Student Profile

Beverley Loke, BA (Hons) (Melbourne), MA (ANU)

Beverley commenced her doctoral studies in the Department of International Relations at the ANU in 2009 with the support of an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and an ANU PhD Scholarship. She previously completed her MA in International Relations at the ANU as a Hedley Bull Scholar and an Endeavour Asia Award recipient, and also holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from the University of Melbourne.

Her research interests include IR theory, security studies, international ethics and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. She is particularly fascinated with the rise of China in a primarily US-led international order and hopes, in her thesis, to examine how power and responsibility interact in periods of geopolitical power shifts.

Beverley has published in the Melbourne Journal of Politics and RSIS Commentaries, and has forthcoming publications in the Australian Journal of International Affairs (co-authored) and Asian Security. She was previously a research analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and an intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-Asia). She was also a panelist at the Third Oceanic Conference on International Studies at the University of Queensland in 2008.

Email: beverley.loke@anu.edu.au