Richard English#
| Membership Number: | 5943 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-english |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Director, Senator George Mitchell Institute, QUB
- 2016 - present Professor of Politics, QUB
- 2016 - 2021 Pro Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation and Engagement, Queen’s University Belfast
- 2011 - 2016 Wardlaw Professor of Politics & Director, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrew
- 1999 - 2011 Professor of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
- 1995 - 1999 Reader in Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
- 1990 - 1995 Lecturer in Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
Fields of Scholarship
- Radicalism
- Intellectual history
- Political violence
- Irish and British politics
- Political terrorism
- Nationalism
Honours and Awards
- 2018 CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- 2019 Gold Medal in the Social Sciences, Royal Irish Academy
- 2009 Fellow, British Academy
- 2015 Fellow, Royal Edinburgh Society
- 2014 Honorary Fellow, Keble College, Oxford
- 2009 Member, Royal Irish Academy
- 1996 Fellow Royal Historical Society
- 2003 Book of the Year UK Political Studies Association, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
- 2005 Shortlisted, Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
- 2007 Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, Irish Freedom, The History of Nationalism in Ireland
