Prof Charlotte Heath-Kelly

Charlotte Heath-Kelly is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Her recent research focuses on data sharing between health services and intelligence/national security agencies, which utilises exceptions to data protection legislation to make medical data shareable.

She is the author of The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society and Countering Radicalisation (Oxford University Press 2025, with Sadi Shanaah); Death and Security: Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite (Manchester University Press 2017); and Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name (Routledge, 2013). 

Professor of Politics and International Studies (PAIS).

Primary Investigator on the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Neoliberal Terror? The Radicalisation of Social Policy in Europe’ (2020-25)

Recent Publications:

(2025) ‘Social defence’ and the resilience of the domestic war on terror: A genealogy of social security, national security, and defence‘, European Journal of International Security, 10(1), pp.9-26.

(2024) ‘Memory as Temporal Loop in the War on Terror: Using the Past to Secure the Future (and Failing)‘ in Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Eds: Dimcheva; Karcher; Parkes & Toribo Medina)

(2024) ‘Multi Agency Counter-Terrorism in Britain and Norway: Intelligence Agencies and the Administration of Welfare‘, Security Dialogue 55(4), 386-403.