Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Peace and Conflict Studies
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.
Research students
| PhD Title | Explaining Participation in Insurgency in Balochistan, Pakistan: Trajectories and Patterns of Radicalization |
| Name | Tufail Baloch |
| Years of Study | 2019 - 2025 |
| Country | Pakistan State Scholarship, Pakistan |
| PhD Title | From Control to Conflict: Explaining Change in State-Militia Relationships during Armed Conflict and Civil War |
| Name | Dale Pankhurst |
| Years of Study | 2020 - 2025 |
| Country | NINEDTP ESRC Studentship Award, Northern Ireland |
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 | 2017 - 2021 |
| Country | Italy |
| Current Position | Post-Doc at Oxford University |
| PhD Title | Government Communication and Terrorist Organizations: Towards a Concept of “Crisis Communication” in reaction to Islamic terrorist attacks for Western Governments |
| Name | Dominik Hamm |
| Years of Study | Graduated in 2019 |
| Current Position | Professor and head of department in a university in Lebanon |