{"id":15859,"date":"2022-06-14T04:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/sam-cooke\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:55:22","slug":"sam-cooke","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/sam-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Louden-Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, with a wealth of teaching experience. I have a variety of research interests, with my areas of expertise being gender equality, secularism, and social movements in the Middle East North Africa region. My newest project explores the impact of childhood experiences on gender equality activists\u2019 decisions to become politically engaged in Egypt and Iran. This builds on my doctoral research which explored the effects of secularism on gender equality in family law in Egypt and Iran between 1920 and 1939.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

I have worked on projects relating to non-western theories of international relations, decolonising the curriculum, AI in higher education, and social media as a pedagogical tool. I have also worked to relaunch Study Abroad within our School.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Alongside this, I have experience in local politics as town councillor in 2 different areas, as well as serving as Deputy Mayor (2021-2022) and Mayor (2022-2023) of Kenilworth, Warwickshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a qualitative researcher, specialising in gender equality and secularism in the Middle East and North Africa region. I teach modules across international relations, politics, human geography, and sociology degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129000003355,"parent":0,"template":"","schools":[147],"subject_area":[],"staff_tag":[63],"class_list":["post-15859","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schools-arts-culture-environment","staff_tag-society-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/15859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"schools","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schools?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"subject_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject_area?post=15859"},{"taxonomy":"staff_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_tag?post=15859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}