Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- International Relations
Public outreach & key achievements
- Dr Andrew Thomson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and a Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He is also on the board of the Conflict Research Society.
- Andrew's UKRI/ESRC-funded Positive Peace in Northern Ireland have advanced evidence-based approaches to positive peace and informed how positive peace and systems thinking tools are integrated into NI peacebuilding strategies. Andrew's research on engagement/negotiations with "pro-state" paramilitaries in Colombia has informed approaches in other cases.
Research students
| PhD Title | Explaining Participation in Insurgency in Balochistan, Pakistan: Trajectories and Patterns of Radicalization |
| Name | Tufail Baloch |
| Years of Study | 09/2019 - 06/2025 |
| PhD Title | From Control to Conflict: Explaining Change in State-Militia Relationships during Armed Conflict and Civil War |
| Name | Dale Pankhurst |
| Years of Study | 09/2020-01/2025 |
| Country | NINEDTP ESRC Studentship Award, NI |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Framing reality, Choosing the Tactic: the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine during the Second Intifada (2000-2005) |
| Name | Antonella Acinapura |
| Years of Study | 11/09/2017 - 31/06/2021 |
| Current Position | Post-Doc Oxford University |
| PhD Title | COIN Through the Eyes of Bourdieu: American Legitimation Practices in Iraq 2007 -2009 |
| Name | Alexander Brammer |
| Years of Study | Sept 2016 - June 2020 |
| Current Position | U.S. Army |
| PhD Title | Multinational Corporations: Friends or foes of peace? Multinational Corporations and state capture in Colombia |
| Name | Fabian Espejo Fandino |
| Years of Study | 11/09/2015 - 05/07/2016, Colciencias (Colombia) Studentship Award |
| Current Position | United Nations anti-corruption unit Colombia |