Role
An Jacobs is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations with teaching and leadership responsibilities at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also supervises PhD students.
An is the Course Leader for the MA International Relations Distance Learning Course, and the Module Leader for various online and taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules. She teaches on subjects related to International Security, Security Studies, Peacebuilding, EU Foreign Policy, and International Relations in Theory and Practice.
Career overview
Before joining the Department in September 2019, An Jacobs held the position of Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst for over five years. She has operational experience working as a Political Advisor in the EU Rule of Law Mission EULEX in Kosovo for two years, and has furthermore held positions at the Center for Security Studies (ETH Zurich) and Maastricht University (NL). She has conducted fieldwork in the Balkans, Ukraine, Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and she has taught at military academies in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and South America.
Research areas
Her research interests include Security Sector Reform in conflict-affected environments, higher education as a conflict resolution tool, gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding, the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy, European migration policies and discourses, and military education.
External activity
An is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance (IDIG) at Loughborough University London.
She is also on the editorial board of Parameters, the US Army War College Quarterly.
She is a member of the British International Studies Association (BISA) and University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Publications
Academic Articles / Book Chapters (selection) Policy Briefs / Opinion Pieces / Book Review (selection)