Dr Podder is a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at Kings College London. Before her current role she was a Lecturer in International Security and Development at the Centre for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University. Her primary areas of research are post-conflict reconstruction (DDR/SSR), civil wars and youth in peacebuilding. Dr Podder has undertaken fieldwork in a number of conflict states, this podcast focuses on her research in the Philippines with a particular focus on child soldiers. 

Dr Podder is interviewed by Dr Majbritt Lyck-Bowen with some of Majbritt's students from the MA in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding at the University of Winchester.