and Manchester University Press and articles with Terrorism and Political Violence, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and European Journal of International Studies. For more here is her profile:

Sophie is interested in the role of gender in issues relating to reconciliation, memory and commemoration, as well as the promotion of gender equality in societies following violent conflict. Sophie's publication record includes research with Oxford University Press.🧵3/?.

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and the influence of 'spoiler' groups within peace processes. Previous research includes several political party membership surveys (including the DUP, UUP and Alliance Party) in Northern Ireland. 🧵2/?.

Our next member is Dr Sophie Whiting. Sophie is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath. Her research centres on political parties and power sharing institutions following violent conflict.🧵1/?.

She has published articles in Intelligence and Security, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. She has also presented on the intelligence war in NI on the podcast SpyCast. She is a committee member of the ECPR Standing Group for Political Violence and runs the NASIH writing group.

the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Colombia. Her current research also expands her northern Ireland expertise looking at the UK state actions during the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and legacy issues in Northern Ireland post conflict. 🧵2/3.

The second of our members is Dr Eleanor Leah Williams, a tutor in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University. Eleanor specialises in intelligence studies, ethics and counterterrorism. Her research focuses on state intelligence in the contexts of. 🧵1/?

And finally, a link to his twitter: .

Thomas Leahy & Eleanor Leah Williams, 'The ‘Unforgivable’?: Irish Republican Army (IRA) informers and dealing with Northern Ireland conflict legacy, 1969-2021’ in Intelligence & National Security (2022):

Links to his work: .‘‘Rigorous impartiality’? The UK Government, Amnesties and Northern Ireland Conflict Legacy 1998-2022’, in Laura McAtackney and Máirtín Ó Catháin (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace:

His book "The Intelligence War Against the IRA" (Cambridge, 2020) was awarded the Brian Farrell Political Studies of Ireland Book Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize 2021. 🧵2/?.

The first of our members is Dr Thomas Leahy, a Senior Lecturer in British/Irish Politics/Contemporary History at Cardiff University. His research is on NI conflict, conflict legacy in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Republicanism and Sinn Féin. 🧵1/?.

. and England in particular can share together their research with fellow academics. In the coming weeks we shall we sharing details about our members so you can get to know who we are and what our research is 🧵2/2.

Hello! We are a research network based in the UK. Our aim is to share research, media items and funding opportunities related to Politics/Contemporary history in the ROI and NI. Longer term we hope to become a place where academics studying related themes in Wales/Scotland 🧵1/2.