Rebecca Tapscott

Dr Rebecca Tapscott is a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Politics and International Relations Department. She is also an Ambizione Research Fellow and lecturer at the Graduate Institute in Geneva (IHEID), as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include:

• Political violence, conflict, and security
• Authoritarian regimes
• Gender and militarized masculinities
• International development
• Research ethics governance.

Her publications include:

• Tapscott, Rebecca. “Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda” Oxford University Press (2021).
• Tapscott, Rebecca. "Militarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism," International Affairs (November 2020).
• Abonga, Francis, Raphael Kerali, Holly Porter and Rebecca Tapscott. "Naked bodies and collective action: repertoires of protest in Uganda’s militarised, authoritarian regime." Civil Wars 22:2-3 (2020), 198-223.
• Tapscott, Rebecca. “Policing men: Militarized masculinity, youth livelihoods, and security in conflict-affected northern Uganda” Disasters 42:S1 (2018), S119-S139.