Professor Paul Bew
Professor of Politics, emeritus (PhD Cambridge, MRIA)
Standards in Public Life Committee: Chair (from 1/9/2013)
Contact Details
Room 025.01.006
Tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3660
Email: p.bew@qub.ac.uk
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Formerly a historical adviser to the Bloody Sunday Tribunals, I am a crossbench peer who served on the London Local Authority Bill Select Committee in 2007 and act as secretary to the All Party Group on Archives and history. In 2011, I served on the select committee of both houses on the defamation bill, which included key issues of academic freedom. House of Lords/House of Commons Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill (HL Paper203, HC 930-1 published on 19 October 2011). Published on 19 October 2011 by authority of the House of Commons.
Member of the council of the Constitution Unit council. Chaired the independent review Key Stage 2 (SATs’) provision in England which reported in July 2011 and was accepted by the UK government.
I am an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and Member of Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).
I have just published Enigma: A new Life of Charles Stewart Parnell (Gill and Macmillan 2011) and continue to contribute to the media. This book was named by the Sunday Times as a biography of the year. Member of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly.
Teaching Areas
Irish History and politics.
Research Interests
My main interest is in Irish history and politics. Currently editing Behind the Emerald Curtain due for publication by the Royal Irish Academy in 2011
Recent/Selected Publications
- Author, Ireland: The Politics of Enmity (Oxford History of Modern Europe Series)
- Author, The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement (Dublin, 2007)
- Co-author, Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland (1997)
- Co-author, Northern Ireland 1921-97: Political Forces and Social Classes (1997)
- Author, Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 (1994)