Academic Research Areas

	Dr Joshua Alley (Assistant Professor) Research Interests International relations; international security; alliance politics; political economy of security; civil conflict; public opinion
	Associate Prof Samuel Brazys (Associate Professor) Research Interests International political economy; aid; trade; development
	Associate Prof James Cross (Associate Professor) Substantive Areas of Interest European Union politics; international organisations; parliamentary politics; legislative decision making; bargaining/negotiations; transparency; social media and online politics; Twitter; interest groups Methodological Approaches Quantitative text analysis; quantitative research methods; game theory and the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)
	Dr Thomas Däubler (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Electoral systems; Parliamentary behaviour; Political parties; Representation
	Dr Pinar Dokumaci (Assistant Professor) Research Interests International relations;Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Feminist Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Politics of Development, Political Disagreements, Feminist Coalitions, Secularism and Islam
	Associate Prof Johan Dornschneider-Elkink (Associate Professor) Research Interests Quantitative research methods; computational methods; electoral behaviour
	Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Violent and nonviolent activism, the Middle East, political psychology, computational modeling
	Associate Prof Alexander Dukalskis (Associate Professor) Research Interests Authoritarian regimes; Asian politics; international human rights
	Associate Prof Vincent Durac (Associate Professor) Research Interests Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; Islamic politics; civil society and democratisation
	Dr Harald Edinger (Teaching Fellow) Research Interests International security; International relations theory; Russian foreign policy; political psychology
	Professor David Farrell (Professor) Research Interests Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative mini-publics, party politics
	Dr Graham Finlay (Lecturer) Research Interests Social and political theory; utilitarian thought; international justice
	Professor Supriya Garikipati Research Interests Political economy of development; gender and development; feminist theory; institutional economics; intra-household bargaining; rural labour markets; India's development challenges
	Professor Niamh Hardiman (Professor) Research Interests Comparative European political economy; Irish politics and public policy; institutional analysis; comparative case-study research methods
	Dr Melanie Hoewer (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Gender, peace and conflict, security, intersectionality, women's rights, Latin American politics and Northern Ireland
	Mr Samuel Johnston (Teaching Fellow) Research Interests Party politics; European Union; nationalism; radical right; ethnoregionalism; Irish politics; mixed methods
	Dr Yoo Sun Jung (Assistant Professor) Research Interests International political economy; trade; foreign direct investment; international organizations; game theory
	Associate Prof Joseph Lacey (Associate Professor) Research Interests Political theory (esp. democratic theory); Political institutions; Comparative European and EU Politics; Political Campaigns
	Dr Stefan Müller (Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow) Research Interests Representation; party competition; political communication; voting behaviour; public opinion; computational social science
	Associate Prof Aidan Regan (Associate Professor) Research Interests Comparative and international political economy; European and Irish politics; business and politics
	Dr Andy Storey (Lecturer) Research Interests Economic development; global European and African political economy
	Dr Tobias Theiler (Lecturer) Research Interests International politics; political psychology; sociology of the state
	Dr Lucia Tiscornia (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Police and criminal violence; transitional justice; mixed-methods research designs
	Professor Ben Tonra (Jean Monnet Professor of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Professor of International Relations) Research Interests International relations; EU foreign, security and defence policy; Irish foreign policy; European and international security issues
	Associate Prof Krishna Vadlamannati (Associate Professor) Research Interests International Development; International Political Economy; Political Economy of Natural Resources; Development Politics of India
	Dr Dawn Walsh (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Conflict resolution, Peace agreements, Institutional Design, International Actors and Peace Processes,Gender and Politics, and the under-representation of women in political institutions
	Professor Patrick Paul Walsh (Professor of International Development Studies) Research Interests International development; industrialization; poverty and inequality; health, education and development
	Dr Alexa Zellentin (Assistant Professor) Research Interests Political theory; liberal neutrality; cultural rights; climate justice