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DrNiallÓDochartaigh+353857665742

Niall.ODochartaigh@nuigalway.ie

CurrentPosition

Senior lecturer, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland (since 2014; appointed Junior lecturer 1997; promoted to College Lecturer 2002)

PreviousAppointments

Research Officer, INCORE, International Conflict Research Centre, United Nations University and University of Ulster, Derry, N. Ireland

1994-97

Tutor in Dept. of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast 1990-92

Tutor in Dept. of History, University College Galway 1988-89

Education

PhD in Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. Thesis title: The Development of a Political Framework for Extended Conflict in Northern Ireland: A case study of Derry, 1968-72. Supervisor: Prof Paul Bew

1990-94

Research MA in History, University College Galway (1st Class). Thesis Title: Before the Troubles: Derry in the 1960s. Supervisor: Prof Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

1987-89

BAHistoryandSociology/Politics,UniversityCollegeGalway(2.1) 1984-87

Awards

Visiting Research Fellowship, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy 2016

President’s Award for Teaching Excellence, NUI Galway 2015

SSRC (Social Science Research Council, New York) Fellowship for two month collegium on 'Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security' at the University of California, Berkeley

2001

ACUNS/ASIL (Academic Council on the United Nations System/American Society of International Law) Scholarship for summer workshop on ‘The Evolving nature of Sovereignty and the Future of Global Security’. The Hague.

1995

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for two month 1994-95

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research visit to Berlin TSB travel scholarship, Queen's University, Belfast, for research in the United States on Irish-American politics.

1993

Postgraduate research fellowship in the Department of History, University College Galway.

1987-89

AcademicLeadership

Co-Director, Divided Societies Course, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik Since2015

Research Committee Chair, School of Political Science and Sociology Since2014

Member of the Executive Committee, School of Political Science and Sociology

Since2014

Founder and Convener of the Standing Group on Political Violence of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)

Since2011

Founder and Convener of the specialist group on Peace and Conflict of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI)

Since2008

Leader of the interdisciplinary Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute (NUIG)

Since2011

Leader of the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster, School of Political Science and Sociology (NUIG).

2010-2015

Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence, NUI Galway

2008-2011

ExternalAffiliations

Visiting Research Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Social Research Nov-Dec2016

Visiting Research Fellow ,Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University, Belfast

2016-17

Visiting Research Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy May-Jun2016

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for International Borders Research, Queen’s University, Belfast

2011-12

Visiting Fellow, Dept of Political Studies, University of Auckland Jan-Apr2010

Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago

Feb-Mar2010

Research Affiliate, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago

Since2010

Visiting Scholar, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles Jan-July2003

Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Studies, University of California, June-July2001

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Berkeley

ProfessionalDevelopment

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, NUI Galway

2012-13

Diploma in German, NUI Galway 2011-12

Diploma in Irish, National University of Ireland, Galway 2000-02

Publications

Books:Single-Authored

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) Internet Research Skills, 3rd edn. London: Sage. 224 pp. [Chinese language edition published 2015: Peking University Press].

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) Internet Research Skills, 2nd edn. London: Sage. 184 pp. [Chinese language edition published 2012: Taipei: Weber/Sage].

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2005) From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles, expanded 2nd edn. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 332 pp.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) The Internet Research Handbook: a practical guide for students and researchers in the Social Sciences. London: Sage. 274 pp.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1997) From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles, 1st edn. Cork: Cork University Press. 364 pp.

Books:Edited

ÓDochartaigh,Niall,Hayward,Katy&Meehan,Elizabeth(eds)(2017)DynamicsofPoliticalChangeinIreland:MakingandBreakingaDividedIsland.London:Routledge[inpress]

Bosi, Lorenzo, Niall Ó Dochartaigh & Daniela Pisoiu (eds) (2015) Political Violence in Context: Time, Space and Milieu. Colchester: ECPR Press.

JournalSpecialissues

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Hayward, Katy (eds) (2013) ‘Nationalism, Territory and Organized Violence’. Special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19 (1).

Journalarticles

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2015) ‘The Longest Negotiation: British Policy, IRA Strategy and the Making of the Northern Ireland Peace Settlement’. Political Studies 63 (1).

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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Svensson, Isak. (2013) ‘The Exit Option: Mediation and the Termination of Negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict’. International Journal of Conflict Management 24 (1).

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2013) ‘Bounded by Violence: institutionalizing local territories in the North of Ireland’. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19 (1) 119-139.

Hayward, Katy and Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2013) ‘Nationalism, Territory and Organized Violence: Introduction to the special issue’. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19 (1) 1-11.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2013) ‘Images from the inside: Michael Rodgers’ photographs of the civil rights campaign and the birth of the Troubles in Derry’ Field Day Review 9, pp.50-77.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) ‘Republicanism domesticated?’ Political Quarterly 83 (2) 256-264.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Together in the Middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. Journal of Peace Research 48 (6) 767-780.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers'. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland’. Irish Political Studies. 26 (3) 313-328.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘IRA Ceasefire 1975: a missed opportunity for peace?’ Field Day Review 7. 50-77.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Bosi, Lorenzo (2010) ‘Territoriality and Mobilization: the Civil Rights Campaign in Northern Ireland’. Mobilization, 15 (4) 405-424.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?’ Contemporary British History. 24 (1) 89-108.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) ‘Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience’. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16 (1), 102-127.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) ‘Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface’. Political Geography, 26 (4) 474-91.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1995) “ ‘Sure it’s hard to keep up with the splits here’: Irish-American responses to the outbreak of conflict in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974”. Irish Political Studies, 10, 138-60.

Bookchapters

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2017) ‘What did the Civil Rights Movement Want? Changing goals and underlying continuities in the transition from protest to violence’. In Bosi, L. & De Fazio, G. (eds). The Troubles: Northern Ireland and Social Movements Theories. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press [in press].

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2017) ‘State, Nation, Island: The Politics of Territory in Ireland’. In Ó Dochartaigh, N., Hayward, K. and Meehan, E. (eds) Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island. London: Routledge [in press]

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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall, Hayward, Katy & Meehan, Elizabeth (2017) Introduction. In Ó Dochartaigh, N., Hayward, K. and Meehan, E. (eds) Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island. London: Routledge [in press]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2016) ‘Northern Ireland since 1920’. In Richard Bourke and Ian McBride (eds) The Princeton History of Modern Ireland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp.141-67.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2015) ‘‘TerritorialConflicts’.InJamesD.Wright(editor-in-chief)InternationalEncyclopediaoftheSocialandBehavioralSciences,2ndedition,Vol.24.Oxford:Elsevier,pp.214–220.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2015) ‘Spatial Contexts for Political Violence’. In Bosi, Ó Dochartaigh & Pisoiu (eds) Political Violence in Context: Time, Space and Milieu. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp.115-124.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2015) ‘Radical Milieu and Mass Mobilisation in the Northern Ireland Conflict’. In Bosi, Ó Dochartaigh & Pisoiu (eds) Political Violence in Context: Time, Space and Milieu. Colchester: ECPR Press, pp.237-52.

Bosi, Lorenzo, Niall Ó Dochartaigh & Daniela Pisoiu (2015) ‘Contextualizing Political Violence’. In Bosi, Ó Dochartaigh & Pisoiu (eds) Political Violence in Context: Time, Space and Milieu. Colchester: ECPR Press

Maleševic, Siniša and Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2014) ‘Sociological Approaches’. In Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen (eds) Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars. London: Routledge, pp.54-66.

Maleševic, Siniša and Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ’Secession and Political Violence’. In Sasa Pavkovic and Peter Radan (eds) Research Companion on Secession. Ashgate.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ’Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland’. In Adrian Guelke (ed.) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Searching the Keyword Search Engines’. In Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students. Sage; Amazon. 216-236. [Reprinted from Internet Research Skills]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Introduction: Why not just search Google’’. In Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students. Sage; Amazon. 214-215. [Reprinted from Internet Research Skills]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) ’Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries: Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study’. In Juergen Barkhoff and Helmut Eberhart (eds) Networks across borders and frontiers. Grazer Beiträge zur Europäischen Ethnologie 14. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 195-214.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) ‘The Contact: understanding a communication channel between the British government and the IRA’. In Joseph J. Popiolkowski and Nicholas J. Cull (eds) Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: Track Two to Peace? . Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 57-72.

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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2008) ‘Northern Ireland’. In Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth (eds) 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77, 81-203. New York; London: Palgrave.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1999) ‘The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s’ in Gerard O’Brien (ed.) Derry and Londonderry: History and Society. Dublin: Geography Publications, 625-646.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1998) ‘The Role of Government’. In Robinson, G., Gray, A. & Heenan, D. (eds) Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Seventh Report. Aldershot: Ashgate, 57-74.

Otheracademicpublications

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Bloody Sunday: cock-up or conspiracy? History Ireland 18 (5), pp.40-43.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Northern Ireland’. In The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) Commentary on William Hazleton’s ‘Devolution and the diffusion of power: the internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement’ . In Conor McGrath and Eoin O’Malley, (eds) Irish Political Studies Reader: key contributions, pp.343-347. London: Routledge.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2003) ‘The British Army in Northern Ireland’. Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 124.

Film

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Brendan Duddy interviews’. Production, research and interviewing for ten hours of filmed interviews deposited with the Duddy papers in the NUI Galway archive.

OnlineDataServices/Websites

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2013- ongoing) Contributing co-editor of polviolence.net, blog of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) The Brendan Duddy Archive <http://archives.library.nuigalway.ie/duddy/>. Document selection and commentary for this online exhibition of the Hardiman Library at NUI Galway.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2004-05) A Guide to Ulster Loyalism and Unionism Online. An associated site hosted by CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) <http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/loy/>

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1994-97) Conflict Data Service, INCORE (United Nations University and the University of Ulster) <http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk>. Principal author, content-developer and content-editor of this international academic service on ethnic conflict.

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Reviews

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2016) Review of Hunger Strike: Margaret Thatcher's Battle with the IRA, 1980-81. By Thomas Hennessey. English Historical Review [in press].

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2014) Review of Belfast and Derry in Revolt: A new History of the start of the Troubles. By Simon Prince and Geoffrey Warner (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012). Irish Political Studies.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2013) Review of ‘Building Peace in Northern Ireland’. Edited by Maria Power (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011). Irish Political Studies 28 (1).

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) Review of ‘The Destructors: the story of Northern Ireland’s Lost Peace Process. By Michael Kerr. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2011). Irish Historical Studies.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) Review of Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland by Stacie E. Goddard. Ethnopolitics, 10 (1) 151 – 152.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) Review of Northern Ireland’s ’68: Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the Troubles by Simon Prince. Irish Political Studies, 24 (3) 403-4.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) Reviewed for Irish Political Studies 22 (1) 121-2. Hayes, Patrick and Campbell, Jim, Bloody Sunday: Trauma, Pain and Politics. Pluto, 2005.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2006) Reviewed for Ethnopolitics 5 (2) 206-208. Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzer (eds) Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2003) Reviewed for Irish Political Studies, 18 (2) 100-101: Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston, Martin McGuinness: From Guns to Government. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2001.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) Reviewed for the Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 2 (2), 99-100: Brendan O’Leary, Ian S. Lustick, Thomas Callaghy (eds), Right-sizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) Reviewed for West European Politics, 24 (1), 241-242. Pippa Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and The Internet Worldwide. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) Reviewed for the Global Review of Ethnopolitics. Wayne A.Selcher, The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources. <http://www.etown.edu/vl>

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) Reviewed for the Irish Journal of Sociology. Colin Coulter. Contemporary Northern Irish Society: An introduction. London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto 1999.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2001) Reviewed for West European Politics. Jens Hoff, Ivan Horrocks and Pieter Tops (eds) Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically mediated innovations in political practice in Western Europe. London: Routledge, 2000.

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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1998) Reviewed for The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest . Berch Berberoglu (ed.) The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the 20th Century. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1998) Reviewed for The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest (1998) Jeroen Doomernik, Going West: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Berlin since 1990. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1998) Reviewed for The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest. Michael A. Gomez, Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in The Colonial and Antebellum South . UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 1998.

Journalism

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2015) ‘”A Few Lousy Hours”: Time Pressure in the 1980 Hunger Strike’. Irish Times Online, 18 Dec.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) ‘Negotiating the 1981 Hunger Strike’. Sunday Business Post, 1 Jan.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Bloody Sunday: no plan, no conspiracy?’ Derry Journal, 26 June.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Saville missed the failures of leadership’. Sunday Business Post, 20 June.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Politics of Bloody Sunday left untold’. The Guardian. 16 June.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2004) ‘Bloody Sunday: it could all have turned out differently’, The Irish Times, November 20, p.13.

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) ‘War within war revealed in Bloody Sunday inquiry‘, The Sunday Business Post, November 24, p.15.

Onlinejournalismandessays

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2016) ‘Turning to the Past: Global Contexts for the 1916 Commemorations’. Alternative 1916: Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, May 2016. http://irishhistoriansinbritain.org/?p=296

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2014) ‘Ukraine: typologies of violence and the struggle for political advantage’. ECPR Political Violence Blog. https://polviolence.net/2014/05/15/ukraine-typologies-of-violence-and-the-struggle-for-political-advantage/

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) ‘Political violence and fractured territoriality in Syria and Libya’. ECPR Political Violence Blog. https://polviolence.net/2012/11/29/political-violence-and-fractured-territoriality-in-syria-and-libya/

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Essay: Bloody Sunday: a calculated confrontation? Slugger O'Toole. 15 June, 2010. http://sluggerotoole.com/2010/06/15/bloody-sunday-a-calculated-confrontation/

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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Derry essays: A City on the Border’ Slugger O'Toole. 23 April, 2010. http://sluggerotoole.com/2010/04/23/derry-essays-a-city-on-the-border/

O Dochartaigh Niall (2003) ‘British Invasion: What Belfast can teach our allies about occupying Basra’. The American Prospect Online, 10 April, 2003. http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/04/o_dochartaigh-ni-04-10.html

Conference,WorkshopandSectionOrganization

Brexit and the Border: Managing the UK/Ireland impact: A one-day forum and roundtable in Belfast co-organized with Katy Hayward (QUB). It included civil servants from the Republic and the North, representatives from several cross-border organisations and leading international scholars who work on the EU and borders.

Oct 2016

Section on Political Violence at the ECPR General Conference, Prague: co-organized with Lorenzo Bosi (Scuola Normale Superiore). Section included twelve panels and more than forty papers.

Sept2016

Annual conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. Co-organized with Brendan Flynn and Stacey Scriver in Galway. It included almost a hundred papers. Guest speakers included Prof Donatella della Porta of the EUI and Prof Steve Smith, President of APSA

Oct2014

Dealing with the Past: a one-day symposium on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland at King’s College London, co-organized with Prof. Ian McBride (KCL).

June2014

Section on Political Violence at the ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux: co-organized with Dr Lorenzo Bosi (EUI). Section included nine panels and more than thirty papers.

Sept2013

Workshop on Typologies of Political Violence, European University Institute, Florence. Co-organizer with Dr Lorenzo Bosi (EUI). Financially supported by the Irish Research Council and the ECPR and organized in association with COSMOS this workshop brought together senior and junior scholars of political violence from across Europe and the US. Speakers included Professors Donatella della Porta, Stathis Kalyvas and Elisabeth Wood and others based in Spain, the UK and Italy.

May2013

The Agreement, 15 Years On: A Symposium, University of Ulster. Co-organiser with Dr Cathy Gormley-Heenan (UU) and Dr Cillian McGrattan (Swansea). A joint event of the University of Ulster, NUI Galway and the Political Studies association of Ireland, this symposium included participants from academia, the media, the civil service and civil society to discuss the making and the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

April2013

Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective, National University of May2012

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Ireland Galway. Co-organiser with Prof. Sinisa Malesevic (UCD). International speakers included Professors Stathis Kalyvas, Brendan O’Leary, Martin Shaw and speakers from Uppsala and Birkbeck.

Talking Peace: a seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway. Co-organiser with Prof. Ian McBride (KCL). Speakers included former senior civil servants, intermediaries and academics from US, British, Irish and Northern Irish universities.

May2012

Negotiating Peace Symposium, National University of Ireland Galway. Organised in association with the Hardiman Library and the President’s Office at NUIG. Speakers included former senior British and Irish civil servants and academics. Organised in association with the launch of the Brendan Duddy archive.

Nov2011

Peace and Conflict Research in Ireland, workshop at NUI Galway. Co-organiser with Dr Sinisa Malesevic (NUIG). This workshop brought together key academics involved in peace and conflict research from almost all Irish universities, on both sides of the border, including UU, QUB, UCD, DCU, TCD, UL and NUIG to share knowledge and advance cooperation.

Aug2011

Nations, States and Conflict, conference at NUI Galway. Co-organiser with Dr Sinisa Malesevic (NUIG). Speakers included Professors John Breuilly, Jonathan Hearne, Adrian Guelke, Jennifer Todd and speakers from LSE and Bristol.

AUG2011

Reassessing the Provisionals, annual London Irish Studies Symposium, King’s College, London. Co-organiser with Dr Ian McBride (KCL). Included speakers from QUB, Oxford, Liverpool and the UK National Archives.

June2011

Nationalism and Organised Violence, a conference at NUI Galway of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence in association with the Political Studies Association of Ireland specialist group on Peace and Conflict. Co-organiser with Dr Katy Hayward (QUB). Speakers from EUI Florence, Oxford, QUB, QMUL, Sheffield and UCD.

SEPT2010

An Irish Model for Peace? A conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland specialist group on Peace and Conflict. Co-organiser with Dr Katy Hayward (QUB) and Dr Gillian Wylie (TCD). Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. Included thirty speakers from a wide range of Irish, British and European universities.

MAY2009

Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference on ‘The Politics of Peace and Conflict’ at NUI Galway. Sole organiser. The conference programme included more than eighty presenters and guest speakers and was one of the largest PSAI conferences to date. I also secured funding from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the NUI Galway

OCT2008

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millennium fund to bring prominent keynote speakers including Prof. Brendan O’Leary and former Northern Ireland Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan, and organized a roundtable discussion on citation metrics.

Workshop on Internet Archiving. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Organisor of this workshop brought together representatives from the National Archives, the National Library, UCD, QUB, UU, NUIG, DERI, the British Library and UCLA to discuss research collaboration. A key outcome was a collaborative research proposal on online archiving which I submitted to the IRCHSS as prospective PI.

AUG2006

Online Political Activism: Mobilizing and Organizing in the Age of the Internet. Organiser of this conference at USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles which brought together prominent speakers from UCLA, UC Riverside, University of Amsterdam and USC.

AUGUST2003

FISCE 2, the second international conference on The Future of Internet Services on Conflict and Ethnicity INCORE, Derry, N. Ireland. A follow up conference building on the enthusiasm generated by FISCE 1. This also included representatives from key conflict and peace research institutes.

JULY1997

FISCE 1 the first international conference on The Future of Internet Services on Conflict and Ethnicity INCORE, Derry, N. Ireland.

Organizer of this groundbreaking conference that brought together representatives from key conflict and peace research institutes across Western Europe and North America.

NOV1996

Researchfunding

IRC Postdoctoral Research Project: Memory beyond borders: dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict in the Republic of Ireland, 1969 to 2016. Mentor to Dr Thomas Leahy (IRC). €91,630.

2016-18

PI on ‘Political Violence: Building a New International Network. Irish Research Council’ (IRC) €5,920

2012-13

AI and proposal co-author on ‘The Mediation of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States’ (IRCHSS), €49,000.

2011-12

NUI Galway Director for ‘Building Communication Processes Among Divided Societies’: faculty exchange programme with U. Missouri and U. Ulster. Cultural Affairs Bureau, US Dept. of State, $120,000.

1999-2002

MinorExternalResearchGrants

Workshop on Typologies of Political Violence at the EUI ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) £500

2013

Symposium on the Good Friday Agreement PSAI (Political Studies 2013

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Association of Ireland) €350 Political Violence Blog: polviolence.net, ECPR£500 2012

Travel Support Scheme, Enterprise Ireland, €650 2012

Conference on Nationalism and Organised Violence at NUIG, PSAI, €1,000

2010

‘An Irish Model for Peace?’ conference, PSAI, €1,000 2009

Peace and Conflict section at the PSAI annual conference, Dept of Foreign Affairs Conflict resolution unit, €3,500

2009

Recentfundingapplications(since2013)

Participant in ‘iSPEAK DV’, an application for Horizon 2020 funding for Domestic Violence Research under the Secure Societies Programme. Outcome pending.

2016

PI on application for ‘Technologies of Peace: the use of ICT in conflict prevention, peacebuilding and peace negotiations’, an application with Co-PI Dr. John Breslin of Insight for IRC funding of ca. 195,000

2015

Participant in ‘Narratopia: Digital Age Narrative Trajectories’, an application for Horizon 2020 funding under ICT-10a-2105

2015

Participant in ‘War Stories: the cultural heritage of war in contemporary Europe’, an application for Horizon 2020 funding under REFLECTIVE-5-2015.

2015

PI on ‘Technologies of Negotiation: information and communication technologies in the negotiated settlement of violent conflict’. An application for IRC funding of ca. 330,000. In collaboration with colleagues in UCD, QUB, Manchester and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (NUIG). Shortlisted for funding and narrowly missed out.

2013

Reviewing

Reader of book proposals for Oxford University Press, Sage, Palgrave, Bloomsbury Academic, University of Notre Dame Press, Manchester University Press, West Virginia University Press

Reviewer for Journal of Peace Research; Parliamentary Affairs; Terrorism and Political Violence; Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; Political Studies; Mobilization; British Journal of Politics and international Relations; Journal of Comparative Politics; International Journal of Conflict Management; Nations and Nationalism; Civil Wars; Contemporary British History; Political Geography; Ethnopolitics; Twentieth Century British History; Social Science History; The Sixties; Irish Political Studies; Irish Historical Studies; Partecipazione e Conflitto

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Member of the review panel for Nigel Fielding, Grant Blank, Ray Lee (eds) (2008) The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. London; Los Angeles, Sage. Reviewer for Peace Accords Matrix (PAM), Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the University of Notre Dame (2010).

Teaching

Political Sociology. Module leader and instructor. Second year BA elective module. Enrolment: 125 students. Topics include theories of modernity, the state, organized violence, social movements, political violence, bureaucracy and globalization.

2011-present

Conflict and Territory. Module leader and instructor. Final year BA module. Enrolment is limited to twenty students, half of whom are visiting students. Topics: Theories of territoriality, territory and the nation, territory and the state, case-studies of Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland and of a range of contemporary conflicts.

2011–present

Politics of Peace and Conflict. Module leader and instructor. Final year BA module. Enrolment is limited to twenty students, half of whom are visiting students. Topics: Theories of peace and conflict, mediation and negotiation, international intervention, peacekeeping.

2010–present

Introduction to Politics and Society: Course Team Member. First year BA core module. More than 650 students. Every lecture must be delivered twice. I cover Theories of Power, the state and government structures.

2008–present

2BA SP234 International relations: Module leader and instructor Second year BA elective module. Enrolment: 135 students.

2015-16

2008-09

IS107 Divided Ireland: Politics and Society since 1921: I teach on the politics of conflict in Northern Ireland in this module on the MA in Irish Studies. I also coordinate the Soc and Pol contribution to this module.

1997-present

SP1100 Practising Sociology and Politics: 1st year BA seminars. 16 students

2015-present

SP159 Problems in Sociology and Politics: First year seminars through the medium of Irish.

1997-2015

Second year General Seminar: A seminar group with around 15 students supporting the second year modules in Sociology and Politics. I deliver it through the medium of Irish when there is demand.

1997- 2015

3BA SP448 Ethnic Conflict and Territory A small third year option course in which half of the twenty students were visitors

1997-2011

3BA SP479 Politics and the Internet: A small third year option course in which half of the twenty students were visitors

1997-2010

3BA SP621 Tuaisceart Éireann: Polaitíocht na Coinbhleachta Northern Ireland: the politics of conflict, a small third year option course taught through the medium of Irish

2002-04

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PG103 Internet Research Skills, Certificate in Postgraduate Development (Arts) An evening course for M.Litt and PhD students from across the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. Attracted 30 students.

2007-09

Power, Conflict and Ideologies, Module on the structured PhD programme

2011-12

Internet Research Skills lectures in methods courses for the MA in Community Development / Masters in Social Work, MA Pleanáil Teanga (through the medium of Irish) / MA Módhanna Teagaisc (through the medium of Irish)

2006-2012

Doctoralsupervision

Completed

Shadi Abu-Ayyas (2011-2016) The Palestine Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the UK: Mediating and Framing Palestine Online. Jointly with the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. [Viva completed June 2016–PhD awarded with minor revisions].

Deirdre McHugh (2006-2010) Reporting Political Violence: RTÉ Television News and the Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1968-72 (Awarded Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship) Elizabeth Ball (2005-2009) Truth, Power and Bloody Sunday: A study of the complementary and competing representations of the day in Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, Jimmy McGovern's Sunday and the Saville Inquiry (Awarded Arts Faculty fellowship) Paul Murray (1999-2003) Contested Borders and Minority Rights: The Partition of Ireland in Comparative Perspective (Awarded Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship). The revised thesis was published as a book by UCD press. Current Anna Tulin-Brett(Since2016)FromPeaceprovisionstoIntegrationPolicies.GalwayScholarship2016-20

Gary Hussey (Since 2015) Territory and Conflict. Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship 2016-19. Giada Lagana (Since 2013) The role of the European Union in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Galway Scholarship 2013-17. Michael Martin (Since 2011) Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland. Hardiman Scholarship 2011-15. Maciej Cuprys (Since 2016. Part-time) Polish and Ukrainian nationalists define the nation: contrasting attitudes to identity, belonging and ethnicity in Ukrainian and Polish nationalist thought in the 20th century. Carmel Martyn (Since 2015. Part-time) PolicingCivilRightsProtests:AComparativeAnalysisoftheNorthernIrelandandAmericanDeepSouthCivilRightsDemonstrations.1960-1969Peter Doherty (Since 2015. Part-time) The Politics of IRA Funerals from 1971 to 1993.

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Postdoctoralmentoring

Dr Thomas Leahy, Memory beyond borders: dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict in the Republic of Ireland, 1969 to 2016. Irish Research Council Postdoctoral fellow (2016-18) Dr Niall O Murchú, Settlers vs Metropole: The Weakness of the British State in Ireland and Palestine. Irish Research Council Postdoctoral fellow (2005-06)

ExternalExamination

PhD, King’s College London, Dept of History 2015

PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, School of History and Anthropology 2014

PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, School of Politics 2012

PhD, University of Ulster, School of Social Sciences 2011

PhD, Queen’s University Belfast, Institute of Irish studies 2011

MA, School of Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies, University of Otago 2010

PhD, University of Ulster, School of History and International affairs 2009

InternalPhDExamination

Chinatsu Hakamada, Scoil na Gaeilge (School of Irish) 2016

HughRowland,RoinnnaGaeilge(DeptofIrish)2014

ArbenQirezi,PoliticalScienceandSociology2014

CarolStaunton,PoliticalScienceandSociology2012(ChairofViva)

MembershipofPhDGraduateResearchCommittees

IamamemberofthenewlyestablishedGraduateResearchCommitteefortheSchoolofPoliticalScienceandSociology,responsiblesince2015forallnewPhDstudentsintheSchool.Ihaveserved,inaddition,onthefollowingGRCs:

MartinJavornicky,PoliticalScienceandSociology(2015-present)

AndrewForde,IrishCentreforHumanRights(2015-present)

HughRowland,RoinnnaGaeilge/DepartmentofIrish(2010-2014)

ArbenQirezi,PoliticalScienceandSociology(2010-2014)

PatrickMalone,PoliticalScienceandSociology(2012-2014)

MarjaAlmqvist,GlobalWomen’sStudiesProgram(2010-2012)

CliodhnaO’Keefe,GlobalWomen’sStudiesProgram(2010-2012)

MíceálCronin,PoliticalScienceandSociology(2011-present)

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SupervisionofMAminordissertations

Since 2011 I have supervised 14 MA Minor dissertations to completion in the Masters in Social Work,MAinIrishStudies,MA in Public Advocacy and Activism, MAinCultureandColonialismandMAinCommunityDevelopment

OliviaWilliams MastersinSocialWork 2015FergalKeane MAinIrishStudies 2015KevinGadsey MA in Public Advocacy and Activism 2014EmmaHenaghan, MastersinSocialWork 2013JonathanMcDonnell. MAinIrishStudies 2013E.C.Pollick MAinIrishStudies 2013CianMcBrien MAinIrishStudies 2013MatthewMoylan MACultureandColonialism 2012ColetteDuignan MastersinSocialWork 2012StephenKelly MACultureandColonialism 2012RonanBracken MAinIrishStudies 2011CarmelMartyn MAinIrishStudies 2011SharonCasey MastersinSocialWork 2011MichelleO’Mahoney MAinCommunityDevelopment 2011EiraFonParry MAinIrishStudies 2009AislingMcGettigan MAinIrishStudies 2009MeganRyan MAinIrishStudies 2008NigelConnor MAinCommunityDevelopment 2007HonorSheridan MAinCommunityDevelopment 2006FionnualaFoley MastersinFamilySupport 2005AoifeFarrell MAinIrishStudies 2005MaryKateCandon MAinCommunityDevelopment 2004RóisínCorry MAinIrishStudies 2002ChristopherColbert MAinIrishStudies 2002AlisonO’Neill MAinCommunityDevelopment 2001PadraigínNíGhráinne MAinCommunityDevelopment 2001SinéadHardiman MAinCommunityDevelopment 1998JeremyLeonard MAinCommunityDevelopment 1998

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Media

Frequent contributor to current affairs and news programmes on RTE One, the BBC World Service, BBC Northern Ireland, Channel 4, UTV Ireland, RTE Radio One, Dublin City FM, Galway Bay FM, Raidió na Life (Dublin’s Irish language radio station) and to documentaries screened on RTE, BBC1 and TG4.

Regular commentator on the politics of conflict, on Irish politics and on Northern Irish politics on TG4 (The national Irish-medium public TV station) and Raidio na Gaeltachta (The national Irish-medium public radio station). I have been part of the Raidio na Gaeltachta studio panel for the last two general elections.

PublicInterviewsandpanels

October 2016: ‘Can you keep a secret: family life with a secret peacemaker’. Public interview with four members of the family of intermediary Brendan Duddy. In association with the Hardiman Library, NUI Galway

July 2016: Chair of Q and A and panel discussion on the hunger strike documentary ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ with Fintan O’Toole, Danny Morrison and director Brendan Byrne at the Galway Film Fleadh April 2016: Public Interview with former hunger striker Laurence McKeown, NUI Galway.

PapersandPubliclectures(since2008only)

October 2016: ‘Citizenship on the Ethnic Frontier: nationality, migration and rights in Northern Ireland since 1920’. Enfranchising Ireland: Identity, Citizenship and State. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. [invited paper]

October 2016: ‘The Metaconflict’. Workshop on Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland. Hertford College, Oxford.

October 2016: ‘Power and Politics in the Bloody Sunday Inquiry’. Irish Society, History and Culture: 100 years after 1916. EUI/SNS/UniFi, Florence. [invited plenary] October 2016: ‘Armed activism as the enactment of a collective identity. the case of the Provisional IRA between 1969 and 1972’ (with Lorenzo Bosi). Irish Society, History and Culture: 100 years after 1916. EUI/SNS/UniFi, Florence. October 2016: ‘Why the IRA ended its campaign: a strategic-relational analysis ‘. PSAI Annual Conference, Belfast. October 2016: ‘Priorities for Ireland’. Roundtable on Brexit and the UK/Ireland Impact. PSAI Annual Conference, Belfast. October 2016: ‘Time and Emotion: the hunger strike as protest tactic’. Mitchell Institute, Queen’s University Belfast. [Invited Seminar].

September 2016: ‘Time and Emotion: the hunger strike as protest tactic’. Whitaker Institute Ideas Forum, NUI Galway.

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September 2016: ‘Territoriality and Political Violence’ (with Gary Hussey). ECPR General Conference, Prague.

June 2016: ‘Body and Clock: Time Pressure in Hunger Strike negotiations’. Rethinking the 1981 Long Kesh/ Maze Hunger Strike: 35 years on. University of Notre Dame London Campus [invited paper] Audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-203803712/dr-niall-o-dochartaigh-biological-versus-organisational-time-in-hunger-strike-negotiations

May 2016: ‘Negotiating the Irish Republican Hunger Strike of 1981’. European University Institute Florence [invited seminar]

May 2016: ‘Time and emotion: the hunger strike as protest tactic’. Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence [invited seminar]

April 2016: ‘Territories of Multiculturalism’. Is Multiculturalism Dead? 19th Divided Societies Course, Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik.

October 2015: ‘Organisational Foundations of Military Power: the Irish Republican Army and the Army of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia compared’ (with Siniša Malešević). PSAI Annual Conference, Cork. April 2015: ‘Civil War or War of Civilisations? Territorial perspectives on the causes of violent conflict’. The Clash of Civilisations in the 21st Century? IUC, Dubrovnik November 2014: ”Micro-mobilization into the Provisional IRA’ (with Lorenzo Bosi). International workshop on micro-level perspectives on political violence, EUI Florence. Joint workshop of COSMOS (EUI Centre for Research on Social Movements) and the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence.

October 2014: ‘Still a Country? Nation, State and Territory on the Island of Ireland’. PSAI Annual Conference, Galway.

September 2014: ‘Organisational foundations of military power: comparing the Irish Republican Army and the Army of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia’ (with Sinisa Malesevic), ECPR General Conference, Glasgow.

September 2014: ‘Reversing the mechanisms? A relational analysis of the termination of the IRA campaign’. ECPR General Conference, Glasgow.

June 2014: ‘a great disorderly Tangle of Lines’. Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland, London Irish Studies Seminar Symposium, King’s College London.

April 2014: ‘The Nation Online: Nations, Borders and New Technologies’. Digital Scholarship Seminar, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

March 2014: ‘Still a Country? Nation, State and Territory on the Island of Ireland’. Lifeworlds: Space, Place and Irish Culture Conference, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway.

February 2014: ‘Re-materialising conflict? Land, territory and power in a resource-constrained world’. Globaler Wandel und Macht: Offene Tagung des AK Umweltpolitik/Global Change [Global Change and Power: Conference of the Specialist Group on Environmental Politics and Global Change of the DVPW], Freie Universität Berlin (co-authored with Henrike Rau and Sinisa Malesevic).

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December 2013: ‘Violence and Territory in the North of Ireland’. Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel [Invited Seminar].

October 2013: ‘Five Propositions on Political Violence’. PSAI annual conference, TCD, Dublin. September 2013: ‘Rebels for Peace? Republican Agency in the Irish Peace Process’. ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux August 2013: ‘Tábhacht an Tuaiscirt do Phobal an Deiscirt’ (The importance of the North for people in the Republic of Ireland). Merriman summer school, Lisdoonvarna Co. Clare. [invited lecture]. May 2013: ‘Territorial Typologies of Political Violence’. Workshop on Typologies of Political Violence, European University Institute, Florence.

March 2013: ‘Withdrawal on the Table? Labour Government Policy on Northern Ireland, 1974-76′. The British Labour Party and Twentieth-Century Ireland conference, National University of Ireland Galway.

October 2012: ‘Anti-State Militants as Agents of Peace? Republican Agency in the Irish Peace Process’ [with Michael Martin]. PSAI annual conference, Derry.

May 2012, ‘Territoriality and Organised Violence’ Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective conference, National University of Ireland Galway.

May 2012 ‘The Longest Negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement’, Talking Peace Seminar, National University of Ireland Galway.

April 2012 ‘Back-channel communication in divided societies’. Divided Societies XV, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia [invited lecture].

March 2012 ‘The Longest Negotiation: British policy, IRA strategy and the making of the Northern Ireland peace settlement. QUB School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Social Divisions and Conflict Cluster seminar [invited paper].

December 2011 ‘ Ending the Northern Ireland Conflict: Back-channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast [invited paper].

November 2011: ‘Making Peace in Secret: Back-channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. University of Limerick Dept of Politics and Public Administration seminar [invited paper].

October 2011: ‘Trusting the enemy: the development of a negotiating relationship between the British Government and the IRA ‘. PSAI annual conference, UCD, Dublin.

October 2011: ‘ Republicanism domesticated? All-Ireland politics in an age of austerity’. Northern Ireland: Fragile Peace in an Age of Austerity, Birkbeck College, London [Invited paper].

August 2011: ‘ Outcomes of negotiated deradicalization in the Irish peace process’. European Consortium for Political Research general conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.

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August 2011: ‘The Nation Inside-Out’. Nations, States and Conflict conference, NUI Galway.

June 2011: ‘The Provisional IRA: a movement oriented to negotiation’. Reassessing the IRA, Annual London Irish Studies symposium, King’s College London.

May 2011: ‘Cities inside out: the externalization of cities in conflict’. Divided Cities conference, Queen’s University Belfast.

Apr. 2011: ‘Together in the middle: back-channel negotiation in the Irish peace process’. Political Studies Association UK annual conference, London.

Jan. 2011: ‘Assessing Saville’. Panel discussion at the Bloody Sunday Weekend, Derry [Invited].

Nov. 2010: ‘Making peace in secret: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy papers at NUI Galway’. NUI Galway Centre for Irish Studies public lecture.

October 2010: ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, DIT, Dublin

September 2010: ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Nationalism and Organised Violence Conference, NUI Galway.

July 2010: ‘IRA Ceasefire 1975: A missed opportunity for peace?’ Reassessing the 1970s. Centre for Contemporary British History, UCL, London.

June 2010: ‘Power, Rationality and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry’. Bloody Sunday Symposium. Dept of History, King’s College London [invited paper].

March 2010: ‘Through Secret Channels: Covert Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. Public talk, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand [invited lecture].

Mar 2010: ‘Truth, History and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry’. Public talk, Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand [invited lecture].

Mar 2010: ‘Making Peace in Secret’. Departmental seminar, Dept of Political Studies, University of Auckland.

Mar. 2010: ‘Truth, history and public inquiry’. Auckland Branch of Society for Legal and Social Philosophy [invited paper].

Nov. 2009: ‘Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?’ St Catherine’s College, Oxford [invited lecture].

Nov. 2009: ‘The Brendan Duddy papers’. Revisiting the Troubles: new research findings. Policy Exchange, London [invited paper].

Oct 2009: ‘Bloody Sunday and the Politics of the British Army’. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Liverpool Hope University.

June 2009: ‘Bloody Sunday: Design or Error?’ American Conference for Irish Studies, NUI Galway

May 2009: ‘Policing the uneven spaces of the ethnic frontier’ (QUB ) [invited paper].

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July 2008. Territoriality and the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland. BSA Theory Study Group Conference, ‘1968: Impact and Implications’. Birkbeck, U of London.

March 2008. New Technologies in a Divided City. Queen’s University, Belfast

[invited paper].

March 2008. Internet Research Strategies. School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work., Queen’s University, Belfast [invited paper].

January 2008 Understanding Bloody Sunday. Public talk at NUI, Galway, under the auspices of the Centre for Irish Studies.