Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Shaun is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology. He joined the University of Huddersfield in 2012. He previously worked at Queen's University Belfast as a researcher for the Hillsborough Independent Panel report, which investigated the circumstances surrounding the football stadium tragedy in 1989.
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 has acted as a consultant on an ESRC-funded study on economic truth commissions (PI: Dr Iosif Kovras), and in June 2019 led an external research workshop in partnership with the GLOBSEC think tank, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), 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
- Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation
- International crises, conflict resolution, and peace processes
- British and Irish politics (especially Northern Ireland)
Keywords
- Political Violence
- Terrorism
- Conflict Resolution
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Research Output 2010 2019
Radicalisation and higher education: Students’ understanding and experiences
McGlynn, C. & McDaid, S., 4 May 2019, In : Terrorism and Political Violence. 31, 3, p. 559-576 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
radicalization
Terrorism
Education
Students
terrorism
The causal role of ideology and Cultural Systems in radicalisation and de-radicalisation
Clubb, G. & McDaid, S., 1 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Critical Realism. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Causal
Ideology
Radicalization
Informing
Being-there
Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation in Higher Education
McGlynn, C. & McDaid, S., 20 Nov 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. 216 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
radicalization
terrorism
education
university
university policy
Social movements, structural violence and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland: The role of Loyalist paramilitaries
Ferguson, N., McDaid, S. & McAuley, J., 1 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
campaign
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
learning
Iceland
Greece
Ireland
Activities 2013 2019
Countering Violent Extremism: Policy and Rights
Shaun McDaid (Speaker)21 Mar 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Universities of Terror? The Prevent Duty in Higher Education
Shaun McDaid (Invited speaker), Catherine McGlynn (Invited speaker)28 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Teachers, Students And The “Prevent Duty” In UK Higher Education
Shaun McDaid (Speaker), Catherine McGlynn (Speaker)6 Sep 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Accountability & Learning after Banking Crisis
Shaun McDaid (Speaker)22 May 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Structural violence and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement: The role of Loyalist Paramilitaries
Shaun McDaid (Speaker), James McAuley (Speaker), Neil Ferguson (Speaker)7 Apr 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
A post-Brexit hard Border has attractions for both DUP and Sinn Féin
5/04/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Former loyalist paramilitaries may show the best way to simple deradicalisation
9/08/17
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Keeping the lid on a boiling pot: the Irish government and the hunger strikes
1/03/16
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment