Kiran Phull

Dr. Kiran Phull is a Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies, School of Security Studies. Her research critiques global knowledge production systems, focusing on how data technologies shape governance and social hierarchies. She holds a PhD from LSE (funded by SSHRC Canada) and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE, engaged in interdisciplinary teaching and curriculum design.

Her expertise spans critical approaches to data politics, epistemic hierarchies in IR, and the colonial legacies of social science methodologies. Current research examines radical data practices (e.g., W.E.B. Du Bois’s visualizations) and gender dynamics in academic metrics. She co-leads the Future Threats Lab, exploring human-centric responses to global crises, and supervises PhDs on topics like knowledge production and imperial data systems.

Teaching focuses on war studies methodologies and global governance frameworks. Notable contributions include exposing gender disparities in IR curricula and analyzing altmetrics biases. She collaborates with the Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR), addressing security/conflict dynamics and their societal impacts.