Catherine Eschle

Catherine Eschle is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Government and Public Policy, serving as Undergraduate Director and co-Director of Teaching. Her work bridges feminist International Relations (IR), social movement studies, and nuclear politics. She co-founded the FemNukes research network in 2020 to integrate feminist and post-colonial critiques of the global nuclear order. Her research focuses on feminist antinuclear activism, protest camps, and transnational solidarity, with key publications including Feminism and Protest Camps (2023) and Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement (2010).

• Education: PhD in Feminism from University of Sussex (1999), MSc from LSE (1995), BSc from University of Bristol (1993)
• Teaching: Honours/Masters courses on Feminism and Politics, Global Nuclear Politics, and Applied Gender Studies

Her research interests emphasize feminist critiques of nuclear militarism, post-colonial reimaginings of security, and the entanglement of academic and activist work. Recent projects include Weaving Webs Across Oceans (2023–) exploring Indigenous and Greenham Women solidarity, and The Contested Afterlives of Nuclear Bases (2025–2026). She has received the Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize (2019) and a 2024 award for activism in disarmament.

Her work highlights how protest camps act as sites of collective memory and everyday resistance, while advancing decolonized understandings of nuclear politics. Grants include British Academy funding and initiatives fostering transnational antinuclear collaboration.