Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- The Northern Ireland problem and peace process
- Contemporary Irish political history
- Ethnic conflict and peace-making
- International contributions to peace-making (particularly US and EU roles)
- The role of diaspora communities in ethnic conflict and peace-making
Public outreach & key achievements
- Joint Editor of Irish Political Studies (2018-21)
- Academic consultant for programme on John Hume in RTÉ’s “Ireland’s Greatest” series – for which
Hume won the all-Ireland public poll (2010): - Fulbright Scholar (2018-19)
Research students
| PhD area | Consociationalism and Control: Excluding the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon |
| Name | Andrew Mikhael (2013) |
| PhD area | ‘Beating the British in Washington’: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Northern Ireland during the Carter Administration |
| Name | Alison Meagher (2017) |
| PhD area | Discursive legitimisation of the Colombian peace process in the context of war |
| Name | Allison Aylward (2020) |
| PhD area | ‘Garret the Good?’: Garret FitzGerald, Anglo-Irish relations and the Northern Ireland problem, 1981-1987 |
| Name | Alexander Jeffery (2023) |
| PhD area | The United States Department of State and Northern Ireland 2001 – 2007: How the bureaucratic dynamics of an executive branch of the federal government affected American intervention in the peace process |
| Name | Richard Hargy (2023) |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | ‘Beating the British in Washington’: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Northern Ireland during the Carter Administration |
| Name | Alison Meagher |
| Current position | Irish Government Diplomatic Attaché to Brussels, (CIVCOM, Conflict Prevention, Mediation and Stabilisation/COCON); former Irish Government Deputy Consul in Shanghai |