Our Research Projects
International Relations and Politics
- ‘Treating People as Objects? Ethics, Security, and the Governance of Mobility’, Bourne, Johnson, Lisle, with others; AHRC
- ‘Trust: Tracing Risk and Uncertainty in Security Technology’, Bourne, Johnson, Lisle, with others; ESRC/AHRC/DSTL Science and Security Programme
- ‘Boats, Borders and Asylum: the Global Politics of Irregular Migration in Maritime Space’, Johnson; ESRC
- ‘Shale Gas in the Global South: Negotiating Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts Across the Karoo Basin, South Africa’, Andreasson; NI DfE Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF)
- ‘Paramilitary-Insurgent Rivalries and the Peace Process in Colombia’, Thomson; NI DfE Global Challenges Research Fund GCRF
- “Youth Opinion and Opportunities for EU Public Diplomacy: Youth Narratives and Perceptions of the EU and EU-Ukraine Relations in Ukraine and the three Baltic States (E-YOUTH)’, Miskimmon;EU Jean Monnet Project
Political Institutions and Behaviour
- Governance for 'a place between’: the Multilevel Dynamics of Implementing the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, Phinnemore, with others
- LINCS (Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society) Doctoral Scholarships Programme, McCall, Bourne, Lisle, Johnson, with others
- ‘Divergence, Dismantling and Contestation: Brexit and the Repoliticisation of UK Environmental Governance?’, Gravey, with others; ESRC Brexit Priority Grant
- ‘What does Brexit Mean for the Future of UK and EU Agri-environment and Fisheries?’, Gravey, with others; Brexit ESRC/Industrial Strategy Challenge
- Public Sector Reform Research Fellowship, MacCarthaigh; Department of Public Expenditure & Reform (Ireland)
- ‘Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past: A Socio-Legal Analysis’, MacCarthaigh, with others; ESRC
- Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Award, McGowan, with others
- 2016-19 Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, McGowan
- ‘Northern Ireland and the Withdrawal Agreement: Anticipating New Governance Challenges and Arrangements’, Phinnemore, with others; NI DfE
- ‘Tensions at the Fringes of the European Union – Regaining the EU's purpose’, Phinnemore, with others; European Commission
- ‘Randomly Selected "Politicians": Transforming Democracy in the Post-Conflict Context’, Coakley, O’Leary, with Garry, McBride; ESRC
- ‘Committee Selection to Mexican Camara de Diputados’, Raymond; NI DfE Global Challenges Research Fund
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Studies
- ‘Exclusion amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities’, Agarin; ESRC
- “Role of Civil Society in Governance of Post-conflict Societies’, Agarin; NI DfE Global Challenge Research Fund
- ‘Electoral Participation in Divided Societies’, Agarin; FRIF
- ‘Power-Sharing and Voting: Conflict, Accountability and Electoral Behaviour at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election’, Coakley, O’Leary, with Garry; ESRC
- ‘The Post-Brexit UK/Ireland Border’, Coakley, with Garry; ESRC Brexit Priority Grant funded extension
- ‘The Post-Brexit UK/Ireland Border’, Coakley, with Garry; ESRC Brexit Priority Grant
- 2018-19 Fulbright Scholarship, McLoughlin
Political Theory
- ‘Roadmaps to Zero Net Emissions in Urban Public Transport’, Barry, with others; Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
- ‘The Place-based Climate Action Network’, Barry, with others; ESRC
- ‘Advancing Creative Circular Economies for Plastics via Technological-Social Transitions (ACCEPT Transitions)’, Barry, with others; Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
- ‘The Energy-Climate-Food Security Nexus: Developing Multi-Stakeholder Deliberative Governance’, Barry with others; ESRC
- ‘Multi-sectoral Approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable Energy and Social Acceptance’, Barry, with others; EU-Horizon 2020
- ‘PACT (Peace and Conflict Transformation)’, Barry, with others; EU Peace IV project
- ‘Participation in Long-term Decision-making’, Kuyper, with others; Academy of Finland
- ‘The Politicization of Global Governance: Democratic Legitimacy in TTIP and TPP’, Kuyper; Riksbanken Jubileumsfond,