DrChristie Nicoson

Christie Nicoson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Sutherland School of Law in Professor Aisling Swaine's research project, Coercive In/Justice: Examining Experiences of Coercive Control in Conflict and Transition, funded by the European Research Council. The project works to expands conceptual and applied understanding of gendered harm, and specifically coercive control, in contexts of armed conflict and transitional justice. 

Christie also currently leads the project Fostering Safety and Trauma-Sensitivity in Research with Potential Emotional Impacts (ReSTS), supported by UCD's ReCLAIM initiative and the Wellcome fund, creating the first dialogue, exchange, capacity building and networking among researchers conducting research that has emotional, safety and wellbeing implications, both for the researcher, and research participants. This includes, but is not limited to, research on issues of violence, conflict experience, surviving trauma, genocide, disasters and more. Learn more about the project here.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from Lund University, Sweden (2024). Her research is interdisciplinary and uses constructivist, interpretivist feminist theory and methods, primarily focusing on themes of peace and violence, gender and intersectionality, and sustainability.

Through qualitative methods and in-depth fieldwork, she engages with feminist ethics of care, feminist phenomenology, and knowledge production debates. Christie's research has primarily focused on experiences and processes peace with special attention to climate change phenomena, peacebuilding, as well as food sovereignty and security. She has conducted research in Guam and Puerto Rico, two island territories occupied by the United States.