Research outputs per year
Research outputs per year
Accepting PhD Students
Professor Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics, is the Director, Security and Risk Research and Innovation at the University of Portsmouth. His research spans the ethical and other human aspects of drone operations in military, policing and wider security contexts, and the ethics of autonomous weapon systems. His latest research project examines screen-mediated visual trauma, entitled ‘Understanding moral injury and belief change in the experiences of police investigators in child exploitation units.’ In 2016 Peter was granted unprecedented research access to the two RAF Reaper (drone) squadrons for his latest book, Reaper Force: Inside Britain’s Drone Wars (October 2018). He is currently an Expert Adviser to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones. From 2008 to 2017 he taught ethics and also air power studies at Royal Air Force College Cranwell for Kings College London and the University of Portsmouth respectively. Peter holds a PhD in War Studies from Kings College London which explores the emergence of Western war ethics. From 2001 to 2008 he served as a Royal Air Force chaplain.
The politics and ethics of war and military intervention, the ethics and ethos of lethal military drone operations, the politics and ethics of identity, and the application of Foucauldian conceptions of power, truth and subjectivity to contemporary political discourse. Peter is available for PhD supervision in these fields.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Ph.D., A genealogy of the ethical subject in the just war tradition., King's College London
1 Oct 2005 → 1 Aug 2010
Award Date: 1 Aug 2010
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Supervisor: Jabri, V. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Preston, J., Hendy, I., Liu, J., Couceiro, F., Fletcher, S., March, A., Rumble, H., Teeuw, R., Potts, J., Amara, A., Inkpen, R., Baily, B., Lundgren, A., Hopgood, A., Lee, P., Choukroune, L., Blunn, G. & Want, A.
30/07/21 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
20/04/20 → 24/07/20
Project: Research
Lee, P., Smith, T., Khalfey, S. & Rauta, V.
1/02/16 → 31/03/16
Project: Research
1/08/14 → 31/07/15
Project: Research
Peter Lee (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Peter Lee (Chair)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network or group
Peter Lee (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network or group
Peter Lee (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Peter Lee (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
28/05/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
26/02/22 → 21/03/22
14 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
11/03/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment
17/12/21
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment