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Our disciplinary expertise covers an array of specialisms.

Timofey Agarin
Dr Timofey Agarin

Dr Timofey Agarin is interested in relationships between the state and society, interrelations between the majority and the minority, issues relating to non-discrimination in the wider Europe and the impact of European integration broadly conceived on societal change and dynamics in political institutions. 

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Stefan Andreasson
Dr Stefan Andreasson

Dr Andreasson’s research is comparative politics, southern African politics, international political economy and history of political thought, focussing on the postcolonial world with an increasing emphasis on the United States. He is researching energy transitions and the future of fossil fuels, including sub-Saharan Africa's energy markets and the role of oil companies. 

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John Barry
Professor John Barry

Professor John Barry's research interests are in green moral and political theory, particularly green republicanism; heterodox, green and post-growth political economy; the politics and political economy of sustainability transitions; the politics of climate breakdown and the political economy of low carbon energy transitions.

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Mike Bourne
Dr Michael Bourne

Dr Mike Bourne’s research focuses on a wide range of security issues. He is interested in critical security theories, and the relations of materiality, technology, and violence. His work has engaged issues of arms control (from small arms to nuclear weapons), illicit trafficking, border control, and technology development.

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Keith Breen
Dr Keith Breen

Dr Keith Breen’s research areas are political and social theory, his focus being questions of political ethics and philosophies of work and economic organization.

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Shane Brighton
Dr Shane Brighton

Dr Shane Brighton researches the field of relations between armed conflict, identity and society. He has written on the philosophy and sociology of war, terrorism and counterterrorism and contemporary strategic debates. This work has particular relevance for understanding how societal dynamics relate to armed forces and foreign, defence and security policy.

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Professor John Coakley

John Coakley is Distinguished International Professor at Queen's University Belfast.  He specialises in the study of Irish politics, comparative politics and ethnic conflict. 

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Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana
Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana

Dr Maria Deiana's research deploys feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, security.  Her monograph titled 'Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia & Herzegovina' was published by Palgrave in 2018. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Gender in Politics.

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Dr Ralph Dietl

Dr Ralph Dietl publishes and teaches on International History and International Security. The core focus of his research is on European defence, the transatlantic defence relationship and nuclear arms control.

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Richard English
Professor Richard English

Professor Richard English's research focuses on the politics and history of nationalism, political violence, and terrorism, with a particular focus on Ireland and Britain.

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Elodie Fabis
Dr Elodie Fabre

Dr Elodie Fabre’s research focuses on the relationship between political parties, territorial politics and citizen engagement. Her project on citizen engagement and regional democracy explores whether regionalism has provided an opportunity to develop new forms of citizen engagement. 

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Dr Clara Fischer
Dr Clara Fischer

Dr Clara Fischer is an Illuminate Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. She works in the areas of social and political theory, feminist theory, and gender politics, and has particular research interests in feminist-pragmatism, theories of emotion/affect, embodiment and shame, institutionalisation and containment, gender and austerity, and Irish feminisms.

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John Garry
Professor John Garry

Professor John Garry’s research focuses on understanding citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour. He examines elections, referendums and also deliberative mini-publics.

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Viviane Gravey
Dr Viviane Gravey

Dr Viviane Gravey's research focuses on the relationship between policy change and shocks to policy-making systems.  This is reflected in two main areas of research. First, environmental policy dismantling in the European Union and its links to further European (dis)integration. 

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Dr Jamie Hagen

Dr Jamie Hagen's research is at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory.  She researches LGBTQ inclusion in Women, Peace and Security practices as well as queer analysis of security studies more broadly. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Gender in Politics.

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Heather Johnson
Dr Heather Johnson

Dr Heather Johnson’s research focuses on irregular migration and asylum seekers, border security, and the practices of resistance, solidarity and protest of non-citizens. She is interested in developing new understandings of mobility and non-citizenship, and particularly in new methods for engaging with these issues.

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Dr Corina Lacatus
Dr Corina Lacatus

Dr Corina Lacatus is a Hillary Clinton Fellow. Her research explores the influence that international organisations like the EU and UN have on domestic politics and societies. Her research has explored these dynamics in different areas of policy-making and practice – migration governance, public health, crisis management, and human rights.

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Dr Sohyun Zoe Lee
Dr Sohyun Zoe Lee

Dr Sohyun Zoe Lee’s research interests are in international political economy, international trade, regionalism, and free trade agreements (FTAs), with a particular focus on Northeast Asia.

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Professor Debbie Lisle

Professor Debbie Lisle’s research in critical International Relations and International Political Sociology explores issues of difference, mobility, security, travel, visuality, governmentality, biopolitics, materiality, technology, borders, practice and power. 

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Muiris MacCarthaigh
Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh

Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh's current research interests relate to the politics and practice of state retrenchment and administrative reform, issues with which he is involved in a number of international research networks, and with a particular focus on the Irish case.

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Cillian McBride
Dr Cillian McBride

Dr Cillian McBride works on the ethics and politics of recognition and on republican political theory. His interest in recognition theory encompasses questions of equality, toleration and freedom, while his work on republican freedom draws on work in the history of political thought and the critical theory tradition as well as on Pettit’s work on freedom as non-domination.

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Cathal McCall
Professor Cathal McCall

Cathal McCall is Professor of European Politics and Borders. He has published widely on the theme of European Union cross-border cooperation and conflict transformation. Currently, he has a specific interest in bordering, debordering and rebordering on the island of Ireland.

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Lee McGowan
Professor Lee McGowan

Professor Lee McGowan’s research focuses on European Politics. He is particularly interested in the structures of EU governance with special reference to European competition policy; the relationship between the UK and the EU; the theme of far right and populist politics and political violence.

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Peter McLaughlin
Dr Peter McLoughlin

Dr Peter McLoughlin works in the broad field of contemporary political history in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the Northern Ireland problem and peace process. 

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Dr Susan McManus

Dr Susan McManus is a political theorist with an interest in utopian political thought, anti-humanist critiques of cosmopolitanism and the politics of resistance in the wider context of modern political thought and post-structuralism.

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Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards
Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards

Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards research focuses on the Middle East and the challenges of political Islam and security sector governance in conflict and conflict transitions.

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Alister Miskimmon
Professor Alister Miskimmon

Professor Alister Miskimmon's research interests are primarily in the areas of strategic narratives, German, European and global security issues and European integration.

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Margaret O'Callaghan
Dr Margaret O'Callaghan

Dr Margaret O'Callaghan works on cultural identity in the Irish Free state; crime, nationality and the law in Victorian Ireland; the high politics of Britain in Ireland since 1880; Irish political thought; women in independent Ireland; Roger Casement; genealogies of partition ; the politics of commemoration; the ‘pre-Troubles’ Troubles.

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Professor Brendan O'Leary

Brendan O'Leary is Distinguished International Professor at Queen's University Belfast and Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009–10 he was the second Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing in the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit of the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations.

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David Phinnemore
Professor David Phinnemore

Professor David Phinnemore’s research interests are focused on European integration and cover in particular processes of EU treaty reform and their impact on the EU, the political dynamics underpinning EU enlargement and the EU’s relations with European non-member states. 

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Jamie Pow
Dr Jamie Pow

Dr Jamie Pow's research focuses on the way citizens interact with democratic decision-making, including through elections, mini-publics and referendums.  He has a particular interest in the politics of Northern Ireland and recent projects have explored public opinion towards Brexit. 

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Chris Raymond
Dr Chris Raymond

Dr Chris Raymond’s research examines the social bases of electoral and parliamentary politics. Most of this research examines the impact of religion, class, and ethnicity on party systems and voting behaviour. Additionally, Dr Raymond researches parliamentary politics, including voting patterns, committee assignments, and legislative careers.

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Francine Rossone de Paula
Dr Francine Rossone de Paula

Dr Francine Rossone De Paula’s research is in critical IR theory, international political sociology, feminist and critical geopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial studies. She is interested in questions about status, global inequalities, the distribution and impact of norms and subjectivities in inter(national) politics and narratives from/about Brazil and the Global South.

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Andrew Thomson
Dr Andrew Thomson

Dr Andrew Thomson’s research interests lie in the effects of pro-government militias on the dynamics of violence in civil war and on the prospects for conflict transformation and peace.

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Graham Walker
Professor Graham Walker

Professor Graham Walker’s research and teaching is focused on the political history of the UK and Ireland, particularly Scotland and Northern Ireland. He works on the politics of the constitutional question and devolution, and matters of class, religion, ethnicity, and identity. He also pursues research in the area of the history and politics of sport.

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Chenchen Zhang
Dr Chenchen Zhang

Dr Chenchen Zhang’s research interests lie broadly within social and political theory, political geography, and international relations. Her publications have been focused on citizenship theory, migration and border politics, human rights, and more recently on popular geopolitics and the global influence of “new right” ideas. Her regional expertise is Europe and China. 

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Research Fellows

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Dr Drew Mikhael

Research Fellow

Project: Exclusion amid Inclusion

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Dr Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill

Research Fellow

Project: PACT (Peace And Conflict Transformation) 

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Dr Colin Shaw

Research Assistant

Project: International Political Sociology

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Dr Amanda Slevin

PCAN Policy Fellow

Project: Belfast Climate Commission, Community Climate Action Working Group. 

 

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