Amanda Chisholm is a lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. She is a recent recipient of the ESRC future leaders grant “From Military to Market” and is conducting fieldwork on Nepalese security labour chains in the global security industry. Amanda’s work focuses on the racial and gendered logics and practices that underpin the economies of the global private security industry. Her recent work appears in Critical Military Studies, Globalizations , Security Dialogue and International Feminist Journal of Politics. She has also contributed to various edited collections and handbooks on gender and the military and global private security. You can find out more about her ESRC project here and follower her on Twitter here.

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Joanna Tidy is an Anniversary Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. She has published,most recently in International Feminist Journal of Politics , Critical Military Studies, Review of International Studies and International Political Sociology , on a range of topics relating to war, militaries and gender. These include the gender politics of military opposition to war, the visual regimes of war, and everyday war commemoration, nostalgia and conscience capitalism.Her main current research project focuses on soldiers in jobs that are associated with the ‘rear echelon’. You can find out more about her work here and follow her on twitter.