Rodrigo Campos is a Lecturer in the Department of International Development at King's.

Rodrigo is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of security, political economy and religion, with a specific focus on the global dimensions of Evangelical activism within police and military institutions and its relationship to democratic governance. He has extensive ethnographic experience in Brazil, Western Sahara, Egypt and England. He directed the documentaries 'A Thread of Hope: Independence or War in Western Sahara' (2017) and 'School Without Censorship' (2018), and the co-authored the book 'No Way to Gaza' (London: MEMO Publishers, 2020).

Before joining KCL, he was a Research Associate at the University of York, where he also conducted his PhD in Politics. He is currently a First Book Fellow from the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF), working to transform his PhD thesis into a book, which will be published with Manchester University Press.

Research

• Policing
• Militarism
• Evangelicalism
• Brazil
• Far-Right politics

Rodrigo is currently working on two critical investigations on policing, far-right and civil society.

His PhD research was about the impact of Evangelical base-building with the police forces in Brazil and its relationship to the far-right radicalisation. His work adds a substantive theoretical and empirical contribution to current debates on the global far-right, with a specific focus on the Global South. This research is currently being expanded for a book publication with Manchester University Press, and is receiving the support from the ISRF First Book Fellowship.

His other work is based on his postdoctoral research at the University of York, where he worked in the project "Volunteers and Vulnerabilities: the Politics of Policing Partnerships", funded by the ESRC Vulnerabilities and Policing Futures Research Centre. The project investigates how police, volunteer organisations and the public collaborate around coastal borders and modern slavery.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• 7YYDN040 Introduction to Qualitative Methods