2015) Tseng Lan-Shu: ‘Transformation of Sino-Indian Relations, ‘88-‘13’, University of Nottingham.
  • (2015) Avinash Paliwal: ‘Sources of Change in India’s Afghan Policy, ‘96-‘14’, King’s College London.
  • (2015) Ananya Chatterjee: ‘India’s Defence and Security Policies Since 1991’, University of Reading.
  • (2014) Phan-Orn Powcharoen: ‘Rationality or Irrationality? Deterrence in the Survival Strategy of the North Korean Regime’, Durham University.