Dr Rita Floyd

• Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation, University of Oxford, 2012
• PhD in International Relations, University of Warwick, 2007
• Masters by Research in Politics, University of Edinburgh,2004
• BA (Hons) International Relations and Politics, University of Portsmouth, 2003, 1st class

Dr Floyd has been in Birmingham since April 2012 when she was appointed Birmingham Fellow in Conflict and Security. Before then she was a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick and before then an ESRC post-doctoral fellow. She received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Warwick. Her PhD was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press as Security and the Environment: Securitisation theory and US Environmental Security Policy. It appeared in paperback in 2014 and it was translated into Chinese in 2021. 

Dr Floyd's second monograph is called The Morality of Security: A theory of Just Securitization. This book was  published in 2019, also by Cambridge University Press. The book appeared in paperback in September 2021. This book was shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Prize in 2020. 

Dr Floyd's  third monograph: The Duty to secure: From just to mandatory securitization is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in late 2023

Undergraduate:

• POLS 319: Security in Europe: Actors, Crisis and Threats (formerly European Security) 

Postgraduate:

• G22: Security Studies 

Dr Floyd works on ethics and security, specifically the ethics of securitization. She also has an interest in climate and environmental security as well as an interest in the English school. 

• I am a Fellow of the Institute for Environmental Security (IES), (www.envirosecurity.org/). 
• From July 2010 – July 2011 I was an independent consultant to the Climate Change and Energy Programme of the New Economics Foundation (http://www.neweconomics.org/) on a DFID sponsored systematic review.
  See: Johnson, V., Fitzpatrick, I., Floyd, R. & Simms, A. 2011. What is the evidence that scarcity and shocks in freshwater resources cause conflict instead of promoting collaboration? CEE review 10-010. Collaboration for Environmental Evidence: www.environmentalevidence.org/SR10010.html