Amanda Chisholm is a lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. Her research explores private military and security companies (PMSCs) from a feminist political economy and security lens, with specific interest in the global South labour chains that underpin security operations. She has recently published in Globalisations, Security Dialogue and International Feminist Journal of Politics. Amanda has recently been awarded an ESRC Future Leaders grant where she will be conducting ethnographic research on unarmed security and logistics labour chains in Qatar.