Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusue is a Lecturer in International Relations, following her appointment as a Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She joined Loughborough University in 2021 after completing her AHRC-Techne funded PhD, Governing Counter-Terrorism: Imaginaries of Radicalisation in the British War on Terror 2005-2020. She also holds master’s degrees in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Feminist and Gender Studies (University of the Basque Country).
In 2022, Itoiz was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for her project Constructing the Illiberal Citizen? Radicalisation Prevention, Counter-Terrorism, and the Media in the UK, which critically examined the development of counter-radicalisation strategies in the post-2005 period. In the same year, she received a Teaching Staff Excellence Award at Loughborough University and was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusue is a member of the Centre for Security Studies (CSS) and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) at Loughborough University. Her research examines violence, with particular attention to the media, (in)security, and processes of social change. Her work lies at the intersection of Critical Terrorism and Security Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Queer Studies.
Previously, Itoiz worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC-IRC-funded project Tackling Online Hate in Football, which investigated the rise of hate speech and abuse in online discussions about football. During her Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellowship, she focused on the commemoration of political violence in the Basque Country. Bringing together Memory Studies and Critical Security Studies, her project explored how memory practices surrounding past political violence can foster societal well-being or deepen existing divisions. She is currently researching queer memorialisation and the creation of safe(r) spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities.
Itoiz’s work has been published in leading social science journals, including Security Dialogue, Feminist Media Studies, British Politics, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is also the author of the recent monograph Re-Defining Terrorism: Imaginaries of Radicalisation and Radicalisation, which examines the emergence of the counter-radicalisation agenda in the UK and beyond. The book analyses how (counter)radicalisation, as a new technology of governance, is embedded in the production of knowledge, power, and subjectivity. It offers original insights into the extensive effects of counter-terrorism and highlights the media’s role in shaping new imaginaries of terror.
Itoiz has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences organised by leading scholarly associations, including the Memory Studies Association (MSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN), the British International Studies Association (BISA), and the European International Studies Association (EISA).
- International Political Theory (PIA615)
- The Politics of Terrorism (PIC803)
Itoiz is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students working in the following areas:
- Critical Terrorism and Security Studies
- Governmentality Studies
- Memorialisation of Violence
- Feminist and Queer Studies
- The Politics of Popular Culture
Monograph
- Rodrigo-Jusue, I. (2025) Re-Defining Terrorism: Imaginaries of Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation.
Journal Articles
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2026) Desecuritising working-class struggle: memory activism and active audiences in the commemoration of 3 March 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Security Dialogue, ISSN: 0967-0106. DOI: 10.1093/secdia/xhaf022.
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I; Liston, K; Doidge, M; Black, J; Sinclair, G; Fletcher, T; Kearns, C; Lynn, T. (2025) ‘#SeAcabó: How a mass-mediated “social drama” made visible and confronted (subjective and objective) violence in women’s football in Spain’. Feminist Media Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2461123
- Doidge, M; Rodrigo-Jusué, I; Black, J; Fletcher, T; Sinclair, G; Rosati, P.; Kearns, C; Kilvington, D; Liston, K; Lynn, T. (2024) ‘"Kneeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country": Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(20), 5067–5084 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2377775
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘“It’s like almost hypnotised people”: An exploration of vernacular discourses and social imaginaries of terrorism in the United Kingdom’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(6), 1266-1284 https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231218167
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018’. British Politics, 19(1), 64–83 10.1057/s41293-023-00249-8
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2022) ‘Counter-Terrorism Training “At Your Kitchen Table”: The promotion of “CT citizens” and the securitization of everyday life in the UK’ in Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(2), 290-310 https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2021.2013014
Book Chapter
- Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘Contested memories and the (re)construction of violent pasts in the Basque Country: A critical examination of the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria-Gasteiz’, Karcher, K., Dimcheva, Y., Toribio-Medina, M. (Ed.), Remembering, Forgetting and Anticipating Urban Terrorism in Europe since 2004, Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies, 103-128 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9_7