Bettina Renz

Contact

• workRoom C12 Law and Social Sciences building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14056
• fax0115 95 14859
• bettina.renz@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Bettina Renz obtained her MA and MSc in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham in 2005. She has previously lectured at King's College London at the Royal Air Force College and was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham's European Research Institute before being appointed to a lectureship in International Security at the University of Nottingham in 2007.

Administrative roles:

• Deputy Admissions Officer
• Deputy Director; Conflict, Security and Terrorism Centre
• Associate Editor; Political Studies
• Member of the University Senate

Teaching Summary

Dr Renz's teaching interests are in the broad themes of security studies with a particular emphasis on the former Soviet region. With a background in Russian studies her teaching centres on… read more

Research Summary

Dr Renz's main area of research is Russian security and defence policy. Specifically, she has researched civil-military relations, media-military relations, security sector reform, and the perception… read more

Dr Renz is keen to take on PhD students who are interested in any area of Russian foreign, defence and security policy as well as contemporary strategy.

PhD students supervised

• Nataliya Danilova - War commemoration in Russia and in the UK (completed 2012)
• Jakub Kulhanek - Russia-NATO relations
• Francesca Silvestri - US-India relations during the Cold War
• Valentin Schneider - German Prisoners of War in Normandy, 1944-1948

Dr Renz's teaching interests are in the broad themes of security studies with a particular emphasis on the former Soviet region. With a background in Russian studies her teaching centres on developments in contemporary Russia. Her PhD research into civil-military relations further focused her expertise on the politics of security and defence in Russia and in other former Soviet states. Her teaching is informed by research carried out into contemporary Russian security and defence policy involving regular research visits to Russia. Having taught defence studies at RAF Cranwell until her appointment at Nottingham in 2007 Dr Renz is also interested in strategic studies with a focus on the use of air power in contemporary wars and conflict. Dr Renz is a graduate of the King's Institute for Learning and Teaching and is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Undergraduate Modules

• M12005 Global Security
• M13101 Russia and Its Neighbours: Security Developments in the Soviet Successor States

Postgraduate Modules

• M14073 Air Power and Modern Conflict
• M14118 Strategy and Security

Current Research

Dr Renz's main area of research is Russian security and defence policy. Specifically, she has researched civil-military relations, media-military relations, security sector reform, and the perception of security threats in contemporary Russia. Her book, Securitising Russia: The Domestic Politics of Putin (co-authored with Edwin Bacon) was published by Manchester University Press in 2006. Current research focuses on reforms of the security sector in contemporary Russia with a particular emphasis on institutions dealing with military operations other than war. Having lectured at King's College London at the Royal Air Force College from 2006-2007, she is also interested in the role of air power in modern conflict.

Dr Renz is a Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.