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Shaun McDaid

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20102018
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Biography

Shaun is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology. He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2012 as a Research Fellow, having previously worked at Queen’s University Belfast as a researcher on the Hillsborough Independent Panel report. He took up the post of Lecturer in Politics in 2016. 

He has an MA in the History of International Relations from University College Dublin, and was awarded a PhD in contemporary political history from Queen’s University Belfast in 2010.

Shaun is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and was winner of the Outstanding Early Career Researcher of the Year Award at the University of Huddersfield’s Research and Innovation Awards, 2015-16.

Research Expertise and Interests

  • Political violence 
  • Pathways into and out of terrorism 
  • Conflict resolution in Northern Ireland and elsewhere 
  • Contemporary Britrish and Irish politics 

Keywords

  • Political Violence
  • Terrorism
  • Conflict Resolution

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Research Output 2010 2018

4 Citations

Social movements, structural violence and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland: The role of Loyalist paramilitaries

Ferguson, N., McDaid, S. & McAuley, J. Feb 2018 In : Peace and Conflict. 24, 1, p. 19-26 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
structural violence
Social Movements
violence
peace process
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Truth Commissions after Economic Crises: Political Learning or Blame Game?

Kovras, I., McDaid, S. & Hjalmarsson, R. 1 Feb 2018 In : Political Studies. 66, 1, p. 173-191 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
economic crisis
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Ireland

'72 Hours to Save the Union': John Major and Devolution

McGlynn, C. & McDaid, S. 23 May 2017 An Unsuccessful Prime Minister?: The Premiership of John Major, 1990-97. Hickson, K. & Williams, B. (eds.). London: Biteback Publishing, p. 91-106 16 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Bosnia on the Border?: Republican Violence in Northern Ireland During the 1920s and 1970s

Lewis, M. & McDaid, S. 2017 In : Terrorism and Political Violence. 29, 4, p. 635-655 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Sunningdale and the limits of 'rejectionist' Unionism

Aveyard, S. & McDaid, S. 3 Mar 2017 Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland. McCann, D. & McGrattan, C. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 100-113 14 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter