About
I was appointed to the Institute as Politics Lecturer in 2019 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2024. I mostly work in the subdiscipline of parliamentary studies, and have a particular interest in consociational power-sharing institutions: their effectiveness, whether and how they can be reformed, and what the public think about these topics. I have explored these questions through the case-study of Northern Ireland. I’m also interested in UK parliamentary studies more broadly, and have co-authored work on legislatures and parliamentarians in Britain.
From 2024 to 2026, I will be working on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project which investigates the interplay between power-sharing, political instability, and minority rights activism in Northern Ireland. Previous projects have been funded by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Prizes or Honours
- Commendation, Brian Farrell Prize for the Best Book Published in Political Science in 2024 (The Political Studies Association of Ireland, 2025)