His research areas include civil war, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and war-to-peace transitions. Dr Ucko is also an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches a class on social movement theory and armed mobilization. Between 2003-2016, he helped run a research project at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, on the challenges of third-party intervention in war-to-peace transitions. Between 2008-2010, Dr Ucko was a Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, Germany, and at the RAND Corporation in Washington DC. From 2001-03 he served as Deputy Defence Analyst (Armed Conflict) at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS) in London, where he helped create and develop the Armed Conflict Database.