Professor Michael Keating
Michael Keating graduated from the University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1971 and in 1975 was the first PhD graduate from what is now Glasgow Caledonian University. He received the qualification of Incorporated Linguist (Institute of Linguists) in 1981 and has a doctorate honoris causa from the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (Belgium). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; of the British Academy; of the Academia Europea; and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Keating’s research interests include comparative European politics, territorial politics and nationalism. Recent publications include The Independence of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2009), Rescaling the European State (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the edited volumes Debating Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2017) and A Wealthier, Fairer Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). He has worked with Donatella della Porta on research methods, producing Methods and Approaches in Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2008) which includes a plea for methdological pluralism. The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), edited with David McCrone, considers why European social democracy has not revived following the global financial crisis.
Professor Keating has worked at the University of Essex (1975-6), North Staffordshire Polytechnic (1976-9) and the University of Strathclyde (1979-88). From 1988 until 1999 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, followed by ten years at the European University Institute, Florence and where he was head of department for three years. He has held visiting positions at the Institut d'Etudes Politques de Paris; University of Santiago de Compostela; University of the Basque Country; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; the Norwegian Nobel Institute; Nuffield College, Oxford; University of Grenoble; Autonomous University of Barcelona.
He is presently part-time professor at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, a inter-university consortium of researchers which has received funding from the ESRC's programmes on the Future of the UK and Scotland, and the UK in a Changing Europe. He has been a prominent academic analyst of the Brexit vote, especially in scoping out the constitutional future(s) of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Katy Hayward
Katy Hayward is a political sociologist with a particular focus on conflict/post-conflict transitions. She has a BA (Hons.) in Peace and Conflict Studies (UU Magee, 1999) and a PhD on the subject of the impact of European integration on cross-border relations on the island of Ireland (University College Dublin, 2002). She held a number of post-doctoral research fellowships, including for an EU FP5 project on the EU and Border Conflicts and a Government of Ireland fellowship at the Institute for British and Irish Studies.
She is currently Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, and Senior Research Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her research is actively interdisciplinary, traversing fields of border studies, conflict studies, European studies, and Irish studies. This means that she is particularly well-placed to speak to the implications of Brexit for the island of Ireland, and Northern Ireland in particular. Indeed, she has written and presented widely on this matter, and has given evidence before parliamentary committees in both the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
She is one of the leading political sociologists of the island of Ireland (e.g. co-ed. Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland, 2017), with a high profile in relation to European integration (e.g. co-ed. The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, 2010), political violence (e.g. co-ed. Nationalism and Organised Violence, 2013), and the application of discourse analysis (e.g. co-ed. Political Discourse of Peace and Conflict, 2009). Her recent funded research includes TRUST Tracing Risk and Uncertainty in Security Technology (RCUK, 2013-15), and Conflict in Cities and the Contested State (ESRC, 2010-14). She is currently lead partner for the Irish case study of the Canadian $2.8m SSHRC-funded project 'Borders in Globalization' (PI: UVic, British Columbia). She is keen to draw connections between her research and live socio-political challenges. Outside the University, she is on the Board of Conciliation Resourses, the Centre for Cross Border Studies and the Institute for Conflict Research.
Dr. Etain Tannam
Dr Etain Tannam received her BA in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, her MA in West European Politics from University of Essex and her PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science.She is author of International Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: a comparison of the European Union and United Nations(Basingstoke, Palgrave) and Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland (2014, Basingstoke, Palgrave) and has published various book chapters and international journal articles (see below). Her research interests are in the areas of international organizations and conflict resolution, United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) politics, Northern Ireland and British-Irish relations, Cypriot and Greek-Turkish relations. Recent journal articles have appeared in Ethnopolitics, Government and Opposition, Irish Political Studies and the Review of International Studies. Her previous employment includes posts in the Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin and the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin. Etain has been a prominent analyst of Brexit and in particular its impact on Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement.