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Joshua Larcombe

Graduate Tutor

School of Law and Politics

Email
LarcombeJ@cardiff.ac.uk

Overview

I am a full-time PhD student in the School of Law and Politics. My research focusses on British development policy and the creation of DfID during the early years of the Blair administration. I use a variety of primary sources - including archival and original interview material - to analyse the effect that the creation of DfID had within the British core executive, and on British foreign policy. 

 

 

Publication

Websites

Teaching

I currently teach two first-year modules in the School of Law and Politics:

  • Introduction to Globalisation
  • Introduction to International Relations

Last year I taught an additional module in the School of Law and Politics:

  • Introduction to Government

Biography

Speaking engagements

Presentation to the Postgraduate Symposium, December 2022.

  • Hosted by the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University.
  • I presented a collection of thoughts on the importance of political ideology in the foundation of DfID. 

Invited presentation, November 2023.

  • Hosted by the Cardiff University Centre of International Law and Multilaterialism.
  • I presented a comparison of DfID engagement in the two interventions in Kosovo (1999) and Sierra Leone (2000).

Committees and reviewing

Co-organiser of the Breaking Boundaries Conference, May 2022.

  • Hosted by the Doctoral Academy, Cardiff University. 
  • As part of the organising committee I worked on creating a cohesive theme, marketing the conference across the GW4 Group, and selecting academics to present.

Research themes

Specialisms

  • British history
  • UK government and politics
  • Development studies
  • British foreign policy