Sarah Lieberman

Postgraduate Lead - School of LPSS. Course Director MSc Security & IR. Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR. International Convenor for Politics and IR.

I have been a member of the Politics and International Relations team since completing my PhD in 2007. I am passionate about student learning, and constantly seek new and innovative teaching and learning methods.

My research work is on outer space and the politics and international relations of space and I have published widely on this and on the politics and regulation of genetically modified foods and crops. i Regularly attend conferences and workshops on outer space politics.

I am co-convenor of the BISA working group of Astropolitics (AWG), a steering group member of the ESSCA Space Policy Research group, a member of both the ISA and UACES, and I am on the Editorial Committee of the journal ERIS (European Review of International Studies).

I work closely with the international office to provide international experiences for students, in terms of exchanges, study abroad schemes and field trips. I also provide political commentary for several radio stations, most frequently BBC Radio Kent and Times Radio.

I currently teach a 3rd year module titled Contemporary Security and two Masters modules - Contemporary Security:

Theory and Practice, and Research Methods. I have in the past taught undergraduate modules on the following: Introduction to the European Union, Comparative Politics, Global Governance, Introduction to Politics and International Relations, International Political Economy, Critical Issues in Politics, and European Law.

My research is focussed on outer space, specifically looking at the regulation and commercialisation of the space sector. I have also carried out research on the security aspects of outer space, particularly with reference to the military uses of navigation and positioning satellite constellations such as GPS and Galileo. I have edited two collected volumes on space, published by Routledge: European Space Policy in 2019, and The Commercialisation of Space in 2023.

Research Projects

The role of vigilante community based policing and police reform in Nigeria. Researcher(s): Mr Iyah Iyah. Supervisor(s): Dr Perry Stanislas, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
A contemporary insight into Islamist extremist radicalisation and an exploration of the effectiveness of prevention and reformative strategies. Researcher(s): Mr Daniel Blanchfield. Supervisor(s): Dr Erika Brady, Dr Katarina Ozcakir Mozova, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
A critical analysis of online dispute resolution of E-commerce disputes in the Nigeria: The current legal challenges and recommendations for better practice. Researcher(s): Mrs Chiamaka Igwe. Supervisor(s): Dr Emo Pearce, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
A REVIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL COMITY TO CATER FOR THE CHALLENGES POSED BY THE INAPPLICABILITY OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION ON INVESTMENT COURT AWARDS. Researcher(s): Miss Jennifer Okotume. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Assessing the Impact of Participatory Action Research on Police Perceptions and Engagement with Homeless People – The Homelessness Project. Researcher(s): Ms Cassandra Unger. Supervisor(s): Professor Steve Tong, Dr Jennie Bristow, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Dr Max Stafford. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Professor David Bates. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
Hybrid Warfare: An Examination of How Russian Foreign Policy since the Annexation of Crimea has Accelerated the Evolving Nature of Contemporary Warfare and Security (2014-Present). Researcher(s): Mr Thomas Knight. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Professor David Bates. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Malicious comment analysis in online newspaper sites using AI approaches. Researcher(s): Mr Nima Movassagh. Supervisor(s): Dr Scott Turner, Dr Amina Souag, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
People not just books: An investigation into the knowledge and experience of Trauma Informed Practice in the Justice System. Researcher(s): Miss Catherine O'Neill. Supervisor(s): Dr Katarina Ozcakir Mozova, Dr Martin O'Neill, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Private versus public Interests in International Investment Law: A need for reform through a human rights perspective.. Researcher(s): Miss Petrena Notice. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Professor Robin Bryant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Revisiting The Fair and Equitable Treatment Provisions in Pakistani IIAs. Researcher(s): Miss Zahra Fatima. Supervisor(s): Dr Emo Pearce, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Secessionist agitations and their impact on Nigeria’s corporate existence: the study of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Researcher(s): Mr Gabriel Oduh. Supervisor(s): Dr Dele Babalola, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
SPACE TECHNOLOGY AS A CENTREPIECE FOR ADDRESSING NIGERIA’S DOMESTIC CHALLENGES AND STRENGTHENING ITS REGIONAL POWER. Researcher(s): Mr Kehinde Abolarin. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Dr Laura Cashman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
The Impact of Behaviour Detection Officer Training on proactive policing.. Researcher(s): Miss Mary Bolton. Supervisor(s): Dr Katarina Ozcakir Mozova, Dr Tara Dickens, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
The Politics of Place and Identity: the Territorialisation of the Labour Party. Researcher(s): Ms Jo Rothery. Supervisor(s): Professor David Bates, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
The title needs amending to add a sub-heading relating Kent? It is up to the candidate to come up with the wording.. Researcher(s): Ms Hellen Frost. Supervisor(s): Professor Dominic Wood, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
The UK’s post Brexit Space Policy. Researcher(s): Mr Jack Cerullo. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Lieberman, Dr Kos Siliafis, Professor David Bates. [Postgraduate Research Project]
This research will focus on the different political perspectives of democracy based on J. Rawls and J. Habermas.. Researcher(s): Mr Iwry Pestana. Supervisor(s): Dr Demetris Tillyris, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
UK Foreign Aid Programme in the East African Region (Uganda and Kenya): a justification for a new regulatory framework. Researcher(s): Miss Clare Nalukwago. Supervisor(s): Professor Dominic Wood, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
Unlocking Catalonia’s National Identity ‘Deadlock’: a Social Psychological Examination of Nationhood, Unionism and Secession in the Region.. Researcher(s): Miss Nuria Martinez Tevar. Supervisor(s): Dr Dennis Nigbur, Dr Sarah Lieberman. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Sarah Lieberman "Throwing the baby out with the bath water? Brexit. space and what comes next." ESSCA Annual Conference Canterbury 19th April 2018
Sarah Lieberman “The EU’s space strategy: to what extent can the EU provide and promote an autonomous space and (space) security policy?” UACES Annual Conference Krakow September 2017
Sarah Lieberman “Brexit and the UK Job Market” UACES Annual Conference Krakow September 2017
Sarah Lieberman “Satellite Security: hegemonic defence structures and their impact on the European Union” BISA Annual Conference Brighton June 2017
Sarah Lieberman “European Space Policy: Trump, populism and autonomy” ESSCA Annual Conference Cambridge April 2017
Sarah Lieberman “Space Popularisation and Cultural Imperialism” Presented at the UACES Annual Conference London September 2016
Sarah Lieberman “From Lippershey to Rosetta: Europe’s Contribution to the Popularisation of Space” Presented at the ESSCA Annual Conference Rome April 2016
Sarah Lieberman “Strange Spaces: An International Political Economy Analysis of Space Exploration” Presented at the 2015 UACES Conference Bilbao September 2015
Sarah Lieberman “Comitology: EU Actorness on agricultural biotechnology: what lies beneath?” Presented at the 2015 UACES Conference Bilbao September 2015
Sarah Lieberman “How Supermarkets Decide What We Eat: The Curious Cases of GMOs and Horsemeat” Presented at the 2014 UACES Conference, Cork, 2^nd September 2014
Sarah Lieberman “Integrating formative assessment into curriculum based learning” Presented at The 1st European Conference on Teaching and Learning Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Maastricht, 27^th June 2014
Sarah Lieberman “Using Facebook as a Learning Tool” Presented at the Teaching European Studies Post-Lisbon Conference, London Metropolitan University, 12^th May 2011
Sarah Lieberman, Anthony Zito “Government and Governance in European GMO Policy” presented at the Brocher Foundation Conference ‘Regulating Next Generation Genomics: Emerging Agricultural Biotechnology Governance Challenges’, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 July 2010.
Sarah Lieberman, Tim Gray and AJR Groom “Moratorium: in search of a concept in an environmental context” Presented (by AJR Groom) at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro Campus (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 22, 2009
Lieberman, S and Taylor, K (2005) “Participatory Decision Making: A comparative analysis of the public debates on GMOs conducted in France and Britain” Conference paper presented July 2005, Interdisciplinary Net Conference: Environmental Justice & Global Citizenship

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Finding space for the European Space Agency Lieberman, S., Hoerber, T., (08 Jun 2024): Elsevier. [Journal article]
Management actions to address the climate emergency: Motivations and barriers for SMEs and other societal micro/meso-level groups O'Leary, S., Lieberman, S., Gulyas, A., Ogilvie, M., Bates, D., Heath, T., Pelz, C., Williams, S., Shalet, D.: Elsevier. [Journal article]
Space diplomacy and the International Space Station Cashman, L., Lieberman, S., (09 Apr 2024): Brill. [Journal article]
Critical spaces: European and U.S. institutions for outer space Brandenburg, Matthea, Lieberman, Sarah, (03 Oct 2022, 02 Jan 2022): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
The climate emergency across business, community and campaign groups: motivations and barriers to driving change for the common good O'Leary, S., Gulyas, A., Lieberman, S., Ogilvie, M., Bates, D., Heath, T., Shalet, D.. [Journal article]
The climate emergency across business, community and campaign groups: Motivations and barriers to driving change for the common good O'Leary, S., Lieberman, S., Gulyas, A., Ogilvie, M., Bates, D., Heath, T., Pelz, C., Williams, S., Shalet, D., (25 Sep 2024): Canterbury Christ Church University. [Journal article]
ESA and NASA: an historical institutionalist reading of European space policy in an age of autonomy and isolationism Lieberman, S., European Space Policy: Past Consolidation, Present Challenges and Future Perspectives: Routledge. [Book chapter]
European space policy: past consolidation, present challenges and future perspectives Hoerber, T., Lieberman, S., (2019): Routledge. [Book]
Understanding our changing relationship with space: an international political economy reading of space popularisation Lieberman, S., (Aug 2017): Elsevier. [Journal article]
Using Facebook as an interactive learning environment in European political studies Lieberman, S., (07 Jun 2013): Palgrave Macmillan. [Journal article]
Contested frames: comparing EU versus US GMO policy Lieberman, S., Zito, A., (2012), Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies. London: Routledge. [Book chapter]
Moratoria in international politics: a comparative analysis of the moratoria on genetically modified products and commercial whaling Lieberman, S., Gray, T., Groom, A., (Nov 2012): Wiley-Blackwell. [Journal article]
GMOs and the developing world: a precautionary interpretation of biotechnology Lieberman, S., Gray, T., (Aug 2008). [Journal article]
The World Trade Organization's report on the EU's moratorium on biotech products: the wisdom of the US challenge to the EU in the WTO Lieberman, S., Gray, T., (Feb 2008). [Journal article]
The role of political myth in the international conflict between the USA and the EU over genetically modified foods and crops Lieberman, S., Gray, T.: John Wiley & Sons. [Journal article]
The World Trade Organisation's report on the EU's moratorium on biotech products Lieberman, S., Political Studies Association Central and Northern England Postgraduate Conference. [Conference paper]
The so-called ‘moratorium’ on the licensing of new genetically modified (GM) products by the European Union 1998–2004: a study in ambiguity Lieberman, S., Gray, T., (2006): Routledge. [Journal article]

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