Steve Pickering

Professor Steve Pickering is an Honorary Professor at Brunel Business School, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences, Brunel University London. As Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the Division of Politics and History, he oversees degrees in Politics, International Relations, History, and Sociology. His research bridges conflict studies, geospatial analysis, and big data methodologies.

• PhD in International Relations (University of Lancaster, 2010)
• Former positions: Department of Government, University of Essex; Kobe University, Japan

Research Interests focus on:

• Geographic determinism in conflict
• Border mapping and conflict dynamics
• Social media analysis for policy trends
• Decline of war and geospatial datasets
• Infrastructure measurement via quantitative methods

Scientific Contributions include software tools like SpatialGridBuilder and infra, as well as editorial leadership in academic publishing. His work spans quantitative political science, critical geopolitics, and conflict trend analysis.

• Research Fellow, Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation
• Council member, Conflict Research Society and ISA Political Demography Group

Teaching encompasses modules such as:

• Introduction to World Politics
• War and Geography
• China and Contemporary Geopolitics

PhD Supervision includes current student Nad Mylvaganam and former advisee Yasutaka Tominaga (Osaka University). Grants from the ESRC, Brunel University, and Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation support his work on pandemic compliance, border mapping, and geospatial datasets.