Advocating for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham

Columba Achilleos-Sarll is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Before joining Birmingham in 2021, Columba was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, an affiliated research fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her primary research examines the United Nation's Security Council's 'Women, Peace and Security' (WPS) agenda. More broadly, her work focuses on feminist and post/decolonial approaches to international relations, civil society and advocacy, feminist foreign policy, and visual global politics.