Teacher, researcher, podcaster and author.

Dr Miranda Melcher (FHEA) earned her PhD in Defence Studies from King’s College London, where she researched how to negotiate and implement peace treaties. Her book is out from Bloomsbury: Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties.

Her research identifies methods for integrating opposing forces into unified post-conflict security institutions through peace treaty negotiation and implementation, with her qualitative historical case studies focusing on Mozambique and Angola. She was a 2022-2023 Fellow at the Civil Wars Paths research centre at the University of Sheffield.

Dr. Melcher (CMALT) is currently further developing her experience in education technology in her current post as an educational technologist in the Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) department at City, University of London. 

Prior to her PhD, she earned an MA in Intelligence and International Relations from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and a BA in Political Science from Yale University. 

Dr. Melcher is prolific podcast host for the New Books Network and Just Access, interviewing over 700 academics and human rights professionals.

Dr. Melcher is also a devoted teacher, both in higher and secondary education. She has taught and designed curricula both on her specific doctoral research as well as a wider range of topics. She earned recognition as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) in 2020 and was nominated for the King’s College London Educator’s Award by her undergraduate students in 2021.

Dr. Melcher has also developed a strong research interest in pedagogy, especially in improving inclusive education practices for neurodiverse and disabled students. Building on her teaching experiences (see above, as well as over five years of 1:1 private tutoring support, primarily for students with learning differences), she teaches academics how to make their teaching practices more inclusive through workshops, talks, blog posts, guides, and a co-authored book published by Springer in 2020.