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Prof John Garry (Lead)

Voting, elections, referendums, deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies.

 

Dr Jamie Pow (Deputy Lead)

Democratic innovations, political psychology, elections, and the politics of Northern Ireland

 

Dr Keith Breen

Contemporary political theory, and democratic politics of the workplace

 

Prof John Barry

Climate breakdown, low carbon energy transitions, and democratic theory and politics

 

Prof John Coakley

Irish politics and democracy, and comparative political institutions

 

Dr Michele Crepaz

Comparative politics, public policy, interest groups, transparency in politics

 

Dr Paula Devine

Director of the annual Northern Ireland Life and Times survey which provides high quality measures of attitudes of Northern Ireland citizens over time

 

Dr Elodie Fabre

Political parties, elections, and devolution

 

Dr Viviane Gravey

Policy making in the EU; post-Brexit governance of the environment in Northern Ireland

 

Prof Muiris MacCarthaigh

Irish politics and democracy, public administration, and public policy

 

Dr Cillian McBride

Deliberative democracy, recognition, and democratic participation

 

Prof Brendan O’Leary

Democratic institutions, Northern Ireland, Ireland and EU politics

 

Prof Rhiannon Turner

Specialist in social psychology and imagined dialogue and the challenge of preserving democratic civility

 

Dr Sarah Wagner

Political parties, party strategies, policy positions, electoral behaviour, comparative politics.

 

Ann Watt

Director of Pivotal, the QUB/UU policy think tank  

 

Dr Lisa Whitten

Research fellow who studies the constitutional future of Northern Ireland