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Professor Aughey was awarded in December 2008 a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which funds a
three-year sabbatical during which he will study the changing politics of Britishness. The award is recognition of
Professor Aughey’s sequence of publications on the changing architecture of British politics. He has spoken on
this theme at a number of international conferences this year in Canada, the United States, France, Scotland and
England. Throughout the year, he contributed to a major research project funded by the Nuffield Foundation
and coordinated by the Constitution Unit at University College London, which looked at possible constitutional
changes in the United Kingdom to 2020, and the book from that project, Constitutional Futures 2, is published by
Palgrave in November 2008.
Dr. Gormley-Heenan continues to pursue her research interest in political leadership and the politics of
divided societies. This has resulted in a number of publications in top-rated journals as well as invited contributions
to the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Peace Oxford University Press 2009 and to Developments in British
Politics 9 Palgrave 2009. She has continued to present her work at a number of international conferences in the
last year, including the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) annual conference, held in Pisa, Italy in
September 2007 and the International Studies Association’s annual conference, held in San Francisco, USA in March
2008. She was invited by United Nations Office for Project Services to brief a delegation of Iraqi parliamentarians
on conflict resolution and peace process in Northern Ireland in March 2008 and contributed to a number of
Northern Ireland Office hosted events for parliamentary delegations from Nicaragua and Moldova in the spring of
2008.
Dr. Paul Hainsworth’s book ‘The Extreme Right in Western Europe’ was published by Routledge in March
2008 in the series ‘Making of the Contemporary World’. With Aidan McGarry and Chris Gilligan he published a
report on ‘Elected Representatives/ Political Parties and Minority Ethnic Communities in Northern Ireland’ based
on a grant (£71,000) awarded by the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, administered by the Community
Relations Council (NI).
Dr. Ashe’s book The New Politics of Masculinity was published by Routledge in November 2008 in the series
Innovations in Political Philosophy. In Sept 2007 she extended her analysis of gendered nationalisms in a number
of articles both published and forthcoming. In November 2007 Dr. Ashe was an invited speaker at the Reviewing
Gender, Security and Protection Conference at Bristol University. She was invited in March 2008 to act as guest
editor on a special edition of Socialist History due for publication summer 2009. In April 2008 she presented the
paper ‘Gender and Community-based Restorative Justice’ at the Mid-west Political Science Association Conference
held in Chicago and in May 2008 was an invited speaker at the Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity and ‘Race’ in Collective
Violence and Armed Conflict, Seminar at Warwick University. Recently, two of these papers have been accepted by
peer-reviewed journals and will be published in 2009.
Dr. David Roberts new book, Human Insecurity: Global Structures of Violence was published by Zed in January
2008. He has extended his research further in contributions to three edited books which will be published in
2008: Advanced Lessons in Statebuilding from Cambodia, David Chandler (ed), Statebuilding and Intervention, London:
Routledge, 2008; the second is The Superficiality of Statebuilding in Cambodia: Patronage and Clientelism as Enduring
Forms of Politics, in Roland Paris and Tim Sisk (eds.). Postwar Statebuilding. London: Routledge, 2008; and the third is
Sex and Statebuilding: Gender and Liberal Inequality in the Peacebuilding Process, in Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, (Ed.), Liberal
peace: Value-based External Models and Local Alternatives in Peacebuilding, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Dr.
Roberts has also published four peer-reviewed articles. His international esteem continues to grow, and he was an
invited paper giver at the University of Birmingham, ‘Millennium – Feminist Futures: Gender, Governance and Power:
Interdisciplinary Debates’, 5 July 2008 and at the ‘Voices in the Human Security Debate’ conference at the Applied
Research Centre for Human Security, Coventry University, 23-24 June 2008.
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