Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Social movements
- Conflict and peacebuilding
- Nationalism; populism
- LGBTQ activism
- Memory
- Political violence
- Multiculturalism
- Sectarianism
Public outreach & key achievements
I have sat on the Carnegie Trust Grants Panel and have been an Inner International Board Member for the Irish Research Council.
Interviewed on BBC national news, Sky News Live, France 24, BBC Radio Scotland, LBC (Andrew Castle Show), Metro Radio. Consultant for BBC’s One Show on feature about Irish migrants in London, and for Channel 4 documentary called The Real Patron Saints. Research featured in the Washington Post, Reuters, Thompson Reuters Foundation, Irish Independent, Chronicle of Higher Education, Belfast Telegraph and the Belfast Newsletter.
I have written op-ed pieces published in the Conversation, the Independent, Huffington Post, and Slate Magazine
Research students
Name: Nick Adams
PhD title: Masculinity among Oil Workers in the North Sea
Years of Study: 2016-2019
Country: Scotland
Alumni: Where are they now
Name: Jan Melia
PhD title: Post Conflict Police Reform, Masculinity & Gender Based Violence in Northern Ireland & Bosnia Herzegovina
Years of Study: 2013-2017
Country: Northern Ireland
Current position: Chief Executive of Women's Aid Federation Northern Ireland
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