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Dr Stuart Aveyard

BA (York), MA, PhD (QUB)

Lecturer in Modern British History

 
E-mail: saveyard01@qub.ac.uk

Dr Stuart Aveyard completed a BA (Hons) in History at the University of York and an MA in Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. His PhD, on British government policy in Northern Ireland under Labour 1974-79, was completed at QUB in 2011, and he is currently revising this for publication as a monograph with Manchester University Press.

Dr Aveyard worked previously as a Research Fellow at Queen’s with Dr Sean O’Connell and Dr Paul Corthorn on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992’. He was appointed temporary lecturer in Modern British History at QUB in September 2013.
 
Research interests
 
Dr Aveyard’s research interests encompass modern British and Irish history, particularly the Northern Ireland conflict and the governance of postwar Britain.
 
Publications
 
No Solution: British government policy in Northern Ireland under Labour 1974-79, forthcoming with Manchester University Press
 
‘“We couldn’t do a Prague”: British government responses to loyalist strikes in Northern Ireland 1974-77’, forthcoming in Irish Historical Studies, May 2014
 
‘The “English Disease” is to look for a “Solution of the Irish Problem”’: British constitutional policy in Northern Ireland after Sunningdale 1974–1976’, Contemporary British History, December 2012