ProfessorJohn Coakley

Nationalism, ethnic conflict, comparative politics, Irish politics. Current research projects The politics of nationalism: comparative perspectives Strategies for the resolution of ethnic conflict Political development and the "national question" in Ireland Preferential voting in ethnically divided societies (with Jon Fraenkel, ANU) The politics of the Irish presidency (with Kevin Rafter, DCU) Significant grant awards in recent years Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences: EUR200,000 (2007-10; with Jennifer Todd; for project entitlted "Breaking the patterns of conflict: the Irish state, the British dimension and the Northern Ireland conflict" Government of Ireland PRTLI programme: member of successful UCD group awarded EUR2.6m under PRTLI4 (2007) to develop the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies Special EU Programmes Body (HEA North-South research funding initiative, strand two): EUR578,000 (2003-06), as leader of research team (other participants: Jennifer Todd, Etain Tannam, Willie Nolan, Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD; John Bradley, ESRI; Elizabeth Meehan, Cathal McCall, Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson, Hastings Donnan, QUB; Robin Wilson, Democratic Dialogue; Andy Pollak, CCBS, Armagh) on project entitled "Mapping frontiers, plotting pathways: routes to north-south cooperation in a divided island". Atlantic Philanthropies: IEP350,000 (1999-2003, to set up Institute for British-Irish Studies; with B Laffan) Government of Ireland PRTLI programme: member of successful UCD group awarded IEP6m under PRTLI1 (1999) and EUR4m under PRTLI3 (2001) to establish and develop the Institute for the Study of Social Change (now the Geary Institute) Many smaller grants